Oil spill tops 1 million gallons, threatens Gulf of Mexico wildlife – the Washington Post

Plaquemine Parish. 1998 (by Dr. Terry McTigue, courtesy of NOAA CC BY 2.0 DEED via FLickr).

Skimming vessels are working to contain and recover oil from a spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, which the U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday estimated to be at least 1.1 million gallons. The spill was discovered Thursday near a 67-mile pipeline operated by the Main Pass Oil Gathering Co., owned by Houston-based Third Coast Infrastructure, and the Coast Guard said it was still reviewing whether that pipeline was the source of the contamination…