Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico: Breaking news for fishermen, home owners and businesses

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Below are updated news items and government documents pertaining to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which took place on April 20, 2010. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has called it “a spill of national significance,” with the Coast Guard estimating it at 5,000 barrels a day, or more than 200,000 gallons of oil spilling into the ocean daily.

U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources response (May 11, 2010)

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services updates (May 11, 2010)

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Adiminstration updates (May 11, 2010)

Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill (May 6, 2010)

Fact sheet on U.S. wildlife and fish affected by the BP oil spill

EPA: Daily Response to BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Remarks by the President on Oil Spill Venice, Louisiana (May 2, 2010)

NOAA Closes Commercial and Recreational Fishing in Oil-Affected Portion of Gulf of Mexico (May 2, 2010)

President's statement on the economy and the oil spill (April 30, 2010)

Officials Assail Oil Company Over Response to Gulf Spill (New York Times, April, 30, 2010)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration responds (April 29, 2010)

Press briefing on the BP oil spill in the Gulf (April 29, 2010)

Who's Responsible for Gulf Oil Spill? VIDEO (April 28,2010)

Secretary Napolitano and Secretary Salazar Launch Full Investigation (April 27, 2010)

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In April 2010, our lawyers, together with a consortium of law firms in the U.S., filed lawsuits in response to the BP oil spill. The complaints (Case Numbers 3:10-cv-00137-MCR-EMT and 2:10-cv-01229-KDE-SS) seek to recover damages on behalf of our clients whose businesses and properties were affected by the oil spill.

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