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Officials looking for source of oil spill hitting Galveston beaches Houston Chronicle Copyright 2013 Houston Chronicle.

Editor's Note: In 2010, Katie Oxford filed a series of riveting columns from the heart of the Gulf oil spill disaster.

A Louisiana woman will serve nearly five years in prison for impersonating a federal safety trainer to profit off of displaced members of the Gulf of Mexico's fishing community, many of whom spoke little or no English.

Jonathan Shinn, 45, of Kensington Place, Scartho, lost control on a bend which was covered in a slick of spilled oil.

Fla. State Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, a high-ranking two-term Sarasota Democrat, told the Federation of Manatee County Community Associations Tuesday night that judging from comments Crist made Tuesday afternoon, Republican House speaker-designate Dean Cannon of Orlando appears to be near success in persuading the newly-re-registered governor to ... (more)

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This May, 14, 1942, U. S. Army Air Corps photograph, provided by the National Archives, College Park, Md., shows the burning tanker Potrero del Llano, a Mexican ship heading to New York that was sunk on May 14, 1942 by a German U-boat, about 15 miles southeast of Miami's Biscayne Bay.

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The St. Louis County Library Foundation's 'Buzz' Westfall Favorite Author Series is pleased to present Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling non-fiction author Steve Coll for a discussion and signing of his book "Private Empire: ExxonMobile and American Power." The event will take place at Library Headquarters on Monday, June 3, at 7:00 ... (more)

BP wants Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene over the escalating cost of compensating US companies for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster in 2010"BP is so worried by the potential magnitude of alleged undeserved payments it is making to companies that it is planning to ask the UK prime minister and chancellor for help in persuading the US ... (more)

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BP is seeking to stop paying millions of dollars in what it calls spurious compensation claims stemming from the catastrophic 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Scott on Friday signed a bill that creates a tax break for the state's manufacturers.

Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in US history.

Representatives from the 23 Florida Gulf counties the federal Restore Act deemed affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill met Friday in Key Largo for their monthly session.

Transocean Ltd. shareholders have voted out the oil drilling company's chairman and backed one of Carl Icahn's director nominees.

China is a major trading partner of New Zealand but some critics believe media 'marginalised' coverage of last month's Dalian oil spillage crisis.

The Assumption Parish sinkhole is the focus of two pieces of legislation facing Louisiana lawmakers during the 2013 legislative session.

BP has asked the Government to help it battle a wave of 'fictitious' claims for billions in compensation over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

A federal judge has agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.