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Ships including the Deepwater Enterprise work at the site of the BP oil spill off the Louisiana coast on August 10. STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: the failed blowout pre...

VERMILION BAY, LA (KPLC) - the Coast Guard says the fire from an explosion on an offshore petroleum platform 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay has been put out an...

Mariner Energy (ME) puts active; as shares down 5% on explosion Mariner Energy (NYSE: ME) is recently down $1.14 to $22.20. Coast Guard...

NEW YORK — Just a few months ago Mariner Energy was celebrating its imminent marriage to Apache Corp. On Thursday, Mariner found itsel
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Some people break the ice with a one-liner. Gary Bock prefers a 300-pounder. “Sure, it’s silly,” said Bock, executive director of the Vancouver Watersheds Council. “But why not...

Fashion apps for the popular phone are multiplying almost daily, with entries from major designers, retailers and magazines, among othe...

ReutersThe Gulf Claims RacketWall Street JournalWhen is billion in ready cash not enough? Answer: When state Attorneys General and the plaintiffs bar are vying for a bigger chunk of the BP compensation fund that is supposed to go to victims of the Gulf o...

Aug 23, 9:59 AM EDT Hearings into cause of oil spill begin in Houston ...

Globe and MailWoods Hole says oil trapped deep, degrading very slowlyBoston GlobeWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers have mapped a snaking, 22-mile-long underwater oil plume from the BP PLC well in the Gulf of Mexico, work they say provides s...

The GuardianTransocean says BP is withholding rig blast dataHouston ChronicleTransocean says BP has been withholding key data related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, impeding Transocean's internal investigation of the deadly well blowout, rig explo...