Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Congressional investigators released new documents Monday outlining “serious ...

Getting ready for Thursday's showdown, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has released a bundle of documents that make BP look very shady -- including a BP engineer who called it a "nightmare ...

US House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders plan to ask BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward about five crucial decisions that apparently were made before the company’s deepwater Gulf of Mexico well ...

Laboratory tests of cement and additives closely resembling what BP PLC used in its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico strongly suggest that the mixture was unstable, the chief counsel for US ...

A cement bond log test is the only means available to evaluate the integrity of the cement bond. BP, as the well owner and operator, decided not to run a cement bond log test even though the ...