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…
Broad Coalition Rallies for BP Accountability
Baton Rouge — Gulf coast fishers, conservationists, seafood distributors and oil workers rallied here at Louisiana’s capital over the…
Evidence Refutes BP’s and Fed’s Deceptions
This article was originally published on Truthout.org. In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor,…
Dispersing Disaster in the Gulf
In mid-July we visited the town of Barataria, located about an hour’s drive south of New Orleans. The community…
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…
Hell Has Come to South Louisiana
Clint Guidry is a shrimper from Lafitte, Louisiana. As we sit together, he shows me a picture of his…
This article originally appeared on Truthout. From the air, the area north of Grand Isle, Louisiana, much of it…
No Free Press for BP Oil Disaster
New Orleans — Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard, working in concert with oil giant BP, instituted new restrictions…
U.S. Double Standard: BP and Bhopal
When President Barack Obama went after BP and demanded a $20 billion dollar fund be set up for victims…
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