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One month in, neither the oil spill or the blame game show any signs of letting up.

A top US official says BP may be "pushed" aside if it fails to perform in the Gulf of Mexico oil clean-up.

Oil giant BP conceded Thursday that the Gulf of Mexico oil leak is larger than it originally estimated, adding more worry as portions of the ...

Federal officials said Sunday that engineers have succeeded in vacuuming up some of the oil that has been leaking from the Deepwater Horizon's drilling well, the first progress in containing the BP spill since the Horizon exploded and sank last month.

After a setback Saturday in its tube strategy to slow the flow of oil in the Gulf, BP is giving it another shot on Sunday.

The Obama administration warned BP in a strongly worded letter Saturday that the federal government expects the oil giant -- and not taxpayers -- to pay all damages associated with the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil leak, even if they exceed the $75-million liability cap under federal law.

The effort to place a massive containment dome over a gushing underwater wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico was dealt a setback when a large volume of hydrates -- icelike crystals that form when gas combines with water -- accumulated inside the vessel, a BP official said Saturday.

Sarah Palin, who popularized the "drill, baby, drill" slogan, continues to support drilling but targets blame for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill at foreign companies.

A fix by engineers was not expected to immediately reduce the release of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

MMS' fines against BP have been the equivalent of a rounding error. From 1998 through 2007 "when MMS issued its last fine against the company" BP has paid less than $580,000 in penalties for its 12 safety violations. Environmental groups say this simply isn't enough.