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Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion off Louisiana coast
A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough...
Posted on 9/2/10 at 4:39 PM
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Trouble in the Gulf Part 3: Regaining Paradise
As you read this, the first of perhaps 10 million waterfowl that winter in Louisiana's coastal wetlands are flying south. Each year, fewer acres of marsh and barrier-island habitat await them. This ye...
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ELCA presiding bishop calls oil spill in Gulf 'heartbreaking and infuriating'
According to a press release from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: "The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is 'heartbreaking and infuriating,' wrote the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presidin...
Posted on 6/28/10 at 5:33 AM
More blog posts about oil spill

State panel calls for pipeline safety improvements

A state panel created to help prevent a repeat of last year's oil spill into the Yellowstone River is calling for technology upgrades by companies and more money for pipeline inspectors.

May 28, 2012

BP begins to put spill behind it with settlement

NEW YORK (AP) — BP's settlement deal with thousands of victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a major step toward putting the worst oil spill in U.S. history behind it.

March 03, 2012

Experts: US ill-prepared for oil spill off Cuba

The U.S. is not ready to handle an oil spill if drilling off the Cuban coast should go awry but can be better prepared with monitoring systems and other basic steps, experts told government officials Monday.

January 30, 2012

Feds: bluefin tuna probably OK after BP oil spill

WASHINGTON — Last year's BP oil spill probably won't push the troubled bluefin tuna Gulf of Mexico population over the edge as some scientists had worried, a federal analysis shows.

By By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press , December 04, 2011

New evidence cites more BP oil spill mistakes

Interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press show a BP scientist identified a previously unreported deposit of flammable gas that could have played a role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But the oil giant failed to divulge the finding to government investigators for at least a year.

September 13, 2011

Oil spill cleanup turns up trove of Indian relics

Cleanup after the BP oil spill has turned up dozens of sites where archaeologists are finding human and animal bones, pottery and primitive weapons left behind by pre-historic Indian settlements — a trove of new clues about the Gulf Coast's mound dwellers more than 1,300 years ago. But they also fear the remains could be damaged by oil or lost to erosion before they can be fully studied.

July 16, 2011

Montana to split from oil spill command post

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer says state officials are leaving a command post set up to coordinate the response to an Exxon Mobil oil spill because the company has blocked public access to the site.

July 07, 2011

BP is looking strong a year later

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It's hard to tell that just a year ago BP was reeling from financial havoc and an American public out for blood.

By By Harry R. Weber, The Associated Press , April 18, 2011

Panel: Massive oil spill could happen again

January 05, 2011

Panel: Massive oil spill could happen again

WASHINGTON — Decisions intended to save time and money created an unreasonable amount of risk that triggered the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a disaster that could happen again without significant reforms by industry and government, the presidential panel investigating the BP blowout concluded Wednesday.

By By Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press , January 05, 2011

New BP challenge to spill size could affect fine

BP is mounting a new challenge to the U.S. government's estimates of how much oil flowed from the runaway well deep below the Gulf of Mexico, an argument that could reduce by billions of dollars the federal pollution fines it faces for the largest offshore oil spill in history.

December 04, 2010

Spill panel details goofs, hero in ending gusher

WASHINGTON (AP) — A single picture from a cell phone camera may have saved the Gulf of Mexico from a few more weeks — if not months — of oil gushing from the BP well.

November 22, 2010

Trinidad oil company denies spill reached ocean

Trinidad's petroleum company said Friday that crews are cleaning up a spill that seeped into rivers, but denied claims by fishermen that the oil had reached the ocean.

August 13, 2010

AIG pays $23M in Gulf spill claims, total may rise

Taxpayers took another hit, this one indirect, from the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion through insurance claims related to the disaster.

August 06, 2010

Crush of mud finally plugs BP's well in the Gulf

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the end, it was a crush of mud that finally plugged the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed a gusher of oil and a summer of misery along the Gulf Coast.

August 04, 2010

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