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Apr 30, 2010 4:01 PM CDT

Feds Press BP on Funding Gulf Cleanup

Homeland Security, Interior secretaries tour oil spill area

(Newser) - BP is not doing enough to remedy the effects of the oil spill created when one of its offshore drilling facilities exploded, and the federal government plans to pressure the company to fund and complete the cleanup of the crude-choked Gulf of Mexico. "We cannot rest and will not...

La. Oil Spill
Now the Size
of Rhode Island

Apr 27, 2010 6:42 AM CDT

La. Oil Spill Now the Size of Rhode Island

Crews won't know until today if they're able to stop the leak

(Newser) - The oil spilling from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico has grown to more than 1,800 square miles—an area larger than Rhode Island—but crews using a robot sub have yet to be able to stop the two leaks, which sit 5,000 feet below the...

La. Oil Rig Sinks;
11 Still Missing

Apr 22, 2010 1:21 PM CDT

La. Oil Rig Sinks; 11 Still Missing

Family of missing worker files negligence suit

(Newser) - The Coast Guard is saying that an oil platform that suffered a massive explosion two days ago has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers are still missing. A Coast Guard helicopter and rescue plane resumed the search earlier today as the rig, off the Louisiana coast, continued to...

11 Oil Rig Workers
Still Missing in Gulf

Apr 21, 2010 6:46 PM CDT

11 Oil Rig Workers Still Missing in Gulf

Rescuers will search through the night

(Newser) - The Coast Guard says it will search through the night for 11 missing oil rig workers in the Gulf of Mexico. One hopeful note: the men were spotted in a lifeboat shortly after the nighttime explosion on the rig, about 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Seventeen workers were...