A thin slick of oil in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be coming from a containment dome that was abandoned on the sea floor during efforts to stop the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, not from the ...

The White House escalated its response Thursday to the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and a local official said the massive slick is projected to reach the Louisiana coast late Thursday.

An oil slick polluting Welsh shores has been blamed ... Natural Resources Wales believe the recent heavy rain overwhelmed the earthen-wall pollution defences at the site. Huwel Manley, operations ...

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