Gulf oil spill reaches Texas as tar balls wash ashore

Oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill reaches all five US Gulf states as tar balls land on a beach in Galveston, Texas.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10520458.stm

Just like pelicans people cant avoid oil either

So the Gulf oil spill has you ready to quit petroleum cold turkey? Louisiana's brown pelicans have more of a chance of avoiding Big Oil than you do.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100611/ap_on_sc/us_sci_oil_in_everything;_ylt=AumQehj_NHlNwoIXFbJKTKUPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJwbHIyN29oBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNjExL3VzX3NjaV9vaWxfaW5fZXZlcnl0aGluZwRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzIEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRz

Obama oversees progress made on oil spill response

President Barack Obama says progress apparently is being made in fighting the enormous Gulf oil spill.

But the president says it's "way too early to be optimistic" about BP's latest attempt to stanch the spill by capping the well and siphoning off some of the crude oil.

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iR2u7XhbCuEUcJvZiPBPetOzSlDAD9G4LNCO0

Whos to Blame for the Gulf Oil Spill TIME

We have seen the enemy, and he is us.

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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1992165,00.html?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: time/topstories (TIME: Top Stories)&utm_content=Google Reader

Worry that Gulf oil spreading into major current

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Engineers finally figured out how to siphon some of the oil that has been spewing into the Gulf for almost a month, but it could be too late to stop the ooze from reaching a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100517/D9FOI7J80.html

Arianna Huffington Sunday Roundup

This week brought what President Obama termed the "ridiculous spectacle" of executives from three companies involved in the catastrophic Gulf oil spill testifying in front of Congress, each desperately trying to blame the other.

Think "The Three Stooges Go To Washington" -- Moe, Larry, and Halliburton...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/sunday-roundup_b_577558.html

Gulf Oil Leak New Calculation Exxon Valdez Passed Today

Since we're now in Day 11 of the spill, which began with a blowout and explosion on April 20, we estimate that by the end of the today, May 1st, 2010 -- 12.2 million gallons of oil, at a minimum, have been spilled into the Gulf of Mexico.

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http://blog.skytruth.org/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-new-spill-rate.html

In Gulf Oil Spill Fragile Marshes Face New Threat

With oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico unabated and officials giving no indication that the flow can be contained soon, towns braced for an imminent environmental disaster. The area can only sustain so many environmental insults

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02spill.html