BP could soon squirm its way to a sweet settlement deal this week for the Gulf oil disaster—a move that would allow the company’s pockets to continue to expand on the heels of their record profits, while leaving more uncertainty…
Gulf Oil Spill
Want to help show your love for the Gulf this Valentine’s Day? It’s easy. Just click on one of the messages below to tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that you…
This week, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) will vote on a bill that includes a measure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The Arctic Refuge is our greatest wilderness icon and is home to caribou…
On Feb. 9, SkyTruth released its Site 23051 Cumulative Spill Report showing an estimation of the total cumulative amount of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico at the site of Taylor Energy’s ongoing oil spill that began…
With BP Settlement Likely, Sierra Club Calls on Obama to Restore the Gulf Coast
Sierra Club
02-07-2012
Michael Brune, Sierra Club executive director, called on President Obama Feb. 6 to take strong action in any settlement of claims under the Clean Water Act and Oil Pollution Act from BP’s 2010 Gulf of…
BP Profits $3 Million Each Hour in 2011—Attempts to Evade Responsibility to Gulf
National Wildlife Federation
02-07-2012
Reports on Feb. 7 indicate that BP made a major profit for 2011. BP announced that it made a profit of $25.7 billion during the 2011 calendar year. BP’s fourth-quarter profits alone reached $7.69 billion…
Two years ago this month, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig began drilling on the Macondo Prospect, an operation that would result in one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Now, as we contemplate…
Waterkeeper Files Suit against Taylor Energy for Ongoing, Seven-Year Oil Spill
Waterkeeper Alliance
02-02-2012
Waterkeeper Alliance and several Gulf Coast Waterkeeper organizations filed suit in Federal Court Feb. 2 against Taylor Energy Company LLC under the citizen suit provisions of the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation…
The Jan. 26 announcement by the U.S. Department of the Interior to sell leases and allow offshore oil drilling in 38 million acres in the Central Gulf of Mexico is troubling, because the regulatory oversight…
Announced Jan. 26, the Southern Environmental Law Center’s (SELC) 4th annual list of the Top 10 Endangered Places of the Southeast targets areas of exceptional ecological, scenic, or cultural value that are facing immediate…
An inability to acknowledge that one has been wrong is one of the reasons this culture is killing the planet. Collectively, we cannot simply acknowledge that, as Jared Diamond has said (and many others…
Gulf Change, a group of Gulf Coast mothers, grandmothers and concerned citizens, is calling for an immediate Congressional hearing concerning actions needed in order to address the continuing…
EarthEcho International Adds New Resources to the Water Planet Challenge Site
EarthEcho International
01-23-2012
EarthEcho International, a leading environmental education nonprofit organization, is working with the NEA Foundation and Discovery Education to bring educators and students new resources to EarthEcho’s…
During the summer of 2010, the nation watched in horror as gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. While many outside the Gulf region are hearing that we are back to normal, we continue to find tarballs…
The dunes sagebrush lizard, a small, rare lizard that lives only in Texas and New Mexico, was named one of 10 U.S. species most urgently threatened by fossil fuel development in a report released Jan. 19 by…
Wherever big polluters degrade America’s environment—and it is still a common occurrence all across the country—they take similar steps to win the public’s trust and limit their legal liability…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) paved the way to opening roughly 63 million acres in the Central Gulf of Mexico today by issuing its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the…
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A New Year Brings New Opportunities for the RESTORE Act
Restore the Mississippi River Delta
01-10-2012
There is one unanswered wish many residents along the Gulf Coast are still hoping for this New Year—passage of the RESTORE Act (Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist, Opportunities and…
The British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico killed wildlife, destroyed coastlines and damaged local economies. Despite pleasant weather and calm waters, cleanup still took months and…
The Obama admin-istration has proposed an offshore oil drilling plan for the next five years that would allow drilling in the pristine Arctic Ocean and more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico before adequate safety standards are in effect…
How bad was 2011 for America’s wildlife, air, water, land and public health? After taking 191 anti-conservation votes, even the House of Representatives’ own members called it ”the most anti-environment House in the history of Congress”…
I had the pleasure of seeing The Big Fix documentary recently and am so grateful to filmmakers Rebecca and Josh Tickell, and the other people involved in making the film…
On April 22, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico creating the worst oil spill in history—killing 11 men and injuring 17 others. Until the oil well was capped on Sept. 19, 2010, 205 million gallons of crude oil and more than 1.8 million gallons of chemical dispersant…
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New Oil Drilling Lease Ignores Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Southern Environmental Law Center
12-13-2011
The federal government ignored the impact of British Petroleum’s (BP) 200 million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since…
biodiversity
RESTORE Act Fines Could Provide Job Opportunities in Gulf Coast, 32 Other States
Environmental Defense Fund
12-05-2011
The Clean Water Act penalties from last year’s British Petroleum (BP) oil disaster could kick-start the launch of a long-term investment in ecosystem restoration and create jobs that would benefit at least 140…
The LA Weekly calls The Big Fix “Mandatory viewing.” The new documentary film mixes daring journalism with archival investigation. The result is a true-life eco-horror story. Opening theatrically in New York City on Dec. 2 through Dec. 8…
biodiversity
New Website Focuses on Mississippi River Delta Restoration
Environmental Defense Fund
11-28-2011
Conservation groups launched a new website Nov. 28, www.MississippiRiverDelta.org, focused on restoring one of America’s greatest natural resources, the Mississippi River Delta. The site houses…
Eighteen months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, we have another country threatening to ban an oil company after a deep water spill. It was Brazil’s turn Nov. 21 to say it might ban…
A new oil spill that began Nov. 8—estimated to have released as much as 157,000 gallons per day into Brazil’s Campos Basin—is the latest evidence of the dangers of offshore drilling…
The BP Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, 2010. Most of us thought the spill was cleaned up and the problem went away. Unfortunately, to a large extent, the event has been supplanted…
