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The World's Current Oil Spills, By the Numbers

(July 28) -- Oil, oil everywhere. It seems like the earth is having a hard time keeping it below ground these days. With one active leak (in Barataria Bay, La.), two more still causing major problems (on the Kalamazoo River in Michigan and, of course, in the Gulf of Mexico) and one recently cleaned-up but disastrous...

Crews Fight to Contain New Leak Near Gulf of Mexico

(July 27) -- Not again! A new oil leak has hit the Gulf Coast Tuesday after a small boat collided with a wellhead in Bayou St. Dennis, just north of the ecologically diverse Barataria Bay in Louisiana. There were no reported injuries, but morale in nearby Jefferson Parish, where oil from BP's well has already caused...

New Gulf Oil Leak in Pictures

(July 27) -- Just as BP and the country were getting used to the thought of having finally contained the country's worst oil spill (at least temporarily), a boating accident in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday opened a new leak in another company's wellhead, spraying a 100-foot-high plume of natural gas into the air and water...

Kalamazoo Oil Spill Declared State of Emergency

(July 27) -- The last thing the United States needs at this point is yet another oil spill. But that's just what it got this week, times two. On Monday, a 30-inch oil pipeline sprang a leak in Kalamazoo County, Mich., and it has now released more than 800,000 gallons of oil into Talmadge Creek, a tributary that flows...