White House stalls oil-slick research

摘要

Plans to distribute monies from BP's ten-year Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) have been thrown into turmoil by a last-minute edict from the White House.rnOn 15 June, BP announced that it would distribute US$25 million in fast-track funding across three research institutions in its first steprntowards fulfilling a $500-million pledge for high-priority studies to assess environmental damage from the oil spill.