NCBC Gulfport cleans up oil spill
The United States Navy completed a clean-up operation following a discharge of 1,800 gallons of diesel fuel from NCBC Gulfport's microgrid system last week. The spill happened on March 9,…
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Mississippi Aquarium receives grants for coral restoration
The Mississippi Aquarium was awarded $600,000 in grants for coral restoration. The grants support restoration and education related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The research will help…
AP Was There: Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE: On April 20, 2010, a well blew wild under a BP oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers were missing that day, and would later be declared dead. The blast touched off…
2008 Mississippi River spill: Barge company to pay $6.6M
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A barge company responsible for a Mississippi River oil spill that significantly damage shoreline habitat in south Louisiana in 2008 has agreed to pay $2.1 million in damages and buy and preserve a wildlife habitat just…
CITGO agrees to settlement for 2006 Louisiana refinery spill
NEW ORLEANS - CITGO Petroleum Corp. has agreed to pay $19.7 million to restore natural resources damaged during a 2006 spill at its southwest Louisiana refinery that saw millions of gallons of waste oil and wastewater sent into the Calcasieu…
Today marks the 11th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig
Today marks 11 years since an explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killing 11 workers and causing the largest marine oil spill in history. The Deepwater Horizon, which was being leased by BP, was located off the Coast of…
Gulf Islands superintendent Dan Brown to retire
After more than 43 years of public service, Gulf Islands National Seashore Superintendent Dan Brown will retire on January 2, 2021. Brown has been Gulf Islands’ superintendent since 2010, arriving just as the Deepwater Horizon oil washed ashore. Steve McCoy,…
Deepwater Horizon: Sparkling waters hide some lasting harm from 2010 oil spill
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press Ten years after a well blew wild under a BP platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men and touching off the nation’s worst offshore oil spill, gulf waters sparkle in the sunlight,…
Oil Spill from 2004 is Worse than Previously Thought...And It's Still Leaking
It was steadily leaking as much as 45-hundred gallons a day, not three or four gallons per day as the rig owner claimed.
Hydraulic oil spill in Gulfport neighborhood
More than 50 gallons of hydraulic oil was spilled throughout Meadowbrook neighborhood in Gulfport this afternoon. Around 2 p.m., Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality responded to a call of an oil spill throughout a neighborhood. MDEQ arrived at the scene…
Senate BP Oil Spill Settlement Bill
Coast lawmakers authored a number of bills in an attempt to keep BP Oil Spill Settlement Money on the coast. Only one survived the first bill killing deadline of the legislative session. The bill authored by Pascagoula Senator Brice Wiggins,…
BP Oil Spill Settlement Bills
How will the state legislature allocate BP oil spill settlement money? A month into the session and with the first bill-killing deadline tonight the answer is still unclear. A number of bills authored by coast legislators regarding the funds have…
Northern Legislators Fight For Money
South Mississippi Legislators along with Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves want to make sure BP Oil spill settlement funds are mostly spent on the gulf coast, but North East Mississippi Legislators are saying not so fast. Representative William Tracy Arnold a…
Oil Spill Cost BP $61.6 Billion
$61.1 Billion, that’s how much the 2010 BP spill cost the oil giant. This is the first time BP has put a total cost on the catastrophe. BP officials say they expect to spend a total of $44 billion after…
Gulf Oil Spill
The U.S. Coast Guard says about 88,000 gallons of oil have leaked from a Shell flow line into the Gulf of Mexico, about 90 miles off the Coast of Louisiana. Chief Petty Officer Bobby Nash says the leak has been…
BP Protesters Return to Gulf Coast
BP Protesters Return to Gulf Coast After Marching at BP Headquarters.