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Crews try to protect wildfire from Texas oil spill
Crews worked Sunday to protect two sensitive wildlife areas after a crude oil spill shut down parts of a major southeast Texas port, state Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said. Plastic walls known as booms and oil-sucking ...
- January 26, 2010
Gulf Coast oil spill spreading out of control
An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread ...
- May 1, 2010
Obama talks tough on oil spill
President Barack Obama says his talks with Gulf fishermen and oil spill experts are not an academic exercise. It’s “so I know whose ass to kick.” One target for the presidential foot- Tony Hayward, the embattled chief ...
- June 9, 2010
Oil spill swell to 4 M gallons
Black Hawk helicopters peppered Louisiana's barrier islands with 1-ton sacks of sand Monday to bolster the state's crucial wetlands against an epic oil spill, 4 million gallons and growing, in the Gulf of Mexico. At the ...
- May 12, 2010