FACTBOX-Developments in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

June 22 (Reuters) - Here are some developments in BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the largest in U.S. history.

TOP DEVELOPMENT

* U.S. judge rules against Obama administration moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling. Administration says it will appeal. The judge says the scope of the ban is not supported by proper findings of risk. [ID:nN22147432]

* Despite ruling, Interior Department says deepwater exploratory drillers have to meet new safety rules before resuming operations. [ID:nWNA4024]

COMPANY NEWS

* BP Plc (BP.L)(BP.N) Chief Executive Tony Hayward has retreated from daily management of the oil spill crisis; dodges an appearance where a stand-in was heckled. [ID:nN22127525]

* Russia wants clarity on impact of spill on BP Russian joint venture, seeks guarantees the costs of cleanup will not affect TNK-BP. [ID:nLDE65L0UO]

* BP shares in London touch 13-year low. [ID:nLDE65L137] U.S.-listed shares of BP fall about 2 percent as rebound fizzles after judge enjoins drilling moratorium.

POLITICS

* A majority of Americans still support offshore drilling despite the spill, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. [ID:nN22138822]

* Democrats step up attacks on Republicans as friends of the oil industry, using Republican Representative Joe Barton's apology as a fulcrum. [ID: nN22159017]

* Senator John Kerry says President Barack Obama still intends to push for Congress to vote on a proposal to put a price on emitting greenhouse gas. [ID:nN22129447]

GLOBAL IMPACT

* Petrobras foresees tighter offshore drilling standards in Brazil as a result of the spill. Company is undertaking world's most ambitious deepwater drilling program. [ID:nN22127056]

* Oil company executives, analysts at London conference say deepwater wells are crucial to meet the world's energy needs. [ID:nLDE65L1X3]

SPILL CONTAINMENT EFFORTS

* BP says recovery systems collected 25,830 barrels (1,084,860 gallons/4.1 million litres) of crude in 24 hours Monday.

* U.S. and BP are weighing new ways to collect oil from the blown-out Macondo well in case a hurricane disrupts current collection efforts, top U.S. oil spill official says. [ID:nN22520179]

* Alaska expresses concern about sending so much oil-spill containment equipment to the Gulf Coast, worries about vulnerability in event of Alaska disaster. [ID: nN22165880]

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN

* Scientists say as much as one million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions of the Gulf near the spill, stirring worries about a new "dead zone." [ID: nN22218227]

* Experts say oil-spill cleanup workers at risk of short-term lung, liver and kidney damage from the fumes, tend to remove protective gear in summer heat. [ID: nN22156329]

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"The court is unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the (Obama Administration's) findings and the immense scope of the moratorium," Judge Martin Feldman writes in voiding a six-month U.S. moratorium on deepwater drilling. (Compiled by Bruce Nichols; editing by Mohammad Zargham and Chris Wilson)