Deepwater horizon
NEW ORLEANS - Officials say four workers critically injured in an oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast are doing much better.
NEW ORLEANS - Federal regulators had already been working on new safety rules for offshore drilling when an oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast this week, the latest and most glaring accident in a string of dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries in the industry over the last several years.
NEW ORLEANS - Coast Guard officials on Friday suspended the three-day search for 11 workers missing since an explosion rocked an offshore oil rig, saying they believe the men never made it off the platform that erupted into a giant fireball.
NEW ORLEANS - Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art oil rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already convinced them that changes were needed.
NEW ORLEANS - No oil appeared to be leaking after a drilling rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said Friday, though officials were trying to contain what spilled from the blast and prevent any threat to the coast's fragile ecosystem.
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