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BP has acknowledged that their efforts to cleanup the Gulf Oil Spill, which is now the largest oil spill in U.S. history, might be disrupted as Tropical Storm Alex gains momentum. Alex, the first named storm system of this year’s hurricane season, has already compelled the evacuation of some rigs offshore in the Gulf of [...]
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a lonely defender of BP. Recently, he said that people should not rush to blame them for the Gulf Oil Spill. Mayor Bloomberg, who sides with CEOs and companies often found entangled in public relations disasters, said he would rather have BP worrying about taking care of the leak [...]
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Federal authorities responding to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill say dead birds with oil on them have been reported for the first time in Texas, but a state official there disputes the report. A wildlife report issued Sunday by the government command center in Robert, La., says two dead birds with visible oil [...]
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President Barack Obama announced the creation of a special White House commission to investigate the BP oil spill 25 days ago. President Barack Obama announced his commission on the BP oil spill 25 days ago, but has yet to appoint all members. A few days later, he named the seven-member commission’s co-chairs: William Reilly, former [...]
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Admiral Thad Allen says the one million gallons of dispersant used to break up the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico has helped create “hundreds of thousands of patches” of oil that need to be cleaned up. The spill is “no longer a single spill but a massive collection of smaller spills,” said Allen, [...]
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