Oil slick approaches US coast
A vast oil slick threatening the US coast in the Gulf of Mexico could prove
to be the worst offshore spill in history, experts warned on Thursday.
By Tom Leonard in New York
Published: 10:02PM BST 29 Apr 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/7653324/Oil-slick-approaches-US-coast.html
US officials said five times as much oil as previously thought was leaking
from a ruptured BP well.
The British energy giant launched what it called the biggest containment
