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Crews Fight to Contain New Leak Near Gulf of Mexico

By Carl FranzenJul 28th 2010 – 10:00AM
Patrick Semansky, AP

Patrick Semansky, AP

(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...

More Than 27,000 Abandoned Wells in Gulf

Jul 7th 2010 – 6:53AM
Joe Raedle, Getty Images

Joe Raedle, Getty Images

(July 7) -- More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one - not industry, not government - is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows. The oldest of these wells were...

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