Tropical storm Alex was expected to become a hurricane on Tuesday, delaying BP Plc’s (BP.L) (BP.N) efforts to increase siphoning capacity at the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico where some companies evacuated workers. Alex was forecast to move slowly away from the Yucatan Peninsula over southern Gulf waters and curl northwest to make a second landfall in ... Read More »
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Oil spill threatens to roil US-British relations
WASHINGTON — The leaking oil that has tainted the Gulf of Mexico is also threatening the political shores on both sides of the Atlantic, with a British company the villain. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron planned to discuss the environmental catastrophe over the telephone on Saturday, hoping to ease what has become a growing rift over ... Read More »