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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The Gulf Coast is a hot destination again two years after the massive BP Plc oil spill made the region a tourist dead zone, with the petroleum giant pumping more than $150 million into promotions to help the region recover. In New Orleans, about 150 miles northeast of where BP's well blew up on April 20, 2010, the period since more than 4 million barrels of oil gushed ...
A final investigative report by the U.S. Coast Guard and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management determined the initial cause of the BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was “failure of a cement barrier in the production casing string.” Now, the Department of Energy (DOE) is working to enhance the environmental safety of 13 selected deepwater drilling projects, particularly improving the cement ...
* New Orleans, Florida Panhandle visitors surge * Some areas still waiting to recover * Tourism officials say BP money helped By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS, May 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Gulf Coast is a hot destination again two years after the massive BP Plc oil spill made the region a tourist dead zone, with the petroleum giant pumping more than $150 million into promotions to help the region recover.
Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is getting $18.7 million for two multiyear environmental health projects designed to help Gulf Coast residents affected by the 2010 BP oil spill.
* New Orleans, Florida Panhandle visitors surge * Some areas still waiting to recover * Tourism officials say BP money helped NEW ORLEANS, May 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Gulf Coast is a hotdestination again ...
GALVESTON, Texas — Port of Galveston and tourism officials last week hired attorneys to pursue claims against BP for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which they said might have hurt revenues at the public docks and kept visitors away as the federal government imposed a moratorium on deepwater drilling and tourists shunned beaches. Meanwhile, the city of Galveston, which receives taxes from ...
An investigation is underway into an oil spill in northwestern Alberta.
Emergency personnel respond to an oil spill off Buckeystown Pike near Marcie’s Choice Lane on Friday morning in Frederick
There were nearly four times as many fish, shrimp and crabs in Alabama waters in the fall of 2011 as there were before the BP oil spill, according to scientific data collected by the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
Howard might need to expand trade list There's really only one way Dwight Howard can clean up this oil spill on his image as a coach-killing conspirator and wrecking-ball flip-flopper.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is getting $18.7 million for two multiyear environmental health projects designed to help Gulf Coast residents affected by the 2010 BP oil spill. Using $15 million from BP PLC's settlement of class-action medical claims, the school plans a five-year effort to set up a network of environmental health experts to ...
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