BP says it has already spent $2 billion on the Gulf oil spill, and it wants the well's shit talking co-owners Anadarko Petroleum to chip in. At this rate, that $50 billion fund will be gone real fast. [AP, Getty]

Scientists are studying the carcass of a 25-foot "sub-adult" sperm whale found in the Gulf of Mexico to see if it's oil spill-related. We all knew local wildlife would be devastated, but who knew it would all happen so fast?

What's the worst case scenario for the BP oil spill? How about the horrifying possibility of leaks in the pipe below the sea floor—leaks that could open up a "gusher... directly into the oil deposit"?

New government estimates place the rate of flow from the Deepwater Horizon leak at 60,000 barrels of oil a day.

A new series of emails released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee reveals specific places where BP decided to cut costs and sacrifice safety—including an email describing the soon-to-explode rig as a "nightmare well."

These days we use celebrities for everything, so why not get one to clean up one of our greatest natural disasters? Kevin Costner's gizmo that separates oil from water might be just what BP needs to save Louisiana's shores.

[With investors afraid of Barack Obama's new found anger, BP's share price dropped another 11% in early trading on the London FTSE. BP says, "The company is not aware of any reason which justifies this share price movement." Image: AP]

There's another leak in the Gulf of Mexico. And it's supposedly been going on since April. It's unrelated to the BP spill; it's coming from another rig off the coast of Louisiana. But a 10 mile-long slick is now visible.

East Coast: Jealous of all that free oil Louisiana is getting? No worries! The National Center for Atmospheric Research says that the huge oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could hit the East Coast in a matter of weeks.

The first step of BP's latest attempt to stop their oil leak has succeeded.

Today BP is trying a "top kill" to stop the oil leaking into the Gulf. The man tasked with doing it, Pat Campbell, has some words for the well: "I'm here, I'm touching you, I'm telling you you're dead."

First the company lied was wrong about how much oil was leaking into the Gulf. Now it is saying that the siphoning tube being used is recovering over 30% less oil than was previously claimed. Surprised? [Guardian, Getty]

The owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Transocean, held survivors for nearly two days after the explosion with no outside contact at all. Was it an attempt to exhaust workers so they would sign away the company's liability?

BP's oil isn't leaking "four or fives times" faster than everyone thought—at a rate of 4 million gallons per day, it's twenty times worse than BP thought. And the chemical they're using to "disperse" it is toxic, too.

When a crew from CBS News tried to film an oil-covered beach in Louisiana, they were stopped and threatened with arrest by a group of BP contractors and members of the Coast Guard. "This is BP's rules, it's not ours."

Remember the "loop current" that threatened to pull the oil spill over to Florida and up the East Coast? It might be working. Park Rangers at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park found 20 tarballs on the beach yesterday. [PBP, Getty]

Good news: BP says that the siphoning tube is starting to work. Bad news: The spill is heading closer to a "loop current" that would pull it into the Atlantic Ocean and up the East Coast. [WSJ, AP, Getty]

BP, those cheeky scamps, are always coming up with madcap ways to quell that oil spill. Today's effort involved threading a tube into the leaking well and just, like, SUCKING, the oil up to the surface. It failed. [AP]

First it was a big stopper, then they wanted to, like, bung stuff in the leaking well, then it was a smaller stopper. Now BP plan to stop the oil by, you know, putting a tube in. [AP]

So it turns out that the widely-accepted figure of 5,000 barrels leaking every day into the Gulf is more like 25,000, and BP is accused of failing to use standard techniques to find an accurate number. Shocking! [NYT]