After a week of uncontrolled spillage, a leak pouring more than 70,000 gallons of oil into a Louisiana marsh has been contained, according to the Coast Guard. However, cleanup of the area ...

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported ...

"For the sake of Louisiana's communities and sensitive coastal environment, government officials should stop letting oil companies skip out on their well-plugging responsibilities," he added in a ...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week.

An oil spill that leaked more than 34,000 gallons out in a southern Louisiana bayou over the weekend ... and so far say that results are "well below actionable levels." Clean-up operations were ...

Louisiana ranks 10th among states with the most orphan oil and gas wells. An analysis by EDF found that 230,000 people in the state live within a mile of an orphan well, including 15,000 children ...

Photo caption: A photo of an orphaned oil well in St. Martin Parish taken in 2010. Photo courtesy Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources finalized a ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Oil well spews thousands of gallons into Louisiana marsh, clean up underway: See aftermath ...

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported ...