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Tarballs from Deepwater Horizon found on Bolivar and Galveston Island
AUSTIN – Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson on Monday announced the Texas General Land Office’s Oil Spill Prevention and Response Program is working closely with the U.S. Coast Guard for a coordinated response to the state’s first confirmed impact from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Tarballs from Deepwater Horizon found on Bolivar, Galveston Island
AUSTIN — Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson on Monday announced the Texas General Land Office’s Oil Spill Prevention and Response Program is working closely with the U.S. Coast Guard for a coordinated response to the state’s first confirmed impact from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Whale Found Dead in Gulf
The NOAA Ship Pisces found a dead sperm whale floating just miles south of the oil spill site at Deepwater Horizon Tuesday. It was not found in oil, but the cause of death is unknown.
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Whale Not Found in Oiled Water, but Cause of Death Unknown
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No Confirmed Oil Found at Panama City Beach By Mid-Afternoon Sunday
As of Sunday afternoon, no reports have been confirmed of petroleum product originating from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that could eventually start washing up on Bay County shores.
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Dead, Oiled Birds Found in Texas
Federal authorities responding to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill say dead birds with oil on them have been reported for the first time in Texas.
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US coast guard officials say they have found a new leak at the site where an offshore drilling rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico last week. They estimated five thousands barrels were now leaking into the sea every day. Earlier clean up crews lit a controlled test fire in to try and clean up the slick. The spill is threatening wildlife and fisheries on the coastline.
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Gulf oil spill: Tar balls found in Florida Keys not from Deepwater Horizon … Los Angeles Times (blog) Annalise Mannix, Key West's environmental program manager, said she had doubted the current could have brought the Gulf oil to her area so fast. … Tar balls from Gulf oil spill reach Florida; ooze still off Gulf CoastPress-Register – al.com (blog) Tar Balls Appear on Fla. BeachDiscovery News Spill may be spreading: tar balls wash up in the Florida KeysMongabay.com MiamiHerald.com –NewsOXY –Reuters all 1,089 news articles »

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Huge Oil Plumes Found Under Gulf as BP Struggles
Huge oil plumes discovered underwater in Gulf as BP struggles with latest fix BP – Gulf of Mexico – Mexico – Oil spill – Business
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Huge oil plumes found in Gulf as BP fix struggles
Oil from a blown-out well is forming huge underwater plumes as much as 10 miles long below a visible slick in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists said as BP wrestled for a third day Sunday with its latest contraption for slowing the nearly month-old gusher.
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Report finds early concerns about BP
A firm hired by BP substantiated complaints about policy violations on another Gulf rig, Atlantis.
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Substantial safety concerns raised about the Atlantis, another BP oil rig
The company most closely linked to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill also owns a rig that operated with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, according to records and interviews, a deficiency that one company official warned could “lead to catastrophic operator errors.” BP – Business – Social Sciences – Archaeology – Alternative
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