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BP and the Obama administration offered significantly differing views Sunday on whether the capped Gulf of Mexico oil well will have to be reopened, a contradiction that may be an effort by the oil giant to avoid blame if crude starts spewing again...
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Under the rule, reporters or anyone else wishing to get within 65 feet of a cleanup operation need to get permission from the Coast Guard Captain of the Port of New Orleans.
A "willful" violation of the new rule could result in Class D felony charges, which carry a penalty of one to five years in prison under federal law...
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Wednesday morning, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, director of response policy handling the Gulf disaster from Washington, disclosed the bleak news that the oil spill had entered the loop current.
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Gardner/GreenpeaceAerial view of the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana, where oil leaking from the exploded remains of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread...
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The Coast Guard planned to set fire to oil leaking from the site of an exploded drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, a last-ditch effort to get rid of it before it reaches environmentally sensitive marshlands on the Lousiana coast...
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The spill has created a slick measuring 77 kilometers (48 miles) by 62 kilometers (39 miles) at its widest points and located 50 kilometers (30 miles) off the ecologically fragile Louisiana coast.
But almost two days of efforts have yielded no progress so far and the giant dome is now being suggested as the best short-term solution...
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Stormy weather delayed weekend efforts to mop up leaking oil from a damaged undersea well after the explosion and sinking of a massive rig off Louisiana's Gulf coast that left 11 workers missing, authorities said.
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Authorities are fearing a potential environmental disaster after an oil rig burning out of control in the Gulf of Mexico sank yesterday. Right now there's a five-mile slick of crude 40 miles off shore.
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Two Chevron Corp. employees were rescued from an offshore oil platform 80 miles south of New Orleans on Monday after the facility was damaged because of Hurricane Ida, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
A walkway that connects crew members' living area to the rest of the platform was damaged by a wayward lift boat, stranding the two men, O'Berry said. A video shot by the Coast Guard shows rescuers hoisting the men into a helicopter in 28 mile-per-hour winds and choppy waters.
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The Coast Guard said it medevaced a 50-year-old man off a support ship early Saturday morning. — Coast Guard: 50-Year-Old Man Complained Of Chest Pains
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