Everything You Need to Know About the BP Oil Spill: A Complete Compilation of Stories

British Petroleum's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has garnered extraordinary media attention over the past two weeks.  The oil spill has penetrated multiple sectors of society as its implications on the environment, economy, government, and the energy industry continue to grow.

As a result of the magnitude of this situation there have been numerous articles written about the disaster.  A common theme when a lot of information is produced is for some of it to get lost or become hard to find.

This post is specifically designed to not let that happen.  This is a compilation of every EnergyBoom article written on the spill and its subsequent effects on the planet and society.

I have separated our coverage into five very general categories: environment, containment efforts, politics, energy industry, and images and video.

This post will continue to be updated as new articles are added to the archives.

Environment

• Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: An Ecological and Economic Nightmare

• Louisiana bracing for BP oil spill coastal touchdown

• Details on the potential impact on wildlife from BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill

• Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Update: slowing winds may spell *some* relief

• BREAKING: Oil Spill Hits Louisiana Wildlife Refuge

• BP's Oil Slick Hits Louisiana Coast, Now Threatening Mississippi Delta

• Update: Oil Expected to Hit U.S. Mainland

• 20 MPH Wind in the Gulf has "Potential to Move New OIl Onshore

• Update: Oil Hits Precious Raccoon Island and May Reach Mexico

• Rep Ed Markey to Launch Formal Inquiry Into Size of BP Oil Spill In Gulf of Mexico
  

• 70,000 Barrels a Day - BP Oil Spill Much Larger than Previous Estimates

• Reef Hit By BP Oil Slick, Florida Keys Threatened

• BP and Coast Guard Blocking Media from Public Beaches

• BP Oil Spill Update: 19% of Gulf Waters Closed Off, Fishing Industries Paying the Price

• Louisiana Governor: "The Day We've Been Fearing is Upon Us" as Oil Blankets Marshlands

• State Department Confirms International Outreach on BP Oil Spill

Containment Efforts

• Oil Spill Dome Details Released

• Controlled Burn Approved: Coast Guard to light Gulf of Mexico oil slick on fire

• Answering the Deepwater Horizon Oil Pipe Size Question

• BP Officially Ditches "Operation Top Hat" Moves to Insertion Tube to Stop Oil Spill

• Unclear if Riser Insertion Tube Will Stop Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak

• How Much Oil is Spilling From BP's Deepwater Disaster Everyday?

• Experts Say BP Withholding Valuable Data on Gulf of Mexico Oilspill

• More Controlled Burns Done to Contain Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

• State Department Confirms International Outreach on BP Oil Spill

• BREAKING: Federal Flow Rate Technical Team Established To Determine Extent of BP Oil Spill

• Government Orders BP to Post All Oil Spill Datat on the Internet

• BP Now Saying only 2,200 Barrels Being Diverted by Operation Siphon

• Kevin Costner Fights the BP Oil Spill
  

• EPA Tells BP to Use A Less Toxic Dispersant

• Say What? BP to Turn Off Live Underwater Camera During Next Attempt to Plug Pipe
  

• BP Reverses Decision to Cut Video of Operation Top Kill

• What is Operation Top Kill?

Politics

• Why We Need to End the Age of Oil

• The Fallout Continues: Gov. Schwarzenegger Withdraws Support for Offshore Drilling

• BP Oil Spill Shifting the Politics of Clean Energy

• BP Oil Disaster Has Americans Clamoring for Energy and Climate Bill

• U.S. Gov't Offshore Drilling Director Steps Down

• Congressional Hearing to Investigate the Size of BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

• Government Orders BP to Post All OIl Spill Data on the Internet

• What's the Value of the Gulf, Anyway?

• Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: BP's Internal Investigation Shows Warning Signs Abounded Before Explosion

Energy Industry

• Till, Baby, Till: In Wake of the Oil Spill, U.S. Ethanol Industry Lobbies Government Hard

• BP Oil Disaster in America: 1 in 5 Plan to Reduce Oil Consumption

• BP Had No Plan for Responding to Deepwater Oil Disaster

• BP Oil Spill: Executives Play Blame Game at Senate Hearing

• Rep. Ed Markey: BP Might Soon Stand for "Bayou Polluter"

• The Magnitude of the BP Oil Spill Continues to Increase

• BP Gets Caught Up In Its Own Math - 5,000 Barrel a Day Estimate Way Off

• Making History: White House Says Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill is America's Largest Ever

• The Price of the Deepwater Horizon Rig Could Have Bought 33 Billion Kilowatts of Wind Power

Images and Video

• Death of the Horizon Oil Rig:  The First 36 Hours in Pictures

• Breaking: Major Air Spill has Palin Crying "Blow, Baby, Blow!"

• BP's CEO Tony Hayward Outlines Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response

• First Underwater Footage: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill at Source

• BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Bigger than Manhattan

• NASA Satellite Image: "Dull Gray Oil Slick Morphs Into a J"

• BREAKING NEW UNDERWATER VIDEO: BP Oil "Plume" From the Largest Leak

• BP Releases Video of Failed Containment Dome on Seabed - Gives Sense of Scale

• The Next Gulf War [Photos]

• BP Oil Rig Survivor: 'All the Things they Told Us Could Never Happen...Happened'

• Situation Map Shows BP Oil Spill Now in the Loop Current

• Animation Shows Massive Growth of Gulf Oil Spil Over Next Three Days

• Live webcam feed of underwater oil spill to go up tonight

• Louisiana Marshlands Getting Hit Hard by BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill [photos]

• Oil Spill Webcam Goes Live - So How Much Oil is Actually Leaking?

• Circulation Models Show Major Southeasterly Spread of Gulf of Mexico Oil Slick by Monday

• Second Website to Watch BP's Live Feed of the Oil Spill Webcam

• Raw Footage of Deepwater Horizon Collapsing into Gulf of Mexico

• Latest Oil Spill Maps Show Major Spread in All Directions

Image courtesy of NASA