Tag: Gulf Oil Spill - Page 4
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Gulf Residents March 1,200 Miles to Congress to Call for BP Spill Action
We're almost upon the one year anniversary of the BP Gulf spill. And though much of the nation seems ready to forget about the devastation wrought on the region, Gulf residents are still coping with the impacts from the spill even today. Rising gas
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Gulf Coast Resident Marches to DC from Louisiana to Demand Justice After BP Spill
Many Gulf Coast residents' lives have been changed by the BP spill -- whether through lost jobs, health woes, marred property values, or otherwise. And while a cumbersome system has been put in place to pay out claims made by impacted residents, it by
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Transocean Gives Execs Multi-Million Dollar Bonuses In The Same Year It Caused Biggest Oil Spill in US
In case you haven't heard the most Orwellian bit of news in the first week of April: Transocean, the company which was operating the Deepwater Horizon oil rig when it exploded and caused the largest oil spill in
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50 Times More Whales & Dolphins May Have Been Killed By Gulf Oil Spill Than Officially Reported
That potential evidence against BP may be much worse than previously reported: A new paper in Conservation Letters (via Nature.com) claims that the number of dolphins and whales killed in the Gulf Oil Spill could be
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Each Dead Dolphin in Gulf of Mexico Treated As Potential Evidence Against BP
More on the abnormally high number of dead baby dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico: Huffington Post reports that the official US government investigation into what's behind the deaths--suspected, not unreasonably at first glance, to be linked to the BP oil
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Another Oil Spill Hits the Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico can't catch a break. Just a few short months after everyone (except Gulf Coast residents) forgot entirely about the BP spill, it
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BP Still Wants to Work With Libya's State Oil Company
In an apparent attempt to secure the title of 'world's most despised oil company', BP has announced that its contracts with the Gaddafi-controlled state oil company are "still valid", according to Reuters.
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Dead Baby Dolphins in Gulf of Mexico Were Stillborn
An update on why dozens of baby dolphins are washing up dead in the Gulf of Mexico: The Sun Herald reports that federal officials have determined that some of the infants were stillborn--an important finding in discovering the exact cause of the
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80 Dead Baby Dolphins Have Now Washed Ashore in the Gulf & We Just Don't Know Why
Some important questions about the now 80 dead baby dolphins washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico from NRDC Switchboard:
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Clams Could Become The Newest Tool In Oil Spill Cleanup
Natural solutions for oil spills, especially the recent Gulf spill, is at the top of every environmentalist's list. And while everything from mushrooms to bacteria are being explored, there is one
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NIEHS Launches Major Study Of Gulf Oil Spills' Health Impacts
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has announced that it will launch a massive, long-term study, to help
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Dead Baby Dolphin Death Toll Rises to 60 Along Gulf Coast
Updating the story from three days ago on dead baby dolphins washing up at 10 times the normal rate on Gulf Coast beaches: And then there were 60. Initial reports said that 17 dead baby dolphins had been discovered
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BP Tried to Trick Scientists Into Underestimating Spill Size (Video)
Yet another heartwarming revelation has emerged from the depths of the ongoing saga of the BP Gulf spill -- and yes, that saga is still continuing, even if most folks who don't live in Louisiana, Alabama, or Mississippi don't seem to be aware of it.
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Dead Baby Dolphins Washing Up Along Gulf Coast at 10 Times Normal Rates
Not too much in way of detail on this yet, but scientists from the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies are reporting that dead baby dolphins are washing up along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Alabama
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Gulf Oil Spill Caused Inches of Dead Animals & Oil to Coat Seafloor
Ten months on since the Gulf Oil Spill started and we get a new assessment of how bad things were and are in the deep parts of the gulf. BBC News has summarized the work of University of Georgia's Professor Samantha
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US Not Ready to Drill in Arctic: Gulf Spill Response Leader
Thad Allen, the Rear Admiral of the US Coast Guard charged with heading up the BP spill response in the Gulf, has issued a frank warning about the perils of drilling in the Arctic. Simply put, we're not ready to
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770,000 Gallons of Dispersant from BP Spill Didn't Degrade
Perhaps one of the most controversial elements of the BP spill saga was the oil giant's use of large quantities of chemical dispersent Corexit to attempt to break down the oil both spewing from the wellhead and on the slick on the ocean surface. The
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Toxic Oil Spill Chemicals Showing Up In Gulf Coast Residents' Blood
Nine months after the Gulf oil spill and the effects of exposure in Gulf residents is starting to show up in people's blood. The Institute for Southern Studies reports that the Louisiana Environmental Action
