‘Oil Spill’ Archives
Lead US Spill Agency Running Short of Cash, Rep. Oberstar Says
The Coast Guard could run out of money for its emergency response to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill as soon as next week, the House chairman with jurisdiction over the agency said today.Lead US Spill Agency Running Short of Cash, Rep. Oberstar Says
Gulf oil spill: Florida fears contamination
A sunny afternoon on the coast of West Florida turned gloomy Thursday with the dread that a strong wind could push sticky, toxic petroleum onto its sugar-sand beaches and wildlife-rich wetlands. It felt like the sobering moments before a hurricane’s impact: Florida's governor, attorney general and chief financial officer and a U.S. senator [...]
Gulf oil spill has triggered 71 health complaints, state report …
By John Pope, The Times-PicayuneJune 08, 2010, 8:45PMSeventy-one people, 50 of them workers, have complained of health problems related to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a report from the state Department of Health and Hospitals.Of the workers, who were on the BP rig or part of the cleanup, the department's report shows [...]
Florida hotels fend off concerns about oil spill; offer volunteer …
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BP Oil Spill Live Feed Update: BP Contains Oil Spill in Gulf …
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Canada assists US in oil spill cleanup in Mexico Gulf
OTTAWA, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea and Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State (Agriculture) Jean-Pierre Blackburn announced that the United States has accepted an offer from the Government of Canada to help contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a press release said on Monday. The [...]
BP CEO's ads apologizing for the Gulf oil spill earn more …
BP CEO's ads apologizing for the Gulf oil spill earn more ...
Obama taps inner memoirist to tell BP oil spill story
Atlanta As tarballs sullied Florida's bone-white beaches and a runaway well continued to pump below the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama tried on Saturday to transform a perception of himself as an academic stoic into one of Clintonesque empathy to repair a slipping bond with the American people over the BP oil spill. Instead of Clinton's "I [...]
If oil spill is 'an act of God,' BP merits divine retribution
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) delivered the startling revelation last week that the BP oil spill was caused not by a faulty blowout preventer but by the Almighty Himself. He explained the spill to an Oklahoma City radio station like this: "Acts of God are acts of God." With this curious theology, Cole has joined the ministry of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a [...]
