Tag: Gulf Oil Spill - Page 3
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A Year Later, 530 Miles Of Gulf Coast Still Contaminated With Oil
Nearly a year after the Gulf oil spill and persistent PR on the part of BP to the contrary some 530 miles of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida remain contaminated by oil, a spokesperson for NOAA has told Bloomberg. At the height of the spill
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Using Dispersants Makes Oil Spills Worse, Scientists Find
I hate to say I told you so -- and I won't. Not exactly. But ever since I first discovered that there were myriad environmental and health risks involved in dumping a toxic chemical dispersant on the Gulf in
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Is Official BP Spill Death Toll Too Low? New Data Shows 1,200 Oiled Birds Found in Pensacola Alone
Everyone seems to be forgetting about the BP spill -- except, of course, for the millions of people still dealing with it every day. So, in an effort to prevent the event from vanishing from our collective memories
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House of Reps Passes Bill to Expand Offshore Drilling
Just weeks after the 1-year anniversary of the BP Gulf spill, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would force the US government to offer more offshore drilling leases to oil companies. All but
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Voters Want Clean Energy, Not Drilling, Poll Finds
I reported yesterday that there's a major push from the GOP to vastly expand offshore drilling and to loosen regulations to boot -- they have, evidently learned zilch from last year's catastrophic disaster in the Gulf
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GOP Launches Push to Expand Offshore Drilling
Remember that epic disaster that killed 11 people, soiled miles of coastline around the Gulf of Mexico, wiped out thousands of jobs, damaged the ecosystem there in ways that we're only just beginning to understand, and made
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Take a Look at How Deep the BP Spill's Impact Goes With NRDC's Interactive Graphic
As we all know, there's more to the BP spill than meets the eye. The extent of the damage wasn't just the thousands of birds that got oiled -- it goes much deeper. A good way to understand just how deep it goes is to play around with NRDC's cool
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In New Film, Residents of the Gulf Say Impact of Spill Persists
Screenshot from the documentary Stories from the Gulf. The film, which airs on Planet Green Saturday, April 23 at 2:30 p.m. EST, features interviews produced by NRDC and Bridge the Gulf and recorded by Story Corps. Robert Redford provides the opening
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Brother of Rig Worker Killed on Deepwater Horizon Makes Passionate Appeal to Congress (Video)
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig may have led to the greatest environmental disaster in American history, but let's not forget about some of the other devastating impacts it had -- for instance, it left 11 innocent men dead. In the above
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TreeHugger TV 2011: Philippe Cousteau On The Anniversary of the Gulf Oil Spill (Video)
It's been one year since the Gulf oil spill and as Philippe Cousteau explains in the video above, despite the fact that graphic disaster portion of the event is behind us, the damage is still not healed, the region still not recovered. As Philippe
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BP Spill One Year Later: The Biggest Unanswered Questions
Around this time one year ago, reports were trickling in that an oil rig owned by BP in the Gulf of Mexico had suffered a major explosion, and that over a dozen workers were missing. As the story unfolded over
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The Oil We Don't Spill Is More Ecologically Damaging Than The Oil We Do Spill
With all the recaps of what's happened (and not) one year on since the Gulf oil spill, Carl Safina is making the media rounds (via Mark Bittman in the New York Times, with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!) bringing
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30,000 Confidential Government Documents About The Gulf Oil Spill Made Available By Greenpeace
Here's one for the more enterprising investigators in the TreeHugger audience: Under the Freedom of Information Act Greenpeace has collected some 30,000 confidential documents related to the Gulf oil spill and made them
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87% of Americans Want BP's Fines Paid to Gulf States Not US Treasury As Planned
With the anniversary of the Gulf oil spill tomorrow, there's no shortage of commentary and analysis going on. On the funding restoration front: The Nature Conservancy is touting an unfortunate
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Anniversary of the Gulf Oil Spill: It's Time To Demand a National Energy Conversation
When 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days last spring and summer, we saw that we
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Spill a Picnic Basket this Earth Day
The Nature Conservancy is encouraging folks to Picnic for the Planet this Earth Day, April 22. Sounds better than what we did last year, as in watch the beginning of the BP oil spill. So if you're looking for something to do, step
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Warning: Photos of Newly Dead Gulf Sea Turtles Will Ruin Your Friday
I know the weekend beckons, spirits are high, and that most of you out there have a few short glorious hours till freedom. But I'm here to ruin all that. Kate Sheppard alerted me to a series of photos of the dead sea turtles from MSNBC that keep
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Nation's Largest Power Company to Shutter 18 Coal-Fired Generating Units in 3 Plants
The Tennessee Valley Authority is the nation's largest public power company, and as such, it's responsible for running many of our oldest and dirtiest coal plants. It was also responsible for that little ash
