SF News UPDATED: Another Oil Rig Just Exploded in the Gulf of Mexico There was an explosion this morning on the Vermilion Oil Rig 380, 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast, west of the site of the Deep Water Horizon blast.
SF News Whoa: Voracious Oil-Eating Bacteria Swiftly Cleaning Up Gulf Spill So you know how BP and various others have been trying to sell us on the idea that the gargantuan oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico had somehow magically disappeared? Well, now
SF News Oil Stops Spewing Into Gulf for First Time Since April BP successfully stopped the gushing oil well from gushing just now, choking off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April. About goddamn time, people. This
SF News Zennie Explores Oil Eating Bacteria Citizen journalist and onetime e-friend of SFist, Zennie Abraham (we hope he's forgiven us for that Oscars incident, but we digress), was taking a break from World Cup mania and walking down the
SF News Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Bigger Than Bay Area The Deepwater Horizon spill is a "a massive ongoing oil spill stemming from a sea floor oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico that started with a suspicious oil well blowout on April