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The Coast Guard says four people have been flown to a hospital and two may be missing in Gulf oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana. An accident at an oil platform owned by Houston-based energy company, Black Elk Energy, killed two workers and left one more missing off the coast of Louisiana in [...]

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Rescuing oiled sea turtles is a learn-as-you-go process for veterinarians and other scientists. Treatments may change later says a senior veterinarian for Audubon Nature Institute, which houses the center treating 27 oiled sea turtles. SEA TURTLES ON THE MEND … Physical examination Prophylactic antibiotics Vital signs Some get blood samples De-oiled Released to an area [...]

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Kneeling to pick up tar balls on an oil-fouled beach and listening to “heartbreaking stories” of loss, President Obama personally confronted the spreading damage wrought by the crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Breaking off from his three-day, Memorial Day weekend in his home city of Chicago, President barack Obama flew early Friday to [...]

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New video released by BP shows oil and gas erupting from its crippled blowout preventer safety device on the ocean floor. Meantime Interior Secretary Ken Salazar acknowledged his agency had been lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities. These wetlands help to repopulate so much of the Gulf. It’s very distressing for us to see some [...]

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Associated Press reporter Harry Weber is on the ship that carried the containment box that could stop much of the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Weber describes how the box was lowered onto the ruptured well. BP announced the containment box was on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico. The box [...]

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A sense of doom settled over the Gulf Coast as a massive oil slick spewing from a ruptured well kept growing. Experts warned that it could become a nightmare if the Gulf Stream carries it toward the Atlantic. Boothville, La. is home to a large community of Vietnamese fishermen. The oil spill has forced them [...]

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Crews raced to protect the Gulf of Mexico coastline Monday as a remote sub tried to shut off an underwater oil well that’s gushing 42,000 gallons a day from the site of a wrecked drilling platform. Oil is gushing from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico a deep water well exploded about one week [...]

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