Oil and gas plumes found at site of 13-year-old leak in Gulf

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Federal regulators have found fresh evidence of an "ongoing oil release" at the site of a 13-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, where chronic sheens often stretch for miles off Louisiana's coast, according to government lawyers.

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