{mosads}The BBC reports that BP “wants Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene over the escalating cost of compensating U.S. companies for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster in 2010.”

The New York Times reports from the multi-nation Arctic Council meeting in Sweden.

“The Arctic Council agreed on Wednesday to expand to include six new nations, including China, as observer states, as a changing climate opens the Arctic to increasing economic and political competition,” the paper reports.

The Associated Press explains what’s happening with oil prices.