Environment

There Is Another

Another oil spill in fairly close proximity to the Deepwater Horizon site.

NEW ORLEANS (AFP) - US authorities will investigate reports that another oil spill is sullying Gulf of Mexico waters not far from the site of the BP disaster, the top official overseeing the cleanup and containment effort said Tuesday.

The Press Register newspaper based in the Gulf city of Mobile, Alabama, was one of several US news outlets reporting that a second spill had occurred at the Ocean Saratoga rig operated by the Diamond Offshore drilling company.

Apollo program for clean, affordable energy, Mr. President? Soon?