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BP faces billions in fines as spill trial nears

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

BP oil cleanup nears the end

NEW ORLEANS - BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that winds up on shores of the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes from the company's well that blew out in 2010, causing the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, according to a plan approved …

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO

Oil spill cleanup turns up trove of relics

CAMINADA HEADLAND, La. - Cleanup after the BP oil spill has turned up dozens of sites where archaeologists are finding human and animal bones, pottery and primitive weapons left behind by pre-historic Indian settlements - a trove of new clues about the Gulf Coast's mound dwellers more than 1,300 years …

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Judge orders test on cement in BP well

NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge is ordering tests to be performed as soon as possible on cement Halliburton Co. used to seal the BP well that later blew out catastrophically in the Gulf of Mexico.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS AGO

Corps: New Orleans levees nearly ready

NEW ORLEANS - Five years after Hurricane Katrina flooded more than 80 percent of this city, the Army Corps of Engineers says billions of dollars of work has made the city much safer and many of its defenses could withstand a storm as strong as the deadly 2005 hurricane.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Oil seeps into Lake Pontchartrain

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans, which managed to escape the oil from the BP spill for more than two months, can't hide any longer.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Gulf oil spill out of control

VENICE, La. - An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

New oil leak in area of sunken drilling rig

NEW ORLEANS - A new oil leak was discovered at the site in the Gulf of Mexico where a drilling rig exploded and sank, and experts now estimate that five times more has been spilling into the water a day than previously believed, the Coast Guard said late Wednesday.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO