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Six Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Oil Spill

WASHINGTON -- Of the tens of thousands of people who worked to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, many had competing loyalties and agendas. Unified, they were not. Complicating matters, local, state and federal officials felt enormous pressure to avoid being seen as in cahoots with BP. Because the federal government's...

Obama Bans New East Coast Offshore Drilling: 3 Possible Reasons

(Dec. 1) -- Don't drill, baby, don't drill. Reversing its pre-BP oil spill disaster position, the Obama administration announced today that it will not engage in offshore drilling on the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico region, according to The Associated Press. The original policy, announced three...

BP's Well Is Dead, but Challenges Remain

(Sept. 20) -- The well that spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is finally dead, but residents will be feeling the pain for years to come. A permanent cement plug sealed BP's well nearly 2.5 miles below the sea floor, five agonizing months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst...

BP's Blown-Out Gulf Oil Well Finally Declared Dead

(Sept. 19) -- The well is dead - finally. A permanent cement plug sealed BP's well nearly 2.5 miles below the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, five agonizing months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's...

BP Resumes 'Bottom Kill' to Seal Well by Weekend

(Sept. 14) -- BP's runaway oil well could be sealed off for good by the end of this week, after BP restarted drilling on a relief well that was halted for more than a month during the Gulf of Mexico's hurricane season. BP resumed drilling its relief well Monday for the first time since Aug. 10, when operations were...

Background on bp gulf of mexico

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and continues to seep.

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