Governor Bobby Jindal, center, flanked by former St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungessor, stands at the end of a dredge pipe building a berm to ...

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In a scathing report issued on Dec. 16, the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill characterizes the effort to build berms to stem the onshore flow from the Macondo well blowout as ...

The big set of sand barriers erected by Louisiana's governor to protect the coastline at the height of the Gulf oil spill was criticized by staff with the presidential spill commission Thursday as a ...

NEW ORLEANS — The big set of sand barriers erected by Louisiana's governor to protect the coastline at the height of the Gulf oil spill was criticized by a presidential commission Thursday as a ...

OKLAHOMA – An Oklahoma family is outraged after a saltwater spill on their land. They’ve been fighting with the oil company for months over getting it cleaned up, with no luck. It happened on tribal ...

The frenzied response to the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico has featured any number of wing-and-a-prayer options from engineers and elected officials. But the debate over a sand-barrier ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Remember those sand berms Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was so insistent on getting to ...

A chain of sand berms built by the State of Louisiana to block and capture oil from BP’s runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico stopped a “minuscule” amount of oil and was largely a waste of money, the ...

The commander formerly in charge of the government’s response to the Gulf oil spill on Thursday denied that President Obama influenced his decision to approve the use of sand barriers off the coast of ...

The operator of the Keystone pipeline system has finished cleaning up a massive December 2022 oil spill, and the creek affected by it is flowing naturally again, the company and the U.S. Environmental ...

Crews on the water and on shore worked feverishly to limit environmental damage from one of the largest oil spills in recent California history. People said they noticed an oil sheen and smell of ...