LOS ANGELES -- The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that inspections ...

LOS ANGELES | The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the oil rig be ...

In fact, the agency's inspection frequency on the Deepwater Horizon fell dramatically over the past five years, according to federal Minerals Management Service records. The rig blew up April 20, ...

VENICE — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says federal inspectors have found no major problems after they looked at 30 offshore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Salazar spoke today after touring ...

The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico – with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface – when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the ...

The federal agency responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the rig be inspected at least once per ...

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Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington — Federal inspectors failed to conduct nearly a third of required inspections on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the 28 months before it exploded and sank in the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that ...

LOS ANGELES — The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the oil rig be ...