CNN
A new report set to be released Tuesday renews concerns about the long-term environmental impact of the Gulf Coast oil disaster, and efforts to permanently plug the ruptured BP oil well have been delayed again. Researchers at the University of South...
Sydney Morning Herald
BP and US government representatives had hoped to complete a "bottom kill" procedure and officially pronounce the well dead by mid-August, but the US pointman on the oil spill response said on Monday the bid was on hold. Admiral Thad Allen said that...
SF Gate
Gerald Herbert / AP A haul of shrimp and fish is seen on the deck of the shrimp trawler 'Miss Nancy Lynn' in Bastian Bay, near Empire, La., on the first day of shrimp season since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Monday, Aug. 16,...