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Helen Scott was 82 when Hurricane Katrina and its floodwaters collapsed her house in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. Now, she must find strength to confront another hurricane.
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Tropical Storm Isaac maintained a maximum wind speed near hurricane strength as it shut 78 percent of oil production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and sent gasoline futures to a four-month high.
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BP Plc’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be exacerbating a natural phenomenon that causes fish, crabs, eels and shrimp to swarm the shoreline to escape oxygen-depleted sea waters.
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Almatis BV, a producer of specialty alumina products, filed an agreement on July 23 underpinning a revised reorganization plan that will allow the Chapter 11 case to end consensually and avoid a protracted battle between senior and junior secured creditors.
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Steve Theriot says he would like to seek compensation from Kenneth Feinberg and the $20 billion claims fund he oversees for victims of BP Plc ’s oil spill.
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For Tammy Wolfer of Louisiana, the worst part about the oil slick looming off the Gulf of Mexico coast isn’t that it cut her income from working at a marina and ruined plans to buy a house this year. The worst part is waiting to see where and when the oil will arrive on shore.
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Everything changed for the Alabama environmental group Mobile Baykeeper on April 20, when BP Plc ’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, sank and began gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Weather forecasts in the Gulf of Mexico indicate winds will push an oil slick toward Louisiana in the next few days after the failure of BP Plc ’s latest attempt to stem the gushing offshore leak.
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BP Plc faces the risk of an even bigger oil spill as it attempts to drill two so-called relief wells to plug a leak on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico that’s gushing 5,000 barrels a day into the ocean.
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BP Plc ’s latest effort to prevent oil leaks from damaging wildlife and tourism on the U.S. coast has been stymied as cold and pressure a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico formed ice that clogged a containment device.
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