Gulf Oil

Gulf Oil Sheen's Likely Source Revealed

AP | Posted 04.17.2012

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal agency says it has confirmed a natural seep of oil from the Gulf of Mexico near where a large oil sheen was spotted las...

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18 Months Later: Drilling Deeper Than Ever

AP | JONATHAN FAHEY | Posted 02.29.2012

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ALAMINOS CANYON BLOCK 857, GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deep...

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The Worst And Best Of Times: Arrogance And Resistance

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 07.25.2011

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The worst danger facing the world today is the arrogance of powerful men and institutions toward the warp and woof of human communities and the weave of life-forms on our planet.

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What We Still Haven't Learned From the Exxon Valdez Disaster

Regan Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the Exxon Valdez spill was a very different spill than the Deepwater Horizon disaster, there are some striking similarities that suggest that we didn't learn our lessons from the Exxon Valdez disaster.

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The Gulf and the Environment: Redefining the Relationship

Philippe Cousteau | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the potential of billions of dollars flowing into the Gulf from the fines BP will have to pay, there is a realization that, if done right, the money could support local communities to restore the environment for the long-term.

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BP to Feinberg: Stop Paying People So Much

Rocky Kistner | Posted 05.25.2011

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BP says Feinberg's estimates of the damage caused by the historic blowout were way too pessimistic and that his calculations for payments to impacted Gulf residents are off base and inaccurate.

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Massive Stretches Of Oil Spotted In Gulf Of Mexico

Nola.com | Matthew Hinton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf ...

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How The Gulf Oil Spill Will Affect Chicago Diners

Chicago News Cooperative | BEN GOLDBERGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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On a damp morning last Friday, Maureen Fitzgerald pulled four fish out of a paper bag. "This looks beautiful," she said, pointing to the clear eyes of...

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A Beach Walk With the Ghosts of Exxon Valdez (PHOTOS)

Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker) | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's been 21 years since the spill, and here is a place exposed to air, wave action, sun, wind, rain, and snow, and it still looks like the site of a horrible ecological disaster that could have happened yesterday.

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Gulf Oil Cleanup: 100-Ton Concrete-And-Steel Contraption Hauled To Well

AP | NOAKI SCHWARTZ and HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 we...

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Pepsi Aims To Refresh The Damaged Gulf

AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Pepsi is expanding its popular Refresh Project charitable program to help communities affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...

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'We Beat the Oil on Race Day': Resilience in Mobile, Alabama

Sarah Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hurricane Katrina created a sense of both self-sufficiency and skepticism in Mobile, Alabama that still exists today. Down on this coast, locals hesitate to believe that any support from either the government or BP is on its way.

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Missing the Real Drama of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout

Bill McKibben | Posted 05.25.2011

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The questions that the Gulf spill raises go well beyond: How big an idiot is Tony Hayward? The questions are more like: How out of balance with the natural world are we?

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Memorial Day 2010 News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Willie Nelson had his long hair cut off. Immediately regretted it when he found out he couldn't smoke it.

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Gulf Oil Spill: Obama Administration Insists Its Options Are Limited When It Comes To BP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Under heat that it's simply not motivating enough resources to deal with the increasingly catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf, the administration insis...

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Obama Ally Accuses GOP Of Doing Big Oil's Bidding After Gulf Spill (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A group allied with the Obama White House released a new television advertisement Wednesday attacking Republicans for foot-dragging on energy legislat...

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Oil Spill Hearings Bring Out the Political Drama: 'Spill, Baby, Spill'

Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Gulf Coast oil spill engendered its share of Capitol Hill drama Tuesday, beginning with the moment executives from BP, Transocean and Halliburton ...

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Hurricane Ike Delays Gulf Oil Production Again, Prices Rise

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Crude oil prices finished modestly higher Monday, but only after seesawing wildly as nervous traders watched Hurricane Ike approach t...

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