BATON ROUGE, La. (April 28) -- The Coast Guard today began burning a portion of an oil spill spewing into the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion of a giant drilling platform in an attempt to stop the slick from reaching sensitive environmental areas and the Louisiana shoreline.
L.A. Times - News — The Coast Guard planned to set fire to oil leaking from the site of an exploded drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, a last-ditch effort to get rid of it befo... more info
AOL Music — BATON ROUGE, La. (April 28) -- The Coast Guard today began burning a portion of an oil spill spewing into the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion of a giant drilling platfo... more info