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Sunken vessel near Lowman Beach salvaged; remaining oil cannot be recovered
Q13 FOX News reporterA 150-ton crane barge was able to pull a sunken 73-foot vessel up to the surface Saturday, salvaging the ship. The vessel was removed successfully from the water at approximately 9:30 p.m. and placed on a barge that will transport it from the area off...Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Ecosystems, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Military, International Military Interventions
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Oil spill cleared at intersection of National Pike and Mill Street
An oil spill was reported in Clear Spring near the intersection of National Pike and Mill Street, also called U.S. 40 and Md. 68 respectively, a supervisor for Washington County Emergency Services said. Police were responding to the oil spill at 12:19 p....Tags: Environmental Issues
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BP to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico
CNN MoneyFive hundered and fifty-four days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, BP is back in action in the Gulf of Mexico. The company announced Wednesday that it had earned its first permit to drill for oil in the Gulf since last year's oil spill disaster,...Tags: Petroleum Industry, U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Companies and Corporations
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EPA Victories
We talk about what our organization does on a daily basis, and for some it's hard to understand without concrete proof of the action we take. Cattlemen have won some battles and made some giant leaps the past couple weeks. In the wake of Congress...Tags: Environmental Politics, White House, Mike Johanns, Litigation and Regulation, Trade Agreements
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Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths
KIAHNearly 600 dolphins have died in the Gulf of Mexico in the last year and half, and although scientists haven’t confirmed the 2010 oil spill is to blame...It’s definitely a factor they’re considering. What researchers do know is the...Tags: BP Plc, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Gulf of Mexico
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Baltimore scientists find low but possibly harmful Gulf contamination
Scientists from the National Aquarium and the Johns Hopkins University say they've found low but potentially harmful levels of toxic oil contaminants in the Gulf of Mexico months after the Deepwater Horizon well blowout was capped.
Erik Rifkin, interim...Tags: Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, BP Plc, National Aquarium Baltimore, University of Maryland, College Park
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ExxonMobil in $93M Battle Over Unforeseen Damages in 1989 Spill
Attorneys for the state of Alaska, the federal government and ExxonMobil weighed in on Tuesday afternoon in one of the final chapters of the Exxon Valdez oil spill saga -- the reopener clause in a 1991 agreement that could allow the state to collect...Tags: BP Plc, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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New Numbers Show Enbridge Oil Spill Worse Than Previously Thought
FOX 17 Web ProducerAfter a year of extensive clean up efforts, new data from the Kalamazoo River Enbridge Oil Spill is suggesting the spill is worse than originally thought. Estimates originally put the oil spill at around 800,000 gallons leaked into the river. The...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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Agency overseeing oil, gas exploration gets shakeup
GreenspaceThe Obama administration is reorganizing the agencies responsible for overseeing domestic offshore oil and gas exploration.... -
Burning oil from BP spill produced carbon plumes
GreenspaceResearch released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has concluded that weeks of burning off oil from last summer's BP spill released more than 1 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere.... -
Gulf oil spill claim payouts reach $5.5 billion
Nation NowA year and a half after the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the administrator of BP’s $20-billion restitution fund told Congress Thursday that he has has paid out about $5.5 billion to more than 213,000 victims of the nation’s worst offshore... -
Texas announces $50-million settlement with BP over explosion
Nation NowBP settlement: Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that the state's settlement with the oil company resolves 72 emissions violations the company accrued during the past six years....
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