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Storm Debris Delays Plans to Kill Gulf Oil Well

Lauren Frayer | AOL News
Tropical Storm Bonnie didn't do as much damage as feared -- but it may have delayed plans to permanently plug BP's runaway oil spill.

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Storm Debris Delays Plans to Kill Gulf Oil Well

7 hours 4 minutes ago

(July 31) - More than a week after remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie swept over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, she's still managing to wreak havoc on efforts to finally plug BP's runaway oil ...

Gulf Oil Spill in 3-D: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

20 hours 53 minutes ago

(July 30) -- While a documentary on the gulf oil spill starring SpongeBob SquarePants will likely never see the light of day, the BP disaster is getting very real attention in filmmaking circles these ...

New BP Boss: Time to Scale Back Part of Oil Cleanup

1 day 1 hour ago

(July 30) -- BP's incoming CEO told Gulf Coast residents today that it's time to begin scaling back parts of the oil spill cleanup. Bob Dudley, who doesn't officially take over until Oct. 1, met ...

Opinion: It's Time to End Our Oil Addiction

1 day 5 hours ago

(July 30) -- This month, I took a boat tour of the Gulf Coast to see the BP oil disaster up close along with fellow athletes from hockey, football and other sports. After listening to heart-wrenching ...

BP Gas Stations Debate Changing Their Name

1 day 9 hours ago

NEW ORLEANS (July 30) -- BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name ...

Spill Contaminants Linger as Surface Oil Breaks Up

1 day 22 hours ago

(July 29) -- This week has seen a flurry of news coverage about oil disappearing from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. "Where Did All the Crude Go?" wondered one ABC News headline, while AFP ...

BP's Pick for Oil Spill Uber Judge Has Unexpected Fans

2 days 2 hours ago

(July 29) -- The federal judge BP wants to oversee hundreds of lawsuits filed against it in the wake of the gulf oil spill is a conservative, no-nonsense Texan who has lectured on ethics to petroleum ...

Relief Well Unplugged, BP Readies Final 'Kill' Operation

2 days 8 hours ago

(July 29) -- With a nearby relief well unplugged after a delay during Tropical Storm Bonnie, BP is preparing two final kill operations to stanch the flow from its damaged Deepwater Horizon oil well ...

The World's Current Oil Spills, By the Numbers

2 days 21 hours ago

(July 28) -- Oil, oil everywhere. It seems like the earth is having a hard time keeping it below ground these days. With one active leak (in Barataria Bay, La.), two more still causing major ...

Report Makes It Official: Beach Most Screwed by Oil Spill Belongs to Alabama

3 days ago

(July 28) -- There's plenty of bad news to go around in this year's annual beach report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The document, released today, has a special section on stretches of ...

Day 100: Little Oil on Surface, Long Road Ahead

3 days 3 hours ago

(July 28) -- On Day 100, the worst of the BP oil spill appears to be over, although the cleanup remains a huge challenge. Crude stopped flowing freely from BP's broken well two weeks ago, and the ...

BP and Plaintiffs Jockey for Edge Ahead of Key Ruling

3 days 5 hours ago

(July 28) -- The seven federal judges who will meet Thursday in Boise to select a judge to oversee the scores of lawsuits filed in the wake of the Gulf Coast oil disaster will be making a choice ...

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