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The Best Writing on the BP Oil Spill
Photo: Wilson Bilkovich/Creative CommonsWhat We Read and Learned from The Deepwater Horizon DisasterA year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and setting off a chain of events that would
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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
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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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RAN Labels Chevron's Defense Team 'Human Rights Hitman', Launches New Website
It's been month since the historic ruling in Ecuador that found Chevron guilty of polluting a large swath of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In response, as it has said all along, Chevron has vowed to not pay the $8.6 billion fine imposed on it, and on Thursday
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Toxins from BP Oil Spill Fell as Rain Over Populated Areas, According to NASA
The massive oil spill that took place in the Gulf of Mexico about a year ago is still having repercussions:
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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:
