E2Roundup: Gulf spill impact may be minimal to Texas coast; BP looking at foreign bidders to help spill costs; ‘Climategate’ scientists mostly cleared by new independent review

“BP on Tuesday moved to douse speculation that it was looking for an investor to buy a large piece of the company, saying it wouldn’t issue new stock to raise money to cover the costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.”
 
Hayward arrived in Abu Dhabi after travelling to oil-rich Azerbaijan, where he tried to calm fears BP might sell assets there to help pay for the spill clean up, according to AP. He met there with Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev and also last week with Russian officials in Moscow. “Following those meetings, an official at the company’s Russian joint venture TNK-BP said that firm would consider buying some of BP’s assets if they were put up for sale,” AP reported.


Independent review finds ‘climate-gate’ scientists did not withhold data
 
“Climate scientists at a top UK research unit have emerged from an inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact but with a lack of openness criticized,” BBC reports, likely providing relief to many scientists that hope global uproar will be calmed and climate skeptics will be muted.
 
“Muir Russell’s inquiry is the third major investigation into what some have dubbed ‘Climategate’ — the theft and dissemination of more than 1,000 e-mails exchanged between climate scientists over more than a decade,” AP explains.
 
The Independent Climate Change Email Review found “nothing in the emails to undermine” reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, BBC reports. The report concludes that 
“their rigour and honesty as scientists are not in doubt,” according to BBC. But it also states a “consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness,” and scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit were “too quick to dismiss critics from outside their own circles,” according to BBC.