Gulf of Mexico

Gulf dolphins suffer post-oil spill illnesses

March 27, 2012 By Blake Skylar

In Barataria Bay, La. (located in the northern Gulf of Mexico), bottlenose dolphins are suffering from severe illnesses - the aftermath of the BP oil spill, according to a report by Click Green.

Oil still a problem in the Gulf, scientists warn

August 18, 2010 By John Wojcik

The oil that BP and the government claim is gone from the Gulf of Mexico is actually still there, and threatens the eco-system, two groups of scientists said this week.

Cover-ups and ‘cost-savings’ ooze from BP records

July 6, 2010 By John Wojcik

Louisiana union leaders, environmentalists and others are saying that the disparity between what BP told government regulators in March and what it has actually been able to do results from a willfully misleading manipulation of numbers...

Pressure mounts on BP to pay claims and curb gusher

June 14, 2010 By John Wojcik

President Obama is back in the Gulf of Mexico for a two-day tour followed by a national prime-time TV address Tuesday, June 15, on the worst ecological disaster in U.S. history.

Oil plumes spreading under Gulf “like ash from a volcano”

June 8, 2010 By John Wojcik

Government officials confirmed today that oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface is traveling in clouds through large areas of the subsea Gulf of Mexico. At a news briefing, Jane Lubchenko, of the National...