The effects of the spill reach beyond the shoreline.
How do you seduce an open ocean creature like that to spill its secrets?
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill left a sheen of petroleum on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.
If the laws on our books are inadequate to prevent such an oil spill, or if we didn't enforce those laws - I want to know it.
Which is good news only if you like this summer's oil spill, mountaintop removal mining, catastrophic climate change and the ongoing transfer of wealth from the U.S. to oil-producing countries.
The plaintiffs claim that Texaco dumped 330 million gallons of oil--far more than the BP spill--around Lago Agrio, poisoning their water supply and sickening them with cancers and other diseases.
House: If I eat standing up, I spill.
The spill was bad, but the worst impact on the economy is from this moratorium.
Still, cleanup efforts seemed decidedly AD hoc and the incident raises questions about China's ability to deal with a bigger spill.
We Americans have been galvanized by the oil spill on our gulf coast, because we see tar balls and Dead Sea birds as visceral reminders of our hubris in deep sea drilling.
Can it break or spill?
After all, tracking where an oil spill will spread could be one of their responsibilities.
He was unable to be with us, because he had to stay and work very urgently on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Following the explosion and fire on the rig, the blow-out preventer on the sea bed should have automatically sealed the well, but it failed, resulting in the massive oil spill.
Carry the cup carefully and don't jiggle it, or you'll spill the tea.
Even modernised sites pose huge risks: a cyanide spill at a gold-extraction plant in Baia Mare in Romania poisoned the Tisza river in 2000.
The oil spill endangered thousands of birds.
Maybe Lianne can have a chat with him and he can reveal the oil spill shutdown codes.
Regardless, the aftereffects of an oil spill are likely to last for a long time.
The study found about 50 percent of the shrimp the FDA tested after the BP spill had harmful carbon levels exceeding the level of risk deemed by the group to be safe for pregnant women.
Yet, faced with sustained challenges like the BP oil spill, Obama has struggled to calibrate his inner clock and rouse himself to palpable intensity and action.
Don't spill the soup.
If you happen to spill some gas or oil on the floor, newspaper will help absorb the spill and can prevent a permanent stain on concrete or a soft spot in your asphalt drive.
Last week the White House press secretary said that thinking about the oil spill made the President clench his jaw.
