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Top administration officials on efforts to contain, clean up of Gulf oil spill
Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen on joint progress with BP in Gulf oil spill cleanup effort
Obama administration wants to appear in control of oil spill, yet distance itself from BP's failed efforts to stop leak
An environmental watchdog group filed a lawsuit Thursday against the company it blames for an oil spill 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana, claiming oil has been fl...
FBN's Adam Shapiro goes 15 miles off the coast of Louisiana searching for oil with fisherman Tom Peters.
Oil spill cleanup expert on mistakes that may have been made in process
NEW ORLEANS -- Tropical Storm Alex steamed across the Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path that could keep it away from BP's busted well but could still stir up heavy ...
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Underwater robots positioned a giant 100-ton concrete-and-steel box over a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as w...
ROBERT, La. -- Three top Obama administration officials are returning to the Gulf Coast to monitor the massive oil spill that seems to have no end in sight -- the de...
WASHINGTON (AP) — BP CEO Tony Hayward expects to tell Congress he is "personally devastated" by the Gulf drilling rig explosion and oil spill and understands the ang...
Adm. Thad Allen has latest on oil clean-up operations
Timeline of the Gulf Coast oil spill and the response by the federal government:Tuesday, April 20:—Government responds to late-night report that the offshore drillin...
Former New York City mayor talks BP, Gulf oil spill and President Obama
COVINGTON, La. (AP) — The Gulf oil spill has surpassed the Exxon Valdez as the worst in U.S. history, according to new estimates released Thursday, but the Coast Gua...
A summary of events on Thursday, May 20, Day 30 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon...
VENICE, La. (AP) — BP's chairman defended his company's safety record and said Sunday that "a failed piece of equipment" was to blame for a massive oil spill along t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The impatient nation isn't getting answers fast enough in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.What exactly went wrong? Who messed up? How much oi...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The ambitious Republican governors of Mississippi and Louisiana are a study in contrasts as an oil spill threatens coastal economies still reel...
The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committed other missteps that r...
Under questioning from the Justice Department and plaintiffs suing the oil giant he once ran, Tony Hayward fought off accusations that he sought to prop up BP's fall...