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Cleanup crews must battle oil and heat, humidity
BAY JIMMY, La. (AP) – The high-noon heat beats down like a fist along the Gulf Coast, but crews cleaning up the oil spill wear white plastic suits, with yellow boots and thick blue plastic gloves.
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Supply shortages slowing Gulf oil spill cleanup
Associated Press – June 14, 2010 3:05 PM ET MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – Almost two months after an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, shortages of government-required protective gear and cleaning…
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Mariner’s Choice Highly Effective Eco-Safe Products Being Considered for Possible Use in Gulf Clean-Up Efforts
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mariner’s Choice International Inc. , a North American manufacturer of an extensive line of eco-safe products for the marine industry, today announced that the Deepwater Horizon Dispersant Use Meeting Report issued on June 4, 2010, by Coastal Response Research Center, University of New Hampshire, has found dispersants environmentally helpful in minimizing the amount of oil …
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Recent Updates for Deepwater Horizon Response

GRAND ISLE, La. — Clean-up crews are shown on the beach in this overflight video filmed from a Coast Guard HH-65 helicopter. Beach clean-up is one part of the effort to keep oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident from settling on the coastline. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kelly Parker.
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Recent Updates for Deepwater Horizon Response.

Recent Updates for Deepwater Horizon Response.

Long Cleanup Effort Ahead as Oil Slick Spreads along Gulf Coast
GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) – Nearly seven weeks after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the ruptured well beneath it has spilled roughly 23 million to 50 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. That oil is now fouling a growing stretch of beaches and marshes along the Gulf Coast.
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Clean-up work starts at oil-spill affected beach
&$ &$A worker cleans the oil washed ashore from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill at the beach of Gulf Shores, southern Alabama, the United States, June 6, 2010. More than half of the oil leaking each day in the Gulf of Mexico is now being captured and the British Petroleum (BP) will restore the gulf to its original state, BP’s chief executive Tony Hayward said Sunday. (Xinhua/Zhang Jun)&$ &$ &$
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Oily tide erases cleanup work
The cap on the damaged BP oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is now keeping up to 462,000 gallons of oil a day from leaking into the sea, the Coast Guard admiral overseeing the government’s response to the spill said Monday.
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