Oil Canals May Have Played Key Role in Katrina Disaster
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers has gotten the brunt of criticism for the disaster, but many scientists say that oil drilling may have played a decisive role in bringing the Mississippi River Delta to the brink of collapse.
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The federal agency faces tough questions over trailers it supplied to Katrina survivors that turned out to be hazardous
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By LaRose, Greg  Hurricane Katrina is the most costly natural disaster in U.S. history judging by insurance payouts.  But levee failures along the 17th Street, London Avenue and Orleans Avenue canals were man-made catastrophes.
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Now that the hurricane season has ended, New Orleans residents notice a lag in work to rebuild the cityÂs flood protection infrastructure.
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An oil spill has closed the U.S. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, six miles west of Lake Charles, Louisiana, said the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday.
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An oil spill added to the misery caused by widespread flooding Monday as thousands of evacuees in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas waited for water to recede from their homes.
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The US government is to let oil refineries borrow crude from its emergency stockpile to make up for supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan.
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A federal judge in New Orleans on  Tuesday approved a $330 million class action settlement between  Murphy Oil Corp. and residents of a New Orleans suburb flooded  by crude oil during Hurricane Katrina.
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About 1,500 workers in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz struggled to clean up oil and oil-soaked sand and vegetation on Friday after 5,000 barrels of crude leaked into a river leading to the Gulf of Mexico, coating local beaches
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The boom in Gulf of Mexico oil  exploration since the 1970s made New Orleans a hub of the U.S.  energy industry, but the devastation caused by Hurricane  Katrina in 2005 has led some oil companies to move out, a  mini-exodus that could grow.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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A federal judge in New Orleans on Friday ruled that residents of areas heavily flooded when Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters were funneled down a New Orleans navigation channel can sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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U.S. energy companies that operate  in the Gulf of Mexico are better prepared to keep petroleum and  natural gas supplies flowing if hurricanes hit this year than  they were during 2005&#39;s disastrous season, U.S. government and  industry officials said Wednesday.
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As locals, volunteers, and soldiers continue to clean a week after a 10,000-ton spill, some wonder if a faster government response could have mitigated the disaster.
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Carcasses of unused oil equipment litter the Gulf Coast. Now they're being repurposed to harness the power of the wind. By John Geoghegan from Wired magazine.
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Hurricane Ivan drilled the US Gulf Coast, killing 20 people and causing up to 10 billion dollars in damage. The Florida Panhandle was hit the hardest, where residents were left with surge-ravaged beachfronts
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Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a hurricane with heavy storm surge this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.