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U.S. Coast Guard Continues Investigation of Reported Oil in Breton Sound
WGNO NewsThe Coast Guard continues to respond to the report of an oily substance in Breton Sound near Venice. An HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft and crew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., conducted an overflight assessment and located a sheen...Tags: U.S. Coast Guard
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TWO MEN WANTED IN COPPER THEFTS, ARRESTED
ABC26 NewsSheriff Craig Webre announced the arrest of two men wanted in connection with a series of copper thefts in Lafourche Parish. Warrants for the arrest of Joseph Gaddis (W/M, DOB 10/2/1968, 180 Lake Drive, Raceland) and Douglas Schmidt (W/M, DOB 5/10/1983,...Tags: Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, WGNO, Theft, Police Arrests
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Rough Weather Curtails Some Gulf Cleanup Work
ABC26 NewsA whale of an oil skimmer is being put through its paces in the Gulf of Mexico, but lousy weather means it may be longer than first hoped before officials know if it can work full-time sucking crude from the sea. The Taiwanese skimmer dubbed "A Whale"...Tags: Louisiana, Disasters, Hurricanes, Florida, Water Pollution
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Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida Join Forces To Boost Economy
ABC26 NewsOfficials, organizations and businesses from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi are forming a new economic development coalition for the Gulf Coast. Dubbed "Ready 4 Takeoff," the coalition is calling for federal government purchases of seafood...Tags: Louisiana, Disasters, Florida, State Budgets, Foods and Beverages
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Gulf Coast Incident Management Team Established In New Orleans
ABC26 NewsThe Unified Area Command for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill consolidated Incident Command Posts Monday. ICP's originally located in Houma, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama relocated to a central Gulf Coast Incident Management Team at a new location in New...Tags: Fishing, Louisiana, Environmental Issues, Disasters, Water Pollution
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Ala. governor: Coast Guard boom plan faulty
ABC26 NewsAlabama Gov. Bob Riley is angry about U.S. Coast Guard decisions he says have left parts of the northern Gulf Coast vulnerable to pollution from the Gulf oil spill. Riley says the Coast Guard wrongly decided to remove oil barriers from the Alabama and...Tags: Louisiana, Environmental Issues, The Associated Press, Disasters, Water Pollution
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Gulf oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real
ABC26 NewsThe wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings,...Tags: Nature, Louisiana, Environmental Issues, Disasters, Natural Resources
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Plenty Of Gulf Volunteers, Not Enough Work To Do
ABC26 NewsThe Gulf of Mexico oil spill has brought out thousands of people who just want to help - though there isn't much for them to do unless they own a Hazmat suit. Directors of charities and BP PLC - the company responsible for cleaning up the spill unleashed...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Louisiana, Disasters, Florida, Social Services
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Crude souvenir: $1,000 bottles of spilled BP oil
ABC26 NewsThink of it as a crude souvenir of the nation's worst environmental disaster. As part of a relief effort to help seafood industry laborers thrown out of work by the BP oil spill, a group headed by Kevin Voisin (VWAH zan) of Houma is offering sealed glass...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Louisiana, Disasters, Florida, Social Services
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White House: Obama Ready To Seize Claims Process
ABC26 News- President Barack Obama is reassuring people in Gulf Coast states that he's up to the enormous job of helping them recover from the disastrous oil spill, laying the groundwork for a prime-time speech Tuesday night. His chief spokesman said Obama is...Tags: Richard Nixon, Entertainment, Television Industry, Louisiana, Environmental Issues
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Oil Spill 'Too Much' for Skipper Who Killed Self
ABC26 NewsTwo weeks after he was hired by BP to help with the oil spill cleanup, William Allen Kruse killed himself. The 55-year-old charter boat captain shot himself in the head Wednesday morning as he prepared to spend another day skimming oil off the waters...Tags: Fishing, Health and Safety at Work, William Allen, Environmental Issues, Thad Allen
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Rough weather curtails some Gulf cleanup work
ABC26 NewsCleanup crews across the Gulf of Mexico surveyed damage done by last week's hurricane while contending Sunday with choppy seas that idled many of the boats dedicated to keeping oil from hitting vulnerable beaches and marshes. Offshore skimming vessels...Tags: Louisiana, Disasters, Hurricanes, Florida, Natural Disasters
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