Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that ...

SkyTruth, which uses satellite imagery and other technology to identify environmental problems, has produced imagery showing ...

The well, owned by Spectrum OpCo LLC, is located in shallow water off the coast of Plaquemines Parish about 20 miles south of Venice near Garden Island Bay.

That spill of nearly 13,000 barrels of oil flowed into a creek traversing a pasture. An engineering consulting firm said the bend in the pipeline at the site had been “overstressed” since ...

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