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EPA says tests show moderate health concerns with air 50 miles from Gulf oil spill
NEW ORLEANS – The Environmental Protection Agency says the air in some places along the Louisiana coast poses a health risk to vulnerable people.
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Tests confirm tar balls on Texas beaches are from Gulf oil spill
HOUSTON (AP) — Test results confirmed Tuesday that all the tar balls found over the weekend on beaches along the Texas Gulf Coast are from the Gulf oil spill, officials said. Officials first announced Monday that five gallons of tar balls had been found Saturday on the Bolivar Peninsula — the first evidence that the gushing crude from the Deepwater Horizon well had reached all of the Gulf …
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BP says new tests show it’s on target to finish drilling relief well by mid-August
Tests show BP is on target for mid-August completion of a relief well in the Gulf of Mexico, the best hope of stopping the oil that’s been gushing since April, the company said Friday.
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Whale Not Found in Oiled Water, but Cause of Death Unknown
Recent Updates for Unified Command for the BP Oil Spill | Deepwater Horizon Response

Chairman Henry Waxman questions executives from BP, Halliburton, Cameron, and Transocean regarding negative pressure tests on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig.

GOP Tests 2012 Theme vs. Obama
What’s Your Reaction? President Barack Obama meets with members of his Cabinet to discuss the response to BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington.
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Pitt researcher says simple polymer-based filter successfully cleans water, recovers oil in Gulf of Mexico tests
( University of Pittsburgh ) In response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, a University of Pittsburgh engineering professor has developed a technique for separating oil from water via a cotton filter coated in a chemical polymer that blocks oil while allowing water to pass through. The researcher reports that the filter was successfully tested off the coast of Louisiana and shown to …
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Lab tests confirm underwater layers of Gulf oil
Scientists with the University of South Florida say laboratory tests have confirmed that oil from a spewing Gulf of Mexico well has accumulated in at least two extensive plumes deep underwater.
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BP have announced successful tests on a system to siphon oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. . Follow us on twitter at twitter.com .

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BP is running tests and expected to decide shortly if it will go ahead with an effort to choke off its oil gusher by force-feeding it heavy drilling mud and cement. “Top kill’ is an operation in which heavy mud and cement would be shot into the blown-out well to plug it up.
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