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Tar balls now found in Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain
Tar balls and oil sheen from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have now made their way into Lake Pontchartrain, the northern boundary of New Orleans.
07/06/2010 04:08 pm -
BP oil spill: How much has bad weather hurt the cleanup?
A week of high winds and waves has interfered with some efforts to contain and clean up the BP oil spill. But key activities have continued with little interruption from bad weather.
07/05/2010 07:02 pm -
BP Gulf oil spill: Turtles to be protected from 'burn boxes'
BP has agreed to allow wildlife rescuers to pluck rare sea turtles – including endangered Kemp's Ridley turtles – out of Gulf oil spill 'burn boxes.'
07/03/2010 12:22 pm -
Decoder Wire On July 4, sing the national anthem and visit ... the memorial buoy?
There are plenty of patriotic monuments to visit this July 4 weekend. One of the weirder ones is a red, white and blue buoy floating in a Baltimore river, marking the spot where Francis Scott Key composed the Star Spangled Banner in 1814.
07/02/2010 05:36 pm -
A Whale to the rescue: Can super-skimmer turn tide of Gulf oil spill?
A Taiwanese shipping mogul will showcase his 1,100-foot A Whale super-skimmer for BP and the White House this weekend, potentially bolstering a chief weakness in the Gulf oil spill cleanup: skimming capacity.
07/02/2010 05:23 pm -
Top five bottlenecks in the Gulf oil spill response
Local officials complain about lack of urgency in the federal Gulf oil spill response. Here are five reasons that the government seems to be dragging its heels.
07/01/2010 08:46 pm -
The Monitor's View Lesson from the Gulf oil spill: Listen to the locals
Up and down the Gulf coast you hear local officials and others complain that they are being ignored in the response to the Gulf oil spill. That must change.
07/01/2010 03:35 pm -
Hurricane Alex pushes oil onto Gulf coast beaches
Hurricane Alex has made Gulf coast beaches particularly vulnerable. "With this weather, we lost all the progress we made," says scientist.
06/30/2010 09:56 am -
Hurricane Alex, first of 2010 season, heads for Texas, Mexico
Hurricane Alex, after slamming Belize as a tropical storm Thursday, was declared a hurricane Tuesday evening. New extended hurricane warning rules are meant to give more precise, earlier warnings.
06/30/2010 12:10 am -
Hurricane season bears down on BP Gulf oil spill
The season’s first tropical weather system is disrupting cleanup efforts and has raised the anxiety level along the Gulf Coast. Where's the emergency storm plan, some officials are asking?
06/29/2010 09:21 pm -
Hurricane Alex (soon to be named) halts skimming operations off Gulf Coast
Hurricane Alex (expected to be named) has churned up rough seas and powerful winds enough to halt oil-skimming operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
06/29/2010 05:43 pm -
Gulf oil spill: The story so far
The effort to contain the Gulf oil spill has had more twists and turns than a mystery novel. This rundown of events so far also shows what is ahead in the struggle to clean up the Gulf of Mexico.
06/29/2010 05:35 pm -
Sea turtles: wildlife experts set to collect and move eggs away from Gulf oil spill
Sea turtles have washed ashore, due to the Gulf oil spill. Now, US wildlife experts are planning to collect and move sea turtle eggs away from the Gulf, trying to save future generations.
06/29/2010 03:40 pm -
Sen. Robert Byrd: King of pork or larger-than-life hero?
Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest serving U.S. senator in history, changed West Virginia forever. Robert Byrd was named 'West Virginian of the 20th century.'
06/28/2010 01:22 pm -
BP CEO Tony Hayward not resigning, according to BP
BP CEO Tony Hayward is not resigning, according to a company spokeswoman, who denied a Russian news agency report on Monday.
06/28/2010 09:42 am -
Robert Byrd, longest-serving member of Congress, died on Monday
West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd had been in Congress since 1953. He won his ninth term to the US Senate in 2006.
06/28/2010 07:35 am -
How BP wants to start over in bid to contain Gulf oil spill
Even before tropical storm Alex came on the scene, BP wanted to revamp how it collects oil from the leaking well at the center of the Gulf oil spill. Those plans could take shape this week.
06/27/2010 12:02 pm -
Gulf oil spill: Could 'toxic storm' make beach towns uninhabitable?
Residents fear mass relocations should a hurricane kick the Gulf oil spill onto resort towns. ‘Hazmat cards’ are a hot commodity among residents, since they could be the key to return.
06/26/2010 11:27 am -
Gulf oil spill: Will a hurricane throw off efforts at the well?
Coast Guard officials are preparing for the possibility that they’ll need to temporarily shut down efforts to deal with the Gulf oil spill as a low-pressure system develops in the western Caribbean.
06/25/2010 08:39 pm -
BP stock plummets with oil spill clean-up at key stage
BP stock struggled as the company's attempts to contain the oil spill was neared a potentially important stage on Friday.
06/25/2010 03:18 pm -
Offshore drilling ban overturned: Judge says he won't put ruling on hold
Offshore drilling ban overturned by a New Orleans federal judge, who told the federal government Thursday he won't put his ruling on hold.
06/24/2010 03:18 pm -
In Gulf oil spill 'war,' cleanup foot soldiers threaten mutiny
Claims problems and mixed messages from the Gulf oil spill unified command structure has local leaders from Pensacola to Plaquemines Parish fuming as the Gulf comes under what some call a 'tarball attack.'
06/24/2010 01:45 pm -
Gulf oil spill worsened by robot collision
Gulf oil spill: A undersea collision involving one of the robots used in the BP gulf oil spill containment effort allowed more oil to gush unchecked into Gulf waters.
06/23/2010 03:28 pm -
Gulf oil spill: Americans pitch their ideas for cleaning it up
Vacuum pumps, oil-eating bacteria, and hair booms are a few of the ideas for dealing with the Gulf oil spill.
06/22/2010 02:57 pm -
Oil drilling ban has Transocean boss Steven Newman criticizing Obama
Oil drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico has Transocean president Steven Newman upset with the Obama administration.
06/22/2010 10:45 am
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