According to Reuters, crews were working August 23 to control an oil well blowout that has forced evacuation of homes and businesses near Belle Rose, Louisiana, about 70 miles west of New Orleans, officials said.(See item5)
Seven people are in intensive care, and 130 people have sought treatment, one day after an August 23 ammonia leak at a coastal Alabama plant that freezes chickens, Associated Press reports.(See item 32)
