Globs of crude oil are washing up on the shores of Kabletown in this battle to determine which craptastic corporation moves to tomorrow’s Worst Company In America death match! [More]
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Here They Are: Your Worst Company In America Final Four!
By 4.12.11
Thirty-two entered. Four remain. And in the end, there can be only one. [More]
Worst Company In America Elite 8: BP Vs. WellPoint
By 4.8.11
A WCIA tournament vet faces everyone’s least-favorite newcomer in today’s Elite 8 bloodbath. [More]
Surprise! BP Would Rather Pay A Few Million In Fines Than Billions
By 4.7.11
Oh, silly BP! Of course you want to be fined by the day and not by the millions and millions of gallons of oil you spilled into the Gulf of Mexico! The big bad oil guys have asked the U.S. government to levy their fines for the April 20, 2010 oil spilled based on the days the Deepwater Horizon rig spewed black stuff into the water, not how many barrels of crude oil it gushed. [More]
Say Hello To Your Worst Company In America Elite 8!
By 4.6.11
Two rounds of WCIA bloodshed are in the book and the beaten bodies of 24 multi-billion dollar companies are being hauled off to be burned on a pyre. But for those businesses left standing — let’s call them the Elite 8 — the parade of pain marches on. [More]
Report Says BP Wants To Get Back To Drilling
By 4.3.11
According to a new report, BP is asking permission from U.S. regulators to continue its drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico. [More]
Worst Company In America Sweet 16: BP Vs. Time Warner Cable
By 3.31.11
It’s the oiler versus the spoiler in today’s WCIA Sweet 16 match-up! [More]
Meet Your Worst Company In America Sweet 16!
By 3.25.11
After eight days and 16 first round battles, the WCIA steel cage is littered with the bones of those companies not crappy enough to continue on in the tournament. But the thrill of victory is fleeting for the remaining combatants, all of whom must square off again if they hope of crowning themselves the Worst Company In America! [More]
Worst Company In America Round One: BP Vs. Toyota
By 3.21.11
Did you get enough basketball this weekend? Good, because now it’s back to the more important tournament. And in today’s early bout, two international titans of terrible step into the ring to square off! [More]
BP's CEO Is Super Sorry About That Oil Spill
By 3.9.11
BP Chief Executive Robert Dudley inherited quite a bit of a mess from former CEO Tony Hayward, he of the loose lips, in the the form of last year’s terrible oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But Dudley wants everyone to know that he’s totally sorry. [More]
BP Spilled $5 Billion In Losses Last Year
By 2.2.11
Profit-machine BP took a $4.9 billion loss last year, thanks to an oil spill you may have heard about. The setback snapped the oil giant’s 18-year streak of turning profits, but the loss isn’t so bad when you consider the company set aside $40.9 billion into the Gulf of Mexico so far to clean up the spill. [More]
So Whatever Happened To All That Oil Spilled In The Gulf Anyway?
By 1.4.11
Remember all that oil that BP spilled into the Gulf this summer? Whatever became of it? Well, good news. Bacteria ate most of it, reports Slate, and the other stuff was skimmed back up, evaporated, burned off, or it got diluted out into the seas. [More]
Getting To Know You: All About The New Friends We Made In 2010
By 12.31.10
Behind every buzzworthy headline of the past year has been someone in charge, someone to blame, or just someone to laugh at and talk about. From the debacle of Toyota’s millions of recalled automobiles, to a fed-up flight attendant with a flair for drama, we’ve become familiar with a few new faces in 2010, for better or for worse. [More]
BP Dumps Huge Oil Slick On Bank Of America To Earn Title Of 2010's Biggest Business Debacle
By 12.30.10
In what will probably come as a surprise to no one, Consumerist readers have overwhelmingly selected the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the biggest business debacle of 2010. [More]
Vote Now For The Biggest Business Debacle Of 2010
By 12.29.10
We asked for your input in nominating the biggest business screw-ups of the year and you responded. Now is your chance to vote for a loser from the final five nominees. [More]
Commission Cites Halliburton For Lax Pre Oil-Spill Tests
By 10.29.10
BP insisted that the blowout and resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t all its fault, and the government agrees. [More]
See The Show BP Would Rather Blot Out With Black Gook
By 10.26.10
Catch the FRONTLINE doc on the BP Gulf spill on PBS tonight. A newly released excerpt shows how the oil giant behaved in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, pushing aging infrastructure that was supposed to only last until 1987 for years past its limits. [More]
Frontline Investigates BP's Internal Culture Of Wet Greed And Hot Fear
By 10.15.10
Frontline digs into the muck of BP’s corporate culture leading up to the biggest environmental disaster in American history in a new hard-hitting investigation. Through interviews with current and former employees and regulators and experts, Frontline probes the internal environment of wet greed and hot fear that spawned the oily monster ravaging the Gulf. Catch “The Spill” on Oct 26. Here’s a preview: [More]
