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A U.S. Coast Guard-led operation has contained an oil well's uncontrolled discharge into Louisiana's Garden Island Bay after ...
State oil company Pemex repaired pipeline leaks at its Olmeca refinery in Dos Bocas, Tabasco, after an oil spill on Saturday.
The U.S. Coast Guard and other groups have been trying to contain a discharge in Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana.
Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico. Past barbecue joints, a naval base ...
After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard ...
In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.
One morning in early April 2024, Elías Naal Hernández set out with his fishing net to try his luck in the waters of Isla ...
Analysts attribute BP's decline to three major events in the last two decades: the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, its 2020 ...
The Republican-led House has passed a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal ...
Fourteen Years After the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Endemic Fishes Face an Uncertain Future Apr. 18, 2024 — The 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest accidental spill in ...
Despite the 15-year age of the incident, the oil spill response has yet to cease. USM has lent study results to several different publications and played a part in the Gulf of Mexico Research ...