Oil Plume

Huge Oil Plume Isn't Going Away, Could Take Months To Degrade After BP Spill

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for m...

Dan Froomkin

Questions Mount About White House's Overly Rosy Report On Oil Spill

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Two congressmen on Thursday questioned why the Obama administration made a major announcement about what happened to the oil in the Gulf of Mexico ear...

BP Trustworthy? It's Laughworthy!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Rick Horowitz

"We're trying to be absolutely as transparent as we can." ~ Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, to Meredith Vieira "It may be down to how y...

Underwater Oil Plumes In Gulf EXPOSED By ABC News (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

ABC News has new video showing oil plumes 40 miles out in the ocean, just southwest of the Deepwater Horizon. So far, three large underwater islands o...

Underwater Oil Plumes Disputed By BP CEO Tony Hayward

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 05.25.2011

VENICE, La. — Disputing scientists' claims of large oil plumes suspended underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC's chief executive on Sunday sa...

Gulf Oil Spill: 22-Mile Underwater Plume Approaches Rich Waters, Could Poison Food Chain

AP | MATTHEW BROWN and JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW ORLEANS — A thick, 22-mile plume of oil discovered by researchers off the BP spill site was nearing an underwater canyon, where it could poi...

Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Discover Massive New Sea Oil Plume

AP | MATTHEW BROWN and JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW ORLEANS — Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 2...

Jason Linkins

Jonathan Katz: Member Of Science Team Tasked With Gulf Solution Is A Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE: And now, Katz has been dropped from the oil spill task force. -------- Wow. So, remember earlier when I made note of the team of scientists ...

Jason Linkins

Gulf Oil Spill: Obama Assembles A Team Of Scientists To Fix It

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

For now, oil continues a-gush into the Gulf of Mexico. BP is attempting to stem the flow of oil using a "mile-long tube" to siphon the crude onto awa...

Giant Oil Plumes Found In Gulf Depths

AP/Huffington Post | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 05.25.2011

ROBERT, La. -- Oil from a blown-out well is forming huge underwater plumes below a visible slick in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists said as BP wrestled...