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BP oil spill cleanup work hampered by hurricane 
Hurricane Alex is slowing cleanup and oil containment efforts at the site of BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill even as a potential permanent fix for the leak remains weeks away.
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HILLSBOROUGH: HHS alum leads Coast Guard ship in oil cleanup work
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s moments before dawn Monday, and a voice over the speaker system announces the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Alligator is heading home.
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How BP’s Escrow Account Will Work
As Bryan noted, one of the fruits of President Obama’s meeting with BP officials today is the announcement that the company will sink billion into an escrow account that will be used to pay out costs associated with the Deepwater Horizon disaster. BP will fund the account in installments over the next three and […]
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BP COO Doug Suttles address members of Alabama Guard 3

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Plenty of Gulf volunteers, not enough work to do
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has brought out thousands of people who just want to help — though there isn’t much for them to do unless they own a Hazmat suit. AP Photo / Dave Martin/fileOil cleanup workers hired…
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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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