Press Releases

• Administration-Wide Response
  
• Administration Bills to BP
  
• Fisheries Closures & Seafood Safety
  
• Gulf Coast Recovery
  
• NRDA
  
• Outreach Activities
  
• Response Command Structure
  
• Response Operations
  
• Science Missions, Analyses, Data, & Reports
  
• Wellhead Containment
  
• Unified Area Command Updates
  
• Wildlife

Gulf Coast Recovery

August 2010

• 16-Aug, "Commerce Secretary Locke Announces $31.3 Million in Restoration and Recovery Grants for Louisiana, Gulf"
  
• 16-Aug, Admiral Allen Announces Deployment of Economic Assessment and Evaluation Teams to Communities Impacted by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
  

June 2010

• 9-Jun, National Incident Commander Admiral Allen Meets with BP Claims Officials to Assert Claims Oversight; Ensure BP Meets Commitment to Restore Gulf Coast Communities
  
• 7-Jun, BP Announces First Payment on Barrier Islands Project for State of Louisiana
  
• 6-Jun, Obama Administration Providing Strong Oversight of BPs Claims Process to Ensure Every Legitimate Claim is Honored and Paid Efficiently
  
• 4-Jun, BP to Pay a Second Month of Loss of Income Claims
  
• 4-Jun, Secretary of Homeland Security; National Incident Commander Submit Letter to House; Senate Leadership
  
• 4-Jun, PDF of letter
  
• 2-Jun, National Incident Commander Admiral Allen directs BP to pay for five additional barrier island projects in Louisiana
  

May 2010

• 31-May, Unified Area Command Warn of Employment Scam
  
• 27-May, Admiral Allen Approves One Section of Louisiana Barrier Island Project Proposal as Part of Federal Oil Spill Response
  
• 25-May, "SBA Approves $571,000 in New Economic Injury Loans for Small Businesses Impacted by Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill"
  
• 12-May, SBA makes economic injury assistance in more La. Parishes
  
• 8-May, "BP establishes new claims center in Foley, Alabama"