This article was originally published on Truthout. Residents who live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, all…
Environmental Protection Agency?: U.S. Gulf Coast Residents’ Pleas for Help Continue to Be Ignored
Michelle Nix, from Pensacola, Florida, founded the group Gulf Coast Oil Spill Volunteers in an effort to be pro-active…
This article was originally published on Dahr Jamail’s Dispatches, from Al Jazeera English. James Miller, a commercial shrimper, lifelong…
Despite Heavy Oil, Louisiana Keeps Fisheries Open
NEW ORLEANS – Massive slicks of weathered oil were clearly visible near Louisiana’s fragile marshlands in both the East…
Gulf Residents Likely Face Decades of Psychological Impact From BP’s Oil Disaster
This article originally appeared on Truthout. While the devastating ecological impacts of BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of…
BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico’s Food Chain
NEW ORLEANS – Environmental experts warn that the ecosystems and food chain in the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding…
Where’s the Outrage? EPA Betrays Coalfields (Again) With New Mountaintop Removal Permit
I’m not sure if the EPA is addled, or downright shameless, but on the heels of meeting with besieged…
Feel like we’re living in a summer of hopeless environmental disasters and faltering energy policy leadership — the spewing…
Cultural Extinction: Fear of No Recovery in the Gulf
As BP’s deepwater well continues to discharge oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the economic and public health effects…
Moving Forward With the BP Oil Spill?
The great oil spill of 2010 has called forth anger, sadness and opinion from all quarters. It is truly…
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