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Oil Spill

End of BP cleaning crews leaves questions on Gulf

Finding tar balls linked to the BP oil spill isn't difficult on some Gulf Coast beaches, but the company and the government say it isn't common enough to keep sending out the crews that patrolled the sand for three years in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.

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OIL SPILL

Girl, 5, among those who get messages across at RESTORE Act meeting in Biloxi

BILOXI -- One of the most effective people at Tuesday night's meeting on the RESTORE Act didn't have a great speaking voice, a polished presentation or a bunch of political connections.
OIL SPILL

BP oil spill cleanup ends in Mississippi

BP PLC says cleanup work is ending in three of the states affected by the company's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BUSINESS

Gulf of Mexico oil-cleanup progress slow, funding still uncertain

WASHINGTON -- Three years after the infamous BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast, lawmakers are still trying to nail down the effectiveness of past, present and future relief efforts backed by billions of dollars.
OCEAN SPRINGS

South Mississippi citizen scientists contribute to oil-spill knowledge

OCEAN SPRINGS -- Residents got a lesson on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill Saturday from citizen scientists during a community event held at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs.
OIL SPILL

BP rig supervisors challenge manslaughter charges

NEW ORLEANS -- Two BP rig supervisors charged in the deaths of 11 workers in the Deepwater Horizon disaster claim the manslaughter counts in their indictment must be dismissed because they don't apply to conduct on a foreign-owned vessel operating outside U.S. territory.
OIL SPILL

Oil spill restoration overseers release draft plan to restore the Gulf Coast's resources, economy

NEW ORLEANS -- There's now a draft plan for using fines from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to restore the Gulf Coast's natural resources and economy.
OIL SPILL

Rally on spill's anniversary points out problems, recommends oversight

More than 50 fishermen and shrimpers rallied at the Lee Street docks this morning to remember those who died in the Deepwater Horizon blowout two years ago and protest the lack of response to the needs of the community in the wake of the BP oil spill.
OIL SPILL

BP: Two-thirds of state's coastline now clean

BP officials took a helicopter tour of Mississippi beaches this morning and announced that two years after the country's worst oil spill, almost two-thirds of the state's coastline is considered clean.
OIL SPILL

Mexican plan for Gulf deepwater wells sparks new worries

Two years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, Mexico's state oil company is about to test its hand at drilling at extraordinary depths in the Gulf of Mexico.
OIL SPILL

Hood wins request to remand Feinberg/GCCF suit to state court

Mississippi Attorney General Hood won his request to have his subpoena enforcement action against the Gulf Coast Claims Facility and its administrator, Kenneth Feinberg, heard in a state court.