U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo says he voted against funding to pay the Hurricane Sandy flood insurance claims because of the deficit, but as the chief financial officer for the Biloxi Public Housing Authority back in 2005, Palazzo asked for federal relief despite the nation's debt.
Officials could know by early Friday if BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been sealed for good. An analysis of tests on the well done Thursday was scheduled to be completed within 24 hours, letting the federal government and BP PLC know if work last month that was meant to be temporary had the unexpected effect of permanently plugging the gusher.
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ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico prepared Thursday to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug BP's ruptured oil well to a near standstill.
BP acknowledges it posted on its website an altered photo that exaggerates the activity at its Gulf oil spill command center in Houston.
NEW ORLEANS -- From Sandra Bullock to Drew Brees, more than a dozen celebrities are urging people to sign a petition demanding full funding and implementation of a plan to restore the Gulf of Mexico and its coasts and wetlands.
An official said more tests are needed to determine if a massive Taiwanese oil skimmer
tested amid choppy seas over the weekend can successfully scour large amounts of crude
from the Gulf.
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PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Tags, tissue samples and sound are among methods being used on a scientific cruise to ...
NEW ORLEANS -- BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offe...
Investment banker Fred D. McCallister of Dallas says he's been trying since June 5 to offer a dozen Greek s...
BELLE CHASE, La. -- From a seaplane 1,000 feet above Louisiana's coastal wetlands, the places hit hardest b...
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. -- While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out...
For now, desperate oily pelicans are the gut-wrenching image of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But befor...
It would normally be considered your garden-variety tropical disturbance, plodding through the Caribbean, e...
The Coast Guard reported two people involved in the clean-up effort died on Wednesday. This report changes ...
The last, best hope of stopping the oil that's gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is two "relief well...
METAIRIE, La. -- BP sliced off a pipe with giant shears Thursday in the latest bid to curtail the worst spi...
BP has made progress toward plugging its Gulf of Mexico oil spill with mud but won't know for two more days...
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