Locale hit by Katrina oil spill empty a year later
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - Eileen Schwartz stands on   the sidewalk in front of her one-story house with new, blue   siding, refurbished after the biggest environmental disaster   created by Hurricane Katrina.
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 27--LANDON ROAD -- The thousands of wrecked vehicles that filled farmland off Landon Road in Gulfport stood as a constant reminder of Katrina's devastation.
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So far, the hurricanes that have blasted Florida and the Gulf Coast this year have largely spared the Washington area. But they can -- and have -- happened here.
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Like many other New Orleanians nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina, John McCusker was experiencing the overwhelming stress of rebuilding his life.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, NFLD. -- An environmental assessment panel predicted seven years ago how hard it would be to clean up oil spills from a project off Newfoundland that spilled 170,000 litres into the Atlantic last week.
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NEW ORLEANS Five offshore oil rigs were set adrift in the Gulf of Mexico and three others were damaged by Hurricane Ivan. The Coast Guard says it received a report from Diamond Offshore that a 335-foot semi
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By Penix, Matthew  Oil and gas infrastructure was left mangled when Hurricane Katrina rambled through the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. Vast amounts of work needed to be done by engineering firms already short on employees.
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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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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 8--A year ago, Katrina wreaked havoc on many aspects of life in South Mississippi. Often concern for the environment and our natural resources took a back seat to the immediacy of rescue, relief and recovery.
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina, much of the "city that care forgot" still lies in ruins. But Otis Biggs' task as he shuffles his Tarot deck this moist August day is to peer into the future to 2015, the storm's 10th anniversary.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 8 -- Hurricane Katrina left more than gutted houses and empty streets along the Gulf Coast.
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Exxon Mobil says it is slowly removing contamination from a 1950 oil spill in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but some say the efforts are a bare minimum.
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One year after Hurricane Katrina tore   into New Orleans, the region's hospitals and nursing homes   remain devastated and uncertain of their ability to cope with   another disaster.
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The mild 2006 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close Thursday without a single hurricane striking the United States &#151; a stark contrast to the record-breaking 2005 season that killed more than 1,500 people and left thousands homeless along the Gulf Coast.
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It wasn't the flooding that drove Dr. David Jones out of New Orleans for good. His house in the Lakeview neighborhood stayed dry. Instead, it was the way Hurricane Katrina eroded the orthopedic surgeon's practice.
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Bureaucracy and a lack of money are slowing the rebuilding of New Orleans nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina hit, Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday.
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The Canal Hotel sits eerily alone, surrounded by sandy hills and a filthy creek. Its blue and white arches still hang over a gaping black hole that spans three floors, where a year ago a truck packed with explosives blew up outside the building, the Baghdad headquarters of the United Nations.