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Work resumes on capping runaway Gulf of Mexico oil well

BP vessels that evacuated ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie returned Saturday to the Deepwater Horizon well site in the Gulf of Mexico to resume permanently capping the damaged well after a three-day halt.

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Oil containment effort facing 2 key moments

The battle to contain BP's massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is approaching two critical junctures in coming days that could affect how the months-long catastrophe ends.

688 days ago
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Transcript of Adm. Thad Allen's Saturday briefing on the BP oil spill

This is the transcript of Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen's briefing Saturday with reporters. The transcript was provided by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center.

698 days ago
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Transcript of Adm. Thad Allen's Friday BP oil leak briefing

This is the transcript of Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen's daily briefing on the Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. It was distributed by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center. All brief from Washington.

700 days ago
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Transcript of Adm. Thad Allen's Tuesday BP oil leak briefing

This is the transcript of Adm. Thad Allen's daily press briefing Tuesday, June 22, 2010, on the Deepwater Horizon gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The transcript was distributed by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center.

703 days ago
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MMS blasted for lax offshore drilling scrutiny

The Minerals Management Service, the beleaguered regulator caught in the crosshairs over its faulty scrutiny of BP's runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, has been lax in its inspections of deep-sea drilling, an independent watchdog said Thursday.

708 days ago
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Plan to burn excess oil from BP well raises health questions

Plans to burn hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil from BP's blown-out well are raising new questions about the health and safety of the thousands of workers on rigs and vessels near the spill site.

714 days ago
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As BP's spill efforts stall, oil creeps toward other states

As BP's latest attempt to capture leaking oil from its crippled rig in the Gulf of Mexico stalled Wednesday, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi braced for what officials said could be the first crude oil to hit their beaches.

723 days ago
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Models indicate oil from Gulf spill could threaten Carolinas coast

Oil pulsing from the April 20 BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico could slip into the Gulf Stream's loop current and begin to shoot up the Atlantic coastline by the end of the month — just as thousands of tourists are flocking to beaches along North and South Carolina.

722 days ago
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Schwarzeneggar withdraws support from new California offshore drilling

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger withdrew his support Monday for a controversial new offshore oil drilling project off the Santa Barbara coast in the wake of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

753 days ago
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Responders prepare for Gulf oil spill to hit shore

Teams of oil spill responders are getting ready in case oil from a deepwater oil rig that exploded comes ashore. It's hard to prepare, because it's too early to know where the oil will end up.

757 days ago