News Stories Related To: Effect of Mississippi Oil Spil in New Orleans
By: LauraLS 
A large fuel spill that has shut down 100 miles of the Mississippi River for four days has had a limited impact on wildlife so far, but officials are worried about fragile wetlands downstream....
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- News Source: Merced Sun-Star | 5 months agoBooms are in place to contain a fuel oil spill in the Mississippi River at the Port of New Orleans, Friday, July 25, 2008. The Coast Guard reopened the Mississippi River to limited traffic, as work continues to clean up fuel oil that spilled when a...
- News Source: AFP | 5 months agoThe Mississippi River reopened to limited traffic on Friday, two days after a barge collided with a tanker spilling hundreds of gallons of fuel oil, the US Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard had closed off a 100-mile stretch (160-kilometer) of the...
- News Source: Press TV | 5 months agoThe oil spill covered about 90 percent of the Mississippi river in New Orleans, spilling about 9,900 barrels or about 416,000 gallons of oil, resulting in the shutdown of one of the world's busiest ports on Wednesday. Gary LaGrange, executive...
- News Source: Fox News | 5 months agoThe Coast Guard says the Mississippi River has reopened to limited ship traffic following a massive oil spill. Nearly 200 ships are stacked up in a bottleneck on the bustling waterway to commerce. Port officials say it will take days to clear the...
- News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald | 5 months agoShips began crawling up the Mississippi River at New Orleans in a tightly controlled procession Friday, two days after a massive oil spill shut down a stretch of one of the nation's most critical commercial arteries. The pecking order was based on...
- News Source: Times Daily | 5 months agoLee Celano for The New York Times Absorbent barriers floated along the banks of the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Thursday. The pungent oil smell kept tourists in the French Quarter away from a riverside path. A sheen of oil coated the...
- News Source: The Examiner | 5 months agoCoast Guard a 41-foot smallboat from Coast Guard Station New Orleans patrols a safety zone around the partially sunken barge Wednesday July 23, 2008 as industry officials prepare a salvage plan for the barge. Early Wednesday morning the motor vessel...
- News Source: CNN | 5 months agoTwo fuel barges were cleared Friday to enter Mississippi River waters that have been off-limits since a massive oil spill from a barge that collided with a tanker, a U.S...A worker carries mops soaked with fuel oil on a bank of the Mississippi River...
- News Source: USA Today | 5 months agoThe first of 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill began crawling down the Mississippi River Friday after the Coast Guard reopened the waterway to traffic, but it could be days before all of the ships are cleared. A 100-mile stretch of the river has...
- News Source: International Business Times | 5 months agoCrews had sopped up about 9,500 gallons of oil from the fast-flowing river by early Friday, a fraction of what was stored aboard a barge that split open early Wednesday in a collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara. The Coast Guard said...
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