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Thursday, September 09, 2010  Alabama seafood market owner David Scott can accept a piece of BP's $20 billion claims fund — relatively fast, easy money — or sue the oil giant for a bigger payday, wait years and risk ending up with nothing.

Friday, June 25, 2010  The local bounty of fresh shrimp and oysters that once kept the only restaurant in this rural Louisiana town bustling can no longer be culled from the Gulf of Mexico because of the massive oil spill that has fouled the water.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010  The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010  A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, saying the government rashly concluded that because one rig failed, the others are in immediate danger, too.

Monday, June 21, 2010  Companies that ferry people and supplies to offshore oil rigs asked a federal judge Monday to lift a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects imposed in the aftermath of the massive Gulf spill.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010  Obama, speaking alone in the State Dining Room of the White House, also announced that BP had voluntarily agreed to establish a $100 million fund to compensate laid-off oil right workers affected by his six-month drilling moratorium.

Thursday, June 10, 2010  The reefs that David Walter makes for anglers to drop into the Gulf of Mexico are fake, but his frustration as he tries to win compensation from BP for lost income is real.