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deepwater horizon News

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  • 04/24/12 Feds make 1st arrest in BP oil spill case, say... Source: The Mississippi Press - Pascagoula MS The Justice Department said on Tuesday it filed the first criminal charges in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, accusing a former BP engineer of destroying evidence.
  • 04/20/12 The strange history of April 20, from Hitler to... Source: New York Daily News - New York NY In terms of world history, it would be hard to compete with April 20 for the title of Worst Day of the Year. I don't quite know why, and I think any explanation of the day;s significance would be incomplete.
  • 03/27/12 Caribbean bottlenose dolphins severely ill after spill Source: The Earth Times Bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncates ) are common off Louisiana - or they were.

Background on deepwater horizon

Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore oil drilling rig owned by Transocean.

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