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  1. This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 1:45 PM EDT shows clouds cover most of the Eastern US as a low pressure system moves eastward through the Gulf states. This pulls abundant moisture in from the Gulf of Mexico, supporting moderate to heavy showers and...
  2. This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 1:45 PM EDT shows clouds stretch into Hispaniola from a cold front in the North Atlantic Ocean. This brings a few patchy rain showers to the region, but significant rainfall has not developed. In the Gulf of Mexico, a low...
  3. This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows clouds pop up across the Central US as a trough of low pressure strengthens in the Plains. This system pulls moisture and energy in from the Gulf of Mexico and creates a warm front that produces severe...
  4. This is the Weather Underground forecast for Saturday, May 5, 2012 for the United States. Another low pressure system moves off the Rocky Mountains and into the Plains, triggering showers and thunderstorms across the Central and Northern Plains. Meanwhile, onshore flow from the Gulf of...
  5. This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, May 4, 2012 at 10:45 AM EDT shows clouds cover the Lesser Antilles as a trough of low pressure in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean pushes a cold front into the Caribbean Sea. This produces widespread rain showers throughout the day. To the north, scattered...
  6. Another low pressure system moves off the Rocky Mountains and into the Plains, triggering showers and thunderstorms across the Central and Northern Plains Saturday May 5, 2012. Meanwhile, onshore flow from the Gulf of Mexico produces thunderstorm activity across the South.
  7. This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, May 4, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows clouds cover the Great Lakes as well as parts of the Southern US. A low pressure system moves over the Northern US, kicking up scattered showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms turn severe with strong...
  8. This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 01:45 PM EDT shows a few patchy clouds develop over the Caribbean Islands and Central America. The tail end of a front lingers over the Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, triggering widespread showers. Meanwhile, an area of low pressure...
  9. This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 1:45 PM EDT shows clouds cover the Great Lakes and Northeast, as well as the Southern states. A low pressure system moves over the Great Lakes, kicking up showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms have turned severe with...

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The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. It is a small ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The shape of its basin is roughly circular and approximately 1,500 km wide (932 mi.) and filled with of sedimentary rocks and debris. It connects with the Atlantic... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. Last month, the U.S. Senate demonstrated its commitment to restoring the Gulf of Mexico's economy and environment by approving the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies (RESTORE) of the Gulf Coast Act (S. 1400) as an amendment to the Senate transportation ...
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 2 weeks ago
  2. Last Christmas, BP launched a new national ad campaign to tout its progress in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico 20 months after its deepwater well exploded on April 20, 2010, causing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 3 weeks ago
  3. An oil spill like the one we saw in the Gulf of Mexico would have far worse consequences in the Arctic
    SOURCE: Deutsche Welle 3 weeks ago
  4. Chevron’s pace of drilling in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico is ahead of our pre-moratorium pace
    SOURCE: Houston Chronicle 3 weeks ago
  5. Would the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S., for example, not send someone out to that (BP Deepwater Horizon oil) blowout that they had in the Gulf of Mexico?
    SOURCE: Canada.com 3 weeks ago
  6. The dolphins are preserved in giant freezers in marine labs across America. Tagged, catalogued, carefully guarded – and suspended in liquid nitrogen for the moment when they will determine BP's final bill for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, which started two years ago this Friday…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 3 weeks ago
  7. NEW ORLEANS – Two years have passed since the April 20, 2010, blowout of BP's Macondo well triggered an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and spawning the nation's worst offshore oil spill…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 3 weeks ago
  8. ARATARIA BAY, La. — Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion that touched off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, scientists are beginning to suspect that fish in the Gulf of Mexico are suffering th...
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 3 weeks ago
  9. BP needs to be held accountable, not only for the environmental damage it caused but also for misleading investors that it had adequate safety procedures in place, when such procedures were not fully implemented in the Gulf of Mexico or applicable to the Deepwater Horizon
    SOURCE: The Beaverton Valley TImes 3 weeks ago
  10. Dying dolphins and whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico provide a grim reminder that the ecosystem there still has not recovered two years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 3 weeks ago
  11. The BP Deepwater Horizon spill caused the tragic loss of life and extensive environmental damage in the Gulf of Mexico ... Another result of this immense disaster was to Ohio pension systems providing retirement benefits for current and future retirees that invested in BP in good faith and were adversel...
    – Mike DeWine SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch 3 weeks ago
  12. Seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is among the most tested in the world, and, according to the FDA and NOAA, it is as safe now as it was before the accident
    SOURCE: Discovery News 3 weeks ago
  13. The Deepwater Horizon, an oil well deep beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, is owned by the drilling company Transocean and leased to the energy giant BP
    SOURCE: OpPapers.com 4 weeks ago
  14. Seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is among the most tested in the world, and, according to the (Food and Drug Administration) and (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), it is as safe now as it was before the accident
    SOURCE: International Business Times 4 weeks ago
  15. Friday is the second anniversary of the explosion at BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and spilled upwards of five million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 4 weeks ago
  16. It's a bit like saying BP had a problem [with oil pollution] in the Gulf of Mexico but they haven't had any problems at Wytch Farm, which is a very sensitive area in southern England
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 4 weeks ago
  17. With production halted in the Gulf of Mexico after BP’s accident, the US concentrated on producing more gas from existing deposits and succeeded to produce gas in excess
    SOURCE: Russia Today 1 month ago
  18. Last month, the U.S. Senate demonstrated its commitment to restoring the Gulf of Mexico's economy and environment by approving the RESTORE Act. Known as SB 1400, it is an amendment to the Senate transportation bill…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 1 month ago
  19. It’s hard to believe that this month marks two years since the Deepwater Horizon unleashed the largest oil spill in our nation’s history in the Gulf of Mexico…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 1 month ago
  20. Obama has done much to impede the supply of petroleum products to consumers. Most particularly, he exploited the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an excuse to clamp down on oil drilling in the Gulf and also along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
    SOURCE: Media Matters for America 1 month ago
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  22. Royal Dutch Shell says a sheen of oil, 10 square miles in size, has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell said the sheen is one mile wide and ten miles long and is located in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, between its Mars and Ursa drilling platforms. The platforms are both located 130 miles sout...
    SOURCE: CNN 1 month ago
  23. Two years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, there are still clear signs that the environment along the northern Gulf of Mexico, especially in Louisiana, continues to be affected by oil pollution, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Wildlife Federation…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 1 month ago
  24. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly two years after oil from BP's busted well in the Gulf of Mexico fouled coastal marshes, scientists are studying the impact on some of the area's tiniest residents: bugs…
    SOURCE: Environmental Defense Fund 1 month ago
  25. If the U.S. government had had the same level of reaction to the Gulf of Mexico accident, the president of BP would have had to be sentenced to life in prison
    SOURCE: Inter Press Service News Agency 1 month ago