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Feds: Oil, gas leaking from cap on ruptured well
Associated Press - Sun Jul 18, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Oil and gas are leaking from the cap on BP's ruptured oil well but the cork will stay in place for now, the federal government's point man on the spill said Monday. More»

Tar balls wash up on Atlantic side - Cocoa Beach
WESH-TV - Tue Jul 6, 2010
COCOA BEACH, Florida - Tests are out on more than a dozen tar balls that have been found in a 2- to 3-mile stretch of Cocoa Beach during the past two days, according to Brevard County authorities. More»

Oil seeps into New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain
Associated Press - Mon Jul 5, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans, which managed to escape the oil from the BP spill for more than two months, can't hide any longer. More»

After Gulf swimmers report illness, questions about opening a beach
Christian Science Monitor - Fri Jul 2, 2010
Hundreds of beachgoers told health officials they felt unwell after swimming last week at oil spill-affected Pensacola Beach, Florida. More»

Volunteers ready but left out of spill cleanup
Associated Press - Fri Jul 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico. More»

Boycott Big Oil? Prepare to give up your lifestyle
Associated Press - Fri Jun 11, 2010
WASHINGTON - Has the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico got you so mad you're ready to quit Big Oil? Ready to park the car and take up bike-riding or walking? Well, your bike and your sneakers have petroleum products in them. More»

BP's share price has collapsed more than 40%
AFP - Wed Jun 9, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - BP's misery deepened Thursday as investors took flight for fear President Barack Obama will exact a heavy price from the British energy giant over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. More»

Gulf states tracking oil-related illnesses
CNN - Wed Jun 9, 2010
States are tracking the health consequences of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, including respiratory and skin irritation problems in Louisiana and Alabama, health officials said. More»

Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast
CNN - Tue Jun 8, 2010
The morning the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, a BP executive and a Transocean official argued over how to proceed with the drilling, rig survivors told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview. More»

Many Gulf federal judges have oil links
Associated Press - Sat Jun 5, 2010
MIAMI - More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows. More»

Lab tests confirm underwater layers of Gulf oil
Associated Press - Thu Jun 3, 2010
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Scientists with the University of South Florida say laboratory tests have confirmed that oil from a spewing Gulf of Mexico well has accumulated in at least two extensive plumes deep underwater. More»

Oil confirmed on Pensacola beaches
Associated Press - Thu Jun 3, 2010
For days, CNN's small army of reporters, photographers and producers has been repositioning toward Florida as oil was expected to come ashore in the Sunshine State. More»

Scientists warn of unseen deepwater oil disaster
Associated Press - Sun May 30, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Independent scientists and government officials say there's a disaster we can't see in the Gulf of Mexico's mysterious depths, the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton. More»

BP: What Oil Plumes?
Huffington Post - Sun May 30, 2010
VENICE, Louisiana - Disputing scientists' claims of large oil plumes suspended underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC's chief executive on Sunday said the company has largely narrowed the focus of its cleanup to surface slicks rolling into Louisiana's coastal marshes. More»

Scientist locates another vast oil plume in the gulf
Washington Post - Fri May 28, 2010
A day after scientists reported finding a huge "plume" of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction. More»

Oil rig inspectors took company gifts, watchdog group finds
CNN - Mon May 24, 2010
Washington - Federal inspectors overseeing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico accepted meals and tickets to sporting events from companies they monitored, the Interior Department's inspector general concluded in a report released Wednesday. More»

Couple worries 'firewater' could cause house to explode
KDVR-TV - Mon May 24, 2010
FORT LUPTON, Colorado - They say they are living with a ticking time bomb: Karen Androvich and her husband have so much methane gas in their water their house could explode. More»

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible
Associated Press - Sat May 22, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. More»

Massive underwater oil plumes found off US Gulf Coast
BBC - Sat May 15, 2010
Scientists have found vast underwater plumes of oil, one 10 miles (16km) long and a mile wide, in the Gulf of Mexico following last month's rig explosion. More»

Bubble of methane triggered rig blast
Associated Press - Fri May 7, 2010
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation. More»

Feds let BP avoid filing blowout plan for Gulf rig
Associated Press - Wed May 5, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Petrochemical giant BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two years ago to exempt certain projects in the central Gulf region, according to an Associated Press review of official records. More»

Oil rig explodes off Louisiana coast; 11 missing
Associated Press - Tue Apr 20, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing. More»

World Oil Reserves at 'Tipping Point'
Science Daily - Sat Mar 27, 2010
The world's capacity to meet projected future oil demand is at a tipping point, according to research by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. More»

German Cargo Ships Pass Through 'Arctic Passage'
Associated Press - Fri Sep 11, 2009
FRANKFURT - Two German merchant ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South Korea along Russia's Arctic coast to Siberia. More»

Arctic may hold twice the oil previously found there
CNN - Wed May 27, 2009
Continental shelves beneath the retreating polar ice caps of the Arctic may hold almost double the amount of oil previously found in the region, scientists say. More»

Climate change could be even worse than feared
AFP - Sat Feb 14, 2009
CHICAGO - It seems the dire warnings about future devastation sparked by global warming have not been dire enough, top climate scientists warned Saturday. More»

Russia's Gazprom cuts all gas supplies to Ukraine
Associated Press - Wed Dec 31, 2008
MOSCOW - Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom cut all natural gas supplies to Ukraine on Thursday morning after talks broke down over payments for past shipments and a new energy price contract for 2009. More»

Exxon Mobil posts biggest US quarterly profit ever
Associated Press - Wed Oct 29, 2008
HOUSTON, Texas - Exxon Mobil Corp, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a US corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter. More»

Leaked Memos tell officials to ignore global-warming impact
McClatchy Newspapers - Mon Oct 13, 2008
WASHINGTON - New legal memos by top Bush administration officials say that the Endangered Species Act can't be used to protect animals and their habitats from climate change by regulating specific sources of greenhouse gas emissions, the cause of global warming. More»

Whistleblower: Oil watchdog agency 'cult of corruption'
CNN - Mon Oct 13, 2008
HONOLULU, Hawaii - Bobby Maxwell kept a close eye on the oil industry for more than 20 years as a government auditor. More»

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