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Microbes munching gulf oil

Oil-degrading microbes in the deep ocean have been munching away on the Gulf of Mexico oil plume.

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Op-ed: The BP oil spill: An unprecedented response

Raed more from Admiral Thad Allen.

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Turning a crisis into an opportunity

At a political fund-raiser on Thursday for a close friend running for his old Senate seat, President Obama brought up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to make his case to voters.

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BP done pumping cement into well

For more than three months, an oil-weary nation has waited for the moment when engineers would begin pumping cement into BP's runaway well, in hopes of plugging its flow for good. That moment arrived quietly on Thursday.

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Oil spill in Michigan's Kalamazoo River has echoes of Gulf of Mexico disaster

In the Summer of the Spill, history is already repeating itself.

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Oil rig's final hours probed

Federal authorities investigating BP PLC's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are zeroing in on bad decisions.

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Spill costs to cut BP tax bill by $10bn

BP is forecast to pay about $10bn less tax over the next four years.

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Increased interest in Louisiana is a boon to Manassas restaurant

For better or worse, Louisiana's had its far share of national attention during the last decade.

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Are we losing interest in the Gulf oil spill?

We're losing interest in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill just a few weeks after it became a big media topic.

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Louisiana, scientists spar over how to block oil's approach

Louisiana officials have grown increasingly enamored of large-scale engineering projects, like sand berms and rock walls, to keep the oil off their coast.

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