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Coast Guard: New Gulf Oil Spill Will Take More Than a Week to Plug

(July 29) -- When it comes to the oil spills of 2010, sometimes it feels as if we're taking one step forward, two steps back. After initially announcing that the Barataria Bay oil spill might be contained this week, U.S. Coast Guard officials now say that the year's second spill in the Gulf of Mexico will take an...

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...

Background on barataria bay oil spill

[[Image:National Atlas Louisiana east detailed.gif|right|thumb| Barataria Bay [lower right] is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that is located between Empire and Grand Isle, Louisiana [].]]

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