Coast Guard federalizes response to Plaquemines Parish oil spill The Coast Guard ramped up response efforts Thursday afternoon, bringing in federal help. To stream WWL TV on your phone, you need ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday that it has federalized the ongoing effort to contain an oil spill that began Saturday in lower Plaquemines Parish.

Located in lowermost Plaquemines Parish on the extreme fringes of the North American continent, this windswept shoal was a place of many names, ... along with logs and masses of mud-caked debris.

An 83-year-old well is gushing a mixture of oil and gas into the coastal marshes of Plaquemines Parish. The United States Coast Guard ramped up efforts to contain it on Thursday.

The amount of oil discharged is still unknown. Spectrum OpCo LLC, which the Coast Guard has said is responsible for the spill, was in charge until the Coast Guard took over, The Advocate reports.