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Oil Spill Cleanup Halted as Storm Approaches

(July 23) -- Work at the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster had come to a standstill before the storm slammed into the Florida coast today with 40 mph winds, sparking fears that the cap may not hold in the storm. The oil company halted drilling on a relief well that's burrowed within 5 feet of the undersea source of...

BP Races to Stanch Oil Spill as Bad Weather Threatens

(July 21) -- Bad weather could force BP to delay efforts to plug the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and reopen the oil well after a week of it being contained. Retired U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill, told The Associated Press that a storm system approaching from the Caribbean...

BP Relief Well Races Toward Oil Source

(July 21) -- Keeping an eye on rising pressure levels under its capped-but-leaking oil well, BP is racing to burrow deep under the seabed to staunch the oil's flow at its source -- where a nearby relief well could reach by this weekend. But as BP nears the final stretch toward permanently plugging its runaway well, fears...

Seep Detected Near BP Well: What Could It Mean for Oil Spill Capping Efforts?

(July 19) -- A mysterious seep detected near the BP well has the government on edge and investors nervous: It could indicate that the Macondo well is damaged in places other than the well head, causing additional oil and gas leaks. The government has allowed the new containment cap to stay on today as tests continue, but...

Obama Cautiously Optimistic After Oil Spill Fix

(July 16) -- President Barack Obama is cautiously optimistic about the BP oil spill now that the runaway well has finally stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, but he says the effort to kill BP's gusher is far from over. "We're moving in the right direction, but I don't want us to get too far ahead of ourselves,"...