Mandatory evacuations were ordered southeast of New Orleans on Thursday as the city and a surrounding stretch of the Gulf Coast braced for a possible hurricane over the weekend that could unload heavy rain and send water spilling over levees. ...

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A new federally led study of oil seeping from a platform toppled off Louisiana’s coast 14½ years ago found releases lower than other recent estimates, but contradicts the well owner’s assertions about the amount and source of oil. Oil and ...

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Tossing bags of billions of federal bucks at state and local governments desperately in need of cash hasn’t everywhere elicited tears of gratitude or knees bent in thanksgiving to the Obama administration. In South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford says he ...

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