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It didn't make sense: After an oil rig explosion killed 11 and began spewing uncontrolled oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama White House downplayed the severity of the problem.

The Justice Department expects to sue BP for damages from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a filing made Monday night with the U.S. District Court in New Orleans, ... Continue Reading

Samples taken from the seafloor near BP's blown-out wellhead indicate miles of murky, oily residue sitting atop hard sediment. Moreover, inside that residue are dead shrimp, zooplankton, worms and other ... Continue Reading

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough tells CNN that all 13 workers involved in the rig explosion are accounted for, but one person is injured. Coast Choppers are on ... Continue Reading

Back in late July, after a summer of struggle, the underwater oil spill caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig was finally capped. And then, something wonderful and miraculous happened! The media started remarking that all of the millions of gallons of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico just disappeared! Raptured up into Oil Heaven, even!

A federal investigation into what went wrong at BP's Gulf of Mexico oil well before it blew shed more light on fateful decisions in the days before the April 20 explosions.

The search for oil 'on the surface' of the water has been hard to find during the last few days.