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Back in April, an oil rig positioned off Louisiana's coast called the Deepwater Horizon burst into flames and the rig sank into the sea. For months, clean-up crews worked to contain the mess and specialists were flown in to put a stop to the oil that spewed out at a tragic rate. In early May, ...

In response to BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama immediately placed a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling efforts, a move which affected 33 deep-water drilling projects. While many people initially applauded Obama's decision, public sentiment in the ...

The exact amount of oil that is still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's broken tap is a number under some dispute, but the mess could be increasing at a rate of a million gallons a day. Or, as the WaPo put it, "roughly one Valdez spill every week." So, how much gasoline has been wasted by ...

Reports are pouring in left and right on this one. There appears to be an epic air spill off of U.S. coastal waters and nobody can figure out how to contain the disaster. Air began blowing from an offshore wind farm a ...

In the wake of the disastrous oil spill off of the Louisiana shoreline, the White House announced that it will put a halt to all new offshore drilling in U.S water until the cause for the disaster ...

A tragic, but all too common event occurred last week that heightens our cause for concern. The Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig positioned off of the coast of Louisiana, went down in flames after several explosions led to the outbreak of a fire that could not be contained. The events started on ...