On Our Radar: A Dust Storm in Oklahoma In a reminder of the Dust Bowl days, a reddish brown wind storm shuts down Interstate 35 in far northern Oklahoma. The area has suffered through an extended drought, and farmers had recently loosened the soil while preparing for the winter wheat season. The Coast Guard confirms that oil in a slick discovered in the Gulf of Mexico is seeping from a 100-ton device that BP used weeks after the Deepwater Horizon spill in a failed attempt to cap the Macondo well. The Houston Chronicle Water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron touched an all-time low for October last week and are likely to decline to record levels in coming months, forecasters say. The Chicago Tribune The unfolding debate over whether natural gas should be exported from terminals along the Oregon coast. Oregon Public Radio Hillary Clinton calls attention to energy as a foreign policy priority, citing the oil riches of Iran and the South China Sea as issues where diplomacy and economics converge. Bloomberg News Businessweek