Oil Leak

Louisiana Oil Geyser: 20-Foot Oil Plume Shooting Up After Hit By Tugboat

msn.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS - (AP) Oil is spewing from a damaged well north of a bay where officials have been fighting the spill from the BP disaster in the Gulf of ...

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While We Wait: Deepwater Photos and Video from Sunday Flyover

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

NewOrleans.com Producer Dwayne Fatheree has posted a new gallery of photos and video from his Deepwater Horizon site flyover yesterday. He writes t...

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For US, Ongoing Battle Against Changing Oil 'Blob'

AP | PAULINE ARRILLAGA | Posted 05.25.2011

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HOUMA, La. — Inside a sprawling command post in southern Louisiana, The Blob is everywhere. It stains the many maps tacked to white walls. Comp...

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The Oil Spill's Impact

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marian Wright Edelman

When Hurricane Katrina hit, it opened people's eyes to a side of race and poverty in our nation that is often hidden. There's no single signature picture of child and family suffering from the BP oil crisis this time around. But the need for help is overwhelming.

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Halliburton May Be Culprit In Oil Rig Explosion

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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This story has been updated Giant oil-services provider Halliburton may be a primary suspect in the investigation into the oil rig explosion that has...

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Gulf Oil Spill May Eclipse Exxon Valdez

CAIN BURDEAU and HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011

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VENICE, La. (AP) -- An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore alo...

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The Gulf Coast Oil Spill: An Ecological Disaster Years in the Making

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janet Ritz

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has now reached the Gulf Coast and will likely eclipse the Exxon Valdez disaster in its impact on the ecology of th...

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The Cost of Offshore Drilling: Photos You Haven't Seen

Philip Radford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Philip Radford

This is why the President's offshore drilling proposal needs to be taken off the table now. 2010-04-29-greenpeaceoilspill.jpg

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Louisiana Oil Spill Gets Worse: New Leak Increases Estimated Spill By Five Times

AP | CAIN BURDEAU and HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011

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VENICE, La. — An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore alo...

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Shen Neng 1, Chinese Ship On Great Barrier Reef, Has Punctured Fuel Tank

The New York Times | KEITH BRADSHER | Posted 05.25.2011

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HONG KONG -- A Chinese coal freighter aground on the Great Barrier Reef has at least one punctured fuel tank, prompting a delicate effort to transfer ...

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ENDLESS SUMMER

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) - A containment cap was capturing more and more of the crude pouring from a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but...

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Sam Stein

BP Director On The Defensive: 'Cutting Corners' Is Not The Way We Do Business (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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BP Managing Director Bob Dudley insisted on Sunday that his company did not "cut-corners" in its operations in the Gulf, despite increasingly clear in...

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Gulf Oil Spill: Two More Days Before BP Knows If Mud Stops Leak

AP | BEN NUCKOLS and GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROBERT, La. — The hypnotic video of mud, gas and oil billowing from the seafloor has become an Internet sensation as Americans watch to see whet...

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Mr. President: Now Is the Time For Clean Energy

Robert Redford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Coast, Green Collar Jobs, Senate, Bp, Kerry Lieberman Climate Bill, Oil Leak, Climate Change, Oil, Deepwater Horizon, Clean Energy, Climate Bill, Petroleum, Green News
Robert Redford

2010-05-19-Robert_redford_clean_energy.jpg I am glad that President Obama announced that he would appoint an independent commission to look at the causes of the blow out. But it is not enough.

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