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- AP: 2 years later, fish sick near BP disaster -- Sores, parasitic infections, gashes, mysterious black streaks -- Fish, coral, seaweed, dolphins, mangroves, more (0)
- Gulf Seafood Deformities Raise Questions Among Scientists -- Eyeless shrimp, lesioned fish and other mutated and underdeveloped marine life (0)
- AP: BP oil spill the culprit for slow death of deep-sea coral, scientists say (0)
- NYTimes: Gulf Dolphins Exposed to Oil Are Seriously Ill, Agency Says (0)
- Gulf Coast Children Experiencing Health Challenges (VIDEO) (9)
- White House Pressured Scientists to Underestimate BP Spill Size (VIDEO) (6)
- Press-Register: Bloody red lesions on more than half of fish caught in surf off Dauphin Island (PHOTO) (8)
- NOAA Oil Analyst: Oil bubbling up is "dead ringer match" for BP's Macondo -- NOAA spokesman claims it may not be related to blowout (39)
- "This is crazy": BP not tracing source of new crude -- Petroleum engineers say it's possible oil "is moving up around the outside of the sealed well pipe" (11)
- Report: New oil leaking in Gulf "could be impossible to stop" -- Vent would increase in size over time due to highly pressurised reservoir (23)
- AP: Deposit of flammable gas could have played a role in Gulf disaster -- BP failed to report findings (9)
- "Jellybeans"? Liquid oil bleeding from tarballs -- "Collecting in little pools on the sand" (18)
- BP could have stopped Macondo blowout, but let oil flow to protect well for future use: Federal lawsuit (36)
- WKRG: "Not hard to find oil on the beach and in the water" in Gulf Shores -- "Like a debris field of tar balls" (VIDEO) (9)
- Report: Vessel seen sampling oil for BP near Macondo well -- Could be from "natural" seeps says spokesman (PHOTO) (28)
- Pilot finds more oil bubbling up at Macondo on consecutive days -- BP denies crude is leaking, inspects relief well with ROV (PHOTO) (27)
- Newswire: Dispersants Used by BP in Gulf Linked to Cancer -- "Illnesses we observed were quite unique and different from anything that I had ever witnessed" says doc (9)
- Reporter's footage of "oil popping up all around the boat" -- "Right here behind the motors they're coming up pretty good" (VIDEO) (3)
- WaPo writer "can't imagine" Macondo well has come back ... Top expert: "Looks suspicious" -- There may be a pathway for oil to move up via annulus (7)
- CONFIRMED: Oil bubbling up above Macondo well is chemical match to BP's crude, says NOAA's Ed Overton (PHOTOS) (9)
- CBS: LSU professor says BP oil disaster likely cause of Gulf fish with eroded fins and large dark lesions -- Almost 50% of snapper had infections in some areas (VIDEO) (7)
- Report: "Oil Rising Again from Macondo Well" -- Crews worked to contain "what was becoming a massive slick at the site of the Macondo wellhead" (13)
- Report: Is BP’s Macondo Well Site Still Leaking? Fresh Oil on the Gulf Raises Concerns (3)
- BP denies reports of oil leaking from site of Deepwater Horizon disaster (1)
- 7-mile oil slick found in Gulf of Mexico -- Local official believes it's from BP disaster (256)
- NOAA warns of sick fish with lesions and discolored skin in Gulf -- LSU scientist studying problem "very worried" (62)
- Deformed single-celled animals and plants found in oily sediment from Gulf — Other toxic effects observed near Desoto Canyon (23)
- Scientists discover oil-containing “dirty blizzard” — May still be falling to bottom of Gulf of Mexico (13)
- Stomach-turning: “The Rape of Grand Isle” — Large crane appears to be dumping oiled shoreline sand into ocean (VIDEO) (20)
- Fort Walton, FL "covered in oil and dispersant" (PHOTOS) (61)
- "Huge red flag": Sick fish in Gulf are alarming Florida scientists -- Skin lesions, fin rot, diseased livers and ovaries (21)
- Report: "Tar patties littered the shoreline for several miles" on island east of Apalachicola, Florida (VIDEO) (95)
- Marine Toxicologist: "Amazing amounts" of oil still coming onshore (VIDEO) (25)
- "Oil blobs" washing up on South Florida beaches near Miami, Ft. Lauderdale (11)
- “Mystery is Brewing”: Why are sharks sharks washing ashore dead near Tampa Bay? (16)
- 500+ pound endangered turtle found dead near Destin, FL — Officials ‘might’ perform necropsy (0)
- RSOE Epidemic Hazard: “Deepwater Horizon Syndrome” (5)
- 30,000 pages of BP oil disaster documents released -- You're part of the research team to see what they say (8)
- CNN reports on "fish with strange sores" in Gulf (6)
- One Year Later: Mainstream media finally reports on sickened Gulf residents (VIDEO) (10)
- Emails expose BP's efforts to control research into impact of Gulf oil disaster (8)
- "Oil Spill Crews Suffer Mystery Illnesses" -- We are seeing more and more people who are desperately ill (4)
- Cleanup worker: Two guys passed out on the deck of my boat… just dropped — “I don’t know if they made it” (VIDEO) (5)
- Russia: BP oil spill has caused far more serious impact on the environment than Fukushima (20)
- Tears: Those son of a bitches said the beach was safe — Now my daughters have more toxins in their blood than cleanup worker (VIDEO) (12)
- Panama City, FL: Man dies of flesh-eating bacteria vibrio vulnificus -BCHD (28)
- Mayor: Tons of tarballs washing up on Alabama beaches (8)
- Longtime oil industry champion now calls BP liars — “They lied. About everything.” (22)
- US officials caught spending Gulf oil spill clean-up funds on gadgets (16)
- Field of tarballs on Florida Panhandle beach (VIDEO) (8)
- Cleanup worker's widow describes husband's battle with a type of Leukemia linked to crude oil exposure (VIDEO) (3)
- Daughters of BP worker thought to have flu, but now believed to be exposure to crude oil — “My little girls have more toxins in their blood than I have” (5)
- Physician: Many more people are sick from suspected oil-related illnesses but scared to speak out or seek medical help (7)
- 10% of dead dolphins found along Gulf coast during 2011 were “coated in oil” (13)
- BP buys barrier island off Mississippi coast — “It’s easier to deal with it when it’s not privately owned” (15)
- Oiled dead dolphin found near the end of March -- NOAA: "Even though they have oil on them, it may not be the cause of death" (7)
- Kindra Arnesen discusses recent troubling miscarriages and her life-long friend that’s now in a box (VIDEO) (20)
- Doctor fears a ‘disease cluster’ is being ignored on Gulf Coast one year after the BP Gulf oil spill (2)
- Oil spill imperiled dwarf seahorses says group -- May soon be classified as endangered (4)
- Cleanup worker: One person after another… I’m having kidney failure, my pancreas is rotted out, my liver won’t stop hurting (VIDEO) (4)
- NSFW: Wounded Gulf activist filmed in hospital -- "Please don't let me die" (VIDEO) (6)
- Tears: At my wits’ end — I’ve lost my job because of BP oil disaster… now I’m going to lose my home (VIDEO) (12)
- WDSU report on Gulf activist: “Gunshot wounds to his forehead and torso” — Niece with “gunshot wounds to her neck and buttock” (7)
- John Wathen honored for his attention to Gulf oil spill, Hurricane Creek (5)
- Severely ill cleanup worker Clayton Matherne receives dedication — 1000s more suffering like him (VIDEO) (2)
- Oil spill in Atlantic -- Thousands of penguins covered by slick, hundreds already dead (3)
- NOAA ship kills three dolphins in Gulf — Lab analyzing carcasses (4)
- Report: Gulf activist shot 4 times through door of home, niece hit twice (6)
- Residents at Feinberg meeting: LIE! LIE! You are such a lying piece of s**t... while talking about health problems (2)
- Physician Speaks About Growing Health Concerns in Wake of BP Oil Disaster (VIDEO) (2)
- Dr. Susan Shaw: “It is easy to find people who are sick from solvent contamination on Grand Isle” (0)
- Report: 300 sick in Orange Beach, AL area… Only 2,500 full time residents (4)
- Cleanup worker Clayton Matherne’s symptoms: Lost half of eyesight, coughing up blood all the time, temporary paralysis… more (VIDEO) (3)
- Tears: Sickened cleanup worker praying that God will just let him die (VIDEO) (54)
- BP must compensate residents and boat crews harmed by Corexit, a new lawsuit claims (9)
- Paper: Cranes sprayed huge clouds of dispersant — Mist went up to 100 miles inland (14)
- Fish with lesions are coming up every catch, fishermen from Pensacola and Panama City say (16)
- Dead baby dolphin washes up in Florida — Indicates something about environment’s health says expert (VIDEO) (39)
- March 21 NOAA meeting: “Shrimpers said they have pulled up nets full of oil” (4)
- Expert uses satellite imagery to estimate size of recent Grand Isle Oil Spill at over 600,000 gallons and almost 3,500 sq. km (22)
- Deadly Alabama infections from a bacteria "most commonly found in water" (5)
- 9 dead in Alabama from "lethal bacteria" -- "Unusual number of high-risk patients infected with a certain type of bacteria" (VIDEO) (1)
- Dispersants harmed Gulf residents and cleanup crews, lawyers say -- Diseases can appear months or years later (0)
- Study: Death toll from Deepwater Horizon disaster may be 50 times higher than believed -- "A grave underestimation" (3)
- “There’s people getting sick everywhere and nobody realized how bad it is” says Mississippi resident (VIDEO) (17)
- NOAA stranding expert: Dolphin carcasses are washing up daily — “At least two on Tuesday in Louisiana” (5)
- Oil Spill Victim: Things just started coming out of my skin — It has gotten a lot worse (VIDEO) (5)
- Now the turtles: 39 sea turtles found dead in past two weeks… just in Mississippi — “A sharp jump” (3)
- Casino worker: “It makes me sick to see little kids swimming” — “There’s dead fish everywhere” (VIDEO) (0)
- Attorney General: “More people were concerned with health issues than claims” — “I’m trying to get people access to some medical care” (VIDEO) (0)
- P2S Foreman: Two people from my cleanup crew have died in last two months (VIDEO) (7)
- BP gives Feinberg a raise of almost 50% (VIDEO) (20)
- BP report shows it spilled less oil in 2010 than in 2008 (7)
- Dead sea turtles washing up on beaches near spring breakers -- "Water looks like chicken broth" (PHOTOS) (13)
- Physician treating oil cleanup workers: “These people, they are going to die… I’m telling you, we are going to lose patients” (2)
- Endangered 45-ton whale washes up on Virginia coast (VIDEO) (2)
- Feds investigating Nungesser for events in 2007, subpoenas issued (16)
- EPA ship just beginning to monitor Gulf for oil, results could take a year -- Florida Keys, Miami and Atlantic Coast next (5)
- 6 dead dolphins found in Massachusetts -- "Only recently weaned from their mothers" (9)
- "Very unusual" fish kill says Gulf State Park spokesman -- "They're all over, dead and we don't know why" (VIDEO) (27)
- BP confident things are safe “in the short term”… Long term health problems? Not so sure (10)
- "Gruesome discovery along the beaches of Gulf Shores" Alabama (VIDEO) (26)
- MSNBC: "From oil plumes to dead zones in the Gulf" (VIDEO) (3)
- Wilma Subra wins Human Rights Award (4)
- "Gag order" issued in dolphin death investigation -- "It throws accountability right out the window" says biologist (29)
- Thousands dead in Jacksonville fish kill — “Blood cells burst when tainted water is sucked into their gills” (5)
- Relax says BP: It’s safe to touch “non-toxic” tar balls — Seafood is most safe in the world… who cares what medical professionals say (VIDEO) (21)
- “Slick is exponentially larger and may cover more than 100 square mile” according to satellite imagery (VIDEO) (13)
- Coast Guard confused about THREE different areas of "suspicious water" (6)
- "Mysterious" oil came from a "well-capping went out of control" says state official -- Coast Guard and BOEMRE still not sure where it came from (24)
- NBC reports on oil in the Gulf -- Large areas of water covered, up to 100 miles long says fisherman (VIDEO) (3)
- Kids feeling impact of oil spill... and situation is getting worse (VIDEO) (1)
- MORE: “New swaths of what could be fresh surface oil have popped up on the other side of the Mississippi River” (5)
- Official: It’s the “peanut-buttery substance workers grew accustomed to seeing at the height of the Deepwater incident” (6)
- Coast Guard: This is definitely crude from the Gulf (11)
- Physician on Corexit: Ethylene glycol is antifreeze, Methanol is wood alcohol — 10 CCs blinds you, 30 CCs kills you (8)
- Physician: I’ve seen 40 patients with oil spill-related ailments (2)
- Significant increase in crystal meth abuse because of oil disaster: Baldwin County Sherriff (1)
- Flyover witness: “Smell of petroleum was thick in the air” above giant plumes — Coast Guard says sediment from dredging (25)
- Coast Guard puzzled by source of 30-mile stretch of oil (16)
- Current TV: Thousands of Gulf Oil Spill clean-up crew are dying (VIDEO) (29)
- UPDATES: More oil washes up on Grand Isle, boom being laid... MORE (0)
- Coast Guard source says there's been another oil spill in Gulf: Dauphin Island Mayor (VIDEO) (21)
- Oil confirmed by local official — 5-mile stretch seen offshore; Oil already reached Grand Isle, Port Fouchon (1)
- “Hard to believe I was seeing as much oil in the So. Louisiana area again” — “This disaster is far from over” – John Wathen (PHOTOS) (43)
- Photos of "100-mile long oil slick spotted off Louisiana coast" -- "Slick is rapidly expanding" (13)
- UPDATE 4 -- “Slick was sighted by a helicopter pilot on Friday and is about 100 miles long”: Source – via Huffington Post (14)
- Report: Fresh oil coming ashore near South Pass — “Crews are laying new boom near the beach” and spraying “a substance” (6)
- UPDATE 3: Times-Picayune reports on potentially “massive” 100 mile long oil sheen (1)
- Updated Report: “Trouble brewing” at MC243; Eyewitness reports differ from officials — John Wathen going for aerial view (0)
- Report: New huge spill near Deepwater Horizon, at MC243 — Slick is 100 miles long, skimming started days ago (30)
- Oil sheen 20 miles north of Macondo (0)
- Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO) (2)
- NOAA meeting: “I haven’t been in the water since July 10th — I woke up on July 11th spitting up blood” (1)
- Massive shark at Panama City Beach: “It’s very interesting because they are cold-water fish” — “Extremely rare” in Gulf (1)
- BP speaks out on mass dolphin deaths: Cold water, virus, infection, or naturally occurring neurotoxin — No mention of oil/Corexit (11)
- 9 more dead dolphins found this week, Gulf total now 114 this year — NOAA has yet to send out ANY samples for testing (3)
- “Death case” and other test cases likely to prompt settlements by BP — “They can’t afford to have the public find out how bad they’ve been” says attorney (3)
- Insider Trading: Did BP use knowledge of actual flow rate to engage in illegal stock sales? (6)
- Nuclear power defender now says “I think we are facing another Chernobyl” (27)
- Garlic, ginger, ginko biloba, melatonin, magnesium recommended for radiation exposure: Retired Neurosurgeon (VIDEO) (0)
- Commander of US Naval facility in Japan: “It’s unprecedented. Please be orderly. Do not panic.” — “First, Women And Children” (VIDEO) (20)
- Medical Doctor from Miami: We really have to take this seriously — Low dose radiation can increase cancer risk (2)
- Gulf of Mexico nuclear plant has “crack” in reactor’s containment building (2)
- Problems with crab in Gulf — Fishermen know something is amiss (2)
- Watch UN’s nuclear plume forecast animation for US (VIDEO) (5)
- Particles to cross Atlantic and reach Europe: Swedish official (2)
- Bury reactors with cement and sand (VIDEO) (0)
- Southern California to be hit by radioactive plume on Friday says UN forecast – NY Times (5)
- US Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair: “Extremely high” radiation levels — No. 4 spent fuel rod pool has NO water & may not be able to be corrected (0)
- EPA deploying more radiation monitors to West Coast — Refuses to answer questions (11)
- Just In: New plumes of smoke coming from reactor No. 3 building reports Kyodo – BBC (0)
- *Breaking* IAEA confirms core damage at reactors No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 - "Very serious" (1)
- EU Energy Commissioner: There could be catastrophic events within hours… Situation effectively out of control (1)
- Russia: Nuclear crisis "reaching worst case scenario" (1)
- Particles from Asia regularly drift to U.S. — 6 to 15 days to cross Pacific (0)
- Must See: Interview about spent fuel rod pools with former White House official (VIDEO) (0)
- TEPCO still unable to resume work on cooling reactors due to radiation risk (1)
- Deadly atomic cloud poised to spread death and misery across country — US experts fear upgrade to level 7, same as Chernobyl (0)
- America on radiation alert — Experts warn fallout may reach U.S.: Paper (12)
- Toxic benzene remained in Gulf, only small portion escaped into atmosphere: NOAA (6)
- Just In: EIGHT more dead dolphins found in Mississippi and Alabama (4)
- BREAKING: TEPCO unable to pour water into spent fuel storage pool at No. 4 reactor (4)
- We are witnessing an “apocalypse” in Japan says Germany’s Foreign Minster (0)
- TEPCO: Spent fuel pool is now exposed to outside air at No. 4 reactor (0)
- Forecast map shows radiation nearing U.S. — South of Alaska in less than a week: Hong Kong Observatory (3)
- Reporters were angry during TEPCO press conference — “They kept asking what to do to stop the radiation leak, but company officials had no answers” (0)
- *ALERT* BBC: Explosion may have damaged No. 2 reactor's containment vessel — Japan nuclear agency (0)
- Iodine and Cesium detected in Tokyo (0)
- Radiation near Tokyo 40 times normal levels (0)
- Times Picayune: Woman begins walk from New Orleans to Washington for victims of oil disaster (5)
- Protest at BP operations center — Up to 500 people to camp out for days starting Wednesday (3)
- “Veneer of cover-up to be peeled off in the next day or so and then we’ll get to the real facts”: Nuclear Consultant (0)
- Michio Kaku: “We are now going into uncharted territory” — “This could be a Chernobyl in the making” (VIDEO) (0)
- Expert: Multiple reactor crises at the same time — “We’ve never had a situation like this before” (VIDEO) (1)
- AP Breaking News: Nuclear fuel rods appear to be melting in all 3 of most troubled reactors (8)
- Radiation now DOUBLE the maximum level that had previously been detected: TEPCO (1)
- BBC: Meltdown alert at Japan reactor (0)
- Nuclear Consultant: “They are absolutely not giving the whole story” — Situation is “absolutely critical” (0)
- NHK: Fuel rods at No. 2 have been melted — Radioactivity detected in atmosphere around plant (0)
- Professor: “This disaster is even more dangerous than Chernobyl” — Particles “can wander thousands of kilometers” (0)
- Countries now testing Japanese imports for radiation — Most at-risk items are dairy, fruits, and vegetables (2)
- Some foreign firms “don’t have confidence in what the government is saying any more” and are moving staff out of country (0)
- Breaking: No. 2 reactor has “lost all of its coolant” — “Pressure rising” (Explosions already at No. 1 and No. 3) (0)
- U.S. warships and planes move away from Japan’s coast because of radiation from nuclear plants (0)
- Cooling system pump stops at ANOTHER nuclear power plant -- Tokai No. 2 (0)
- Another dead baby dolphin found at Pass Christian, MS (0)
- France urges citizens to leave Tokyo area, citing damaged nuclear plants and future earthquakes (2)
- 'The Road to Washington' begins in New Orleans -- 9 am CDT this morning (Delayed 1 hour for daylight savings) (33)
- BBC: Second troubled reactor uses PLUTONIUM plus uranium -- Potential for more severe situation than #1 (2)
- "First meltdown, even partially, that Japan has experienced": NHK World (2)
- We are assuming that a meltdown has occurred at No. 1 AND No. 3: Cabinet Minister (2)
- Analyst: Pouring seawater on reactor is “essentially waving the white flag” (VIDEO) (0)
- Meltdown would cause radiation so intense it would be impossible to deal with: CNN (4)
- “It is my opinion that there could be a very large leak” says nuclear analyst — “This has gone beyond Three Mile Island” (1)
- Cabinet official confirms “radiation leak” at plant — “Explosion blew the roof off the facility”: Reuters @ 6:38 am EST (3)
- Caesium indicates we have gotten to the point of meltdown says nuclear expert on CNN (2)
- Analyst on CNN: “Going to be very difficult to contain” — “It looks like they lost the race against time” (0)
- CNN reports winds are forecast to bring possible fallout towards Tokyo (0)
- High level official: “Most likely that a partial core meltdown is now underway” — “This is really the worst possible scenario in a reactor” (VIDEO) (2)
- Team of scientific divers sickened after wearing full wet suits in Gulf — Bleeding from eyes, blood in stool (7)
- Taco Bell told to buy Gulf shrimp, troubled fast food chain touts “Pacific Coast” shrimp instead (24)
- “It’s not stopping” -- “The levels we are seeing are not dropping, and we’re seeing NEW chemicals now” (18)
- 'The Road to Washington' begins in New Orleans (3)
- United Gulf Festival presented by Gulf Change and Project Gulf Impact - Westwego, LA (0)
- NOAA's Washington, D.C. Public Scoping Meeting (0)
- NOAA's Texas Public Scoping Meeting -- Galveston (0)
- Texas Public Scoping Meeting - Port Arthur (0)
- NOAA's Louisiana Public Scoping Meeting - Morgan City (0)
- NOAA's Louisiana Public Scoping Meeting - Grand Isle (0)
- NOAA's Louisiana Public Scoping Meeting – Houma (0)
- NOAA's Alabama Public Scoping Meeting – Mobile (0)
- NOAA's Louisiana Public Scoping Meeting – Belle Chase (1)
- NOAA's Mississippi Public Scoping Meeting – Biloxi (0)
- NOAA's Florida Public Scoping Meeting - Panama City (0)
- NOAA's Florida Public Scoping Meeting - Pensacola (0)
- Gulf of Mexico: Spilling Crude Oil Where We Once Spilled Sperm Oil — New Bedford, MA Whaling Museum (0)
- Scientist predicts martial law to be imposed: “Beaches will eventually be closed to everyone besides clean-up vessels” — “Air quality will sharply decline” (30)
- LSU professor: “There’s nothing there” — Fishermen “telling us that the reefs are just dead” (2)
- NOAA Study: Massive plumes of aerosolized oil “likely posed a health threat” — Problems range from aggravated asthma to premature death (3)
- Physician says “this may be a brand new illness” — Swimmer covered in oily substance diagnosed with “rare” bacteria similar to oil-eating microbes (VIDEO) (22)
- “A Huge Number”: Shrimp tests show 4,000+ ppm petroleum hydrocarbons — Caught last week off Alabama coast (LAB REPORT) (2)
- “Most Concerning”: Chrysene found in waters off Perdido Key, Florida — Effects include “increased risk of cancer, chromosomal aberrations, genetic damage” (14)
- BP CEO apologizes for Gulf disaster… to oil industry (4)
- *UPDATED* Happening Now: Stand by… “BIG” news coming from Michelle Nix (0)
- Man covered in “orange slick stuff” while swimming near Destin is now “pissing blood, vomiting dark brown stuff” (2)
- 33-year-old dead after two weeks working BP cleanup and swimming at Florida Panhandle beach (7)
- Giant jellyfish, other creatures wash ashore in Ocean Springs (PHOTOS) (1)
- "Our ecosystem has been messed up": No mosquitos, no yellow flies, no gnats in Alabama bayou after Corexit spraying — “Well, that’s not really a bad thing” (VIDEO) (1)
- Dozens of seals wash up on New Jersey beaches — Suffering “respiratory infections and parasites” (VIDEO) (0)
- NASA oil spill scientist: “I know there were clouds filled with hydrocarbons” — Discusses “Gulf Coast Health Syndrome” (10)
- 10,000+ now suffering effects from oil disaster… Gulf residents are walking to Washington D.C. on March 13 for help (5)
- Dead baby dolphin yesterday in Waveland, Mississippi — Media no longer reporting findings, only offering speculation and alternate explanations (1)
- Banksy: World’s top street artist takes on the BP Oil Disaster (PHOTOS) (4)
- Lisa Nelson passed away today — Face, neck swelled to “three times normal size” after trip to beach in September (VIDEO) (29)
- Latest videos from the Florida Panhandle (VIDEOS) (7)
- Video of Gulf oil rig fire near site of Deepwater Horizon blowout (VIDEO) (6)
- Two people rescued after oil rig fire near site of BP Blowout — Flight space restricted (0)
- Air Force gives special award to unit for spraying Corexit — “It’s something that just doesn’t happen” says spokesman (16)
- Cold or HOT water could be to blame for ‘abortion storm’ says leading newspaper reporting on dolphin deaths — Calls Corexit “nontoxic” (19)
- Pensacola Beach: “1,000′s of dead animals” & discolored sand as far as the eye can see (PHOTOS) (51)
- Dispersed oil “everywhere” on Pensacola Beach — Not where is the oil… BUT WHERE IS IT NOT (VIDEO) (12)
- “Not Normal”: Top side of dead dolphin is all black — Skin is most definitely burned says expert (VIDEO) (5)
- 27-inch thick layer of oil-contaminated sand found -- Researcher hypothesizes they are digging holes and burying it (VIDEO) (5)
- “Red Flag”: Oil spill study finds almost HALF of residents suffering “unusual spike” in health symptoms (17)
- Mahogany Tide: Toxic plankton invades Mobile Bay — Known to cause death and illness in humans after consuming poisoned shellfish (PHOTOS) (10)
- “Bogus” claim made by leader of BP-funded cleanup worker health study says legal expert (3)
- Four dead dolphins found visibly oiled — Reuters can’t get story straight, reports NONE showed signs of oil contamination (29)
- New York Times article shows why public might want to think twice before trusting the E.P.A. (16)
- Same labs used by FDA and BP are finding “significant amounts” of oil toxins in crabs — Can be directly related to BP’s crude (VIDEO) (0)
- Head of Dauphin Island Sea Lab discusses "competing" for future BP funding & BP’s "intent" behind giving them money… During BP-funded video (2)
- Mississippi man’s blood tests show extremely high Xylene, Ethylbenzene — Now passing out for an hour at a time (LAB RESULTS) (0)
- Four more dead dolphins found this morning in Alabama, Mississippi (PHOTO) (0)
- LSU Scientist: “You go out to the marshes and they are silent — We’re in danger of becoming a Silent Spring” (1)
- Woman reports troubling symptoms after swimming in Gulf — Burning lesions all over body & face, "I keep finding more and more of them" (8)
- Dolphins too? Shark researchers “looking at fertility and if the animal’s reproductive systems have been affected” by oil disaster (VIDEO) (0)
- Natural gas injection wells linked to earthquakes: Officials say “enough evidence to request an EMERGENCY cease order” — Danger known since the 1960s (CHART & VIDEOS) (20)
- Florida Paper: Many health-related complaints from people who didn’t do cleanup work (3)
- “We’re still in for major impacts” -- Not safe to eat, drink, fish or walk around (VIDEO) (8)
- Editorial: BP helping pay for NIEHS health study will “inevitably taint” project — Who will believe it? (1)
- Another cleanup worker blinded — Doctor: “I am most certain that the toxins that are in his blood attacked his optic nerves” (1)
- Cleanup worker with terrible pain is crying himself to sleep — Internal bleeding (VIDEO) (2)
- Researcher: Recent harmful algae blooms in Gulf are “rare” during February — Could be a sign of “far larger and nastier bloom this summer” (3)
- Nonprofit organizations may be able help with BLOOD TESTING and DETOX for people affected by oil disaster (VIDEO) (0)
- Toxic sand? Oil on Florida beaches not gone, but pulverized into microscopic particles — A shade darker than before (5)
- Experts agree education is key: People need to get together and pass the word around about situation in Gulf (VIDEO) (9)
- Veterinarian who suggests measles-related illness may be causing ‘abortion storm’ in dolphins admits virus “is NOT known for causing infected animals to abort” (2)
- Secret Study: Radioactive material dumped into Gulf of Mexico — “Most toxic substances known to man” (1)
- Report: Particularly deadly night on Perdido Key, FL (PHOTOS) (2)
- Thick foam found in Mobile Bay — Orange substance in many areas (PHOTOS) (7)
- BP-owned company gets first deepwater drilling permit since disaster — Largest shareholder by far (1)
- Louisiana students suffer mysterious burns during field trip — Could have been chemicals say school officials (VIDEO) (3)
- 4.7 earthquake in Arkansas “could be MAN MADE”: Largest earthquake in 41 years… OUTSIDE of fault system (VIDEO) (8)
- FOX: Woman suffering paralysis in face “induced by heavy metals” — Tests show high levels of benzene, xylene and other chemicals (VIDEO) (6)
- 100,000′s having symptoms from oil disaster — Could be just the tip of the iceberg says physician (VIDEO) (16)
- Even though dead turtles were “covered in oil”, scientist can’t say they “definitely” died from the oil disaster (VIDEO) (2)
- At least six more baby dolphins found in Alabama and Mississippi alone (1)
- Researcher: No solid evidence that any genetically engineered microorganism was used in Gulf (3)
- Medical Doctor: Disaster in Gulf is a “SIGNIFICANT HEALTH THREAT” for visitors this summer (VIDEO) (6)
- Fox News: Dolphins are canary in the coalmine — “Whatever happens to them WILL eventually happen to us” (VIDEO) (2)
- “Oil and chemical residue still coat the beach” in Ocean Springs, Mississippi – Dead pelicans, fish, turtles, and jelly fish (PHOTOS) (8)
- Scientist on baby dolphin deaths: We expect something is wrong with the food chain (VIDEO) (1)
- Charter boat captain catches zero tuna during peak of season at famous hot spot — Usually 40 boats fishing there, now only two (VIDEO) (2)
- Cleanup worker "directly sprayed" multiple times with Corexit, family swam in water — Now many health problems (VIDEO) (0)
- Researcher on Corexit: “I have heard that ammonium sulfate was added to the dispersant” — Product of sulfuric acid and ammonia (10)
- Dead whale had “bacterial infection” and large abscess near windpipe — External bleeding reported by witnesses (VIDEO) (0)
- 40 percent of the organisms did not survive BP’s beach ‘cleanup’ (1)
- Latest tests find up to 69 ppm oil on Mobile Bay shoreline (LAB RESULTS) (3)
- Researcher undergoes “decontamination” after working with dead baby dolphins (2)
- BP-owned company ditches “green” colors after Gulf disaster — “They’ve now been exposed” (2)
- Dolphins could get fatal “megadoses” from oil that was found in crab larvae (3)
- Two dead baby dolphins found with “what looked like oil on their faces” — “We really can’t speculate” on what caused their death (37)
- Trio of Gulf divers’ blood tests show “exact fingerprint” of chemicals found in BP’s crude — “Passing blood”, “severe nosebleeds”, vertigo (1)
- “Media bribes” offered by Louisiana government — Reporter must write that oil industry lives in harmony with fishing industry (20)
- Seafood restaurant where Obama ate during visit to Gulf is now closed (2)
- Gulf researchers with unusual rash — “I have worked in oily mud for years and it had never made my skin break out. But, this material did. I do not know why” (5)
- Why NOAA’s reasons for baby dolphin deaths don’t make much sense (5)
- Research team “detected FAR MORE methane than expected to the NORTHEAST of the well” (4)
- “Corpse strewn beaches” on Grand Isle (PHOTOS) (9)
- Toxicologist: Toluene and PAHs are known to cause spontaneous abortions — Oil disaster effects “may be hitting more quickly than anybody imagined” (4)
- Tears: “There are no crabs, you know. There are no crabs!” says daughter of crab-processing plant owners (6)
- “Hustling” NOAA now in charge of investigating baby dolphin deaths — “Likely will take MONTHS”… remember Poland? (5)
- Ex-BP hired scientist describes suspicious activities: It suggests to me that BP was purposely trying to deceive everyone (Project Gulf Impact VIDEO) (5)
- Cleanup worker having SEIZURES after diagnosed with benzene poisoning — Coughing up chunks of meat, black stuff coming out of nose & ears, lost half of eyesight (11)
- 2400% increase in baby dolphin deaths: Only ONE was reported in first two months of 2009 along MS, AL coasts (2)
- Federal government's oil disaster research is largely being kept secret (AUDIO) (0)
- New oil showing up on beaches near Grand Isle — Oiled birds being recovered (10)
- Massive BP boycott in works (VIDEO) (1)
- We’re likely to see MANY MORE baby dolphins washing ashore (32)
- Oil eating bacteria may be to blame for baby dolphin deaths says expert (11)
- Homeland Security urged Americans to watch for dead birds as a sign of chemical attack (10)
- Gulf babies exposed to chemicals from WIND at up to 10,000 times levels where effects are seen, model suggests (VIDEO) (2)
- Scientist: A huge number of people very, very sick around Gulf — I see a total lack of health care (VIDEO) (0)
- Baby sperm whale washes ashore in Gulf — "Very rare to have a sperm whale, an endangered species, land on the beaches of Galveston" (7)
- Worst flu season I’ve EVER seen in Louisiana says top doctor — “Shows no signs of letting up” (2)
- Update: Five more dead baby dolphins found yesterday in Northern Gulf -- One near Florida border (0)
- LSU toxicologist finds benzene and xylene in “troubling” concentrations at beach — “A fresh supply of oil” just offshore (1)
- Layer of oil and dead animals on seafloor is up to 4 inches thick — Will “inevitably” have effects on surface species (1)
- Now 20 dead baby dolphins have washed up in Alabama, Mississippi; Most of them found during PAST WEEK -- "More than just a coincidence" (0)
- Strangeness in Florida Panhandle: Ocean glowing blue and “red tide” that’s not blooming — “Never seen anything like it” (VIDEO & PHOTOS) (19)
- 18th dead baby dolphin washes ashore in Northern Gulf of Mexico (VIDEO) (3)
- Crabs and fish wash up on Mississippi beach — More dead horseshoe crabs “than I’ve seen anywhere” over the last 10 months (2)
- Destin-area woman’s blood shows alarming levels of chemicals found in BP’s oil & Corexit — “The public is not being told how dangerous the area is” (LAB RESULTS) (18)
- NOAA’s document-shredding chief assigned to Gulf of Mexico (4)
- 17 baby dolphins found dead in Alabama and Mississippi (PHOTO) (2)
- “OIL RAIN” CONFIRMED by NASA chief mission scientist: Clouds from Gulf did “RAIN OIL” on land (VIDEO) (11)
- Research Tests: Corexit is reponsible for most volatile compounds that cleanup workers were exposed to — “Very interesting” (VIDEO) (0)
- “It looks like there’s a significant amount of gas” NORTHEAST of the well — Methane is “smeared” through the ecosystem (5)
- GRAPHIC: Cleanup worker hospitalized and violently ill — James ‘Catfish’ Miller (VIDEOS) (5)
- Spill Children: Untold Stories of the BP Gulf Disaster (VIDEO, Part 1) (8)
- “Blankets of goopy hydrocarbons several inches thick” taint seafloor in parts of Gulf (0)
- NOAA Chief now admits there's oil on the seafloor... but claims agency has no funding to monitor it (5)
- Deceased LSU scientist refused BP contract, warned others they “need to be very, very careful” (6)
- Dec.1: “Dead crab with oil residue” — “Tube worms so full of oil they suffocated” (PHOTOS) (0)
- ‘Magic’ microbes consumed maybe 10 percent of the oil — Scientists unsure “why this stuff doesn’t seem to be degrading” (3)
- Arkansas earthquakes “could be related to ongoing natural gas exploration” says expert (6)
- Researcher finds oil stuck on seafloor, not degrading as hoped — “Oil-choked bottom-dwelling critters” photographed (0)
- Shock: Well-known LSU coastal scientist dies at 54 from unknown illness — Often spoke about how oil was going to be “coming back” (15)
- Cleanup worker Jennifer Rexford hospitalized: Loss of feeling in right side (25)
- Earthquake in Gulf — 3.5 on richter scale detected near Florida/Alabama border at 5:15 pm (VIDEO) (24)
- Oil sheen reported in Galveston Bay, TX -- "Made some residents feel ill" (6)
- "BP was aware of cementing problems with its Macondo WELLS" before oil disaster (2)
- Human Health: BP Oil Disaster and Chernobyl (6)
- Florida officials restart testing for Corexit and hydrocarbons after taking the last 6 months off (0)
- Reporter: "Ninety percent of the oil from the spill hasn't even made it to the top" -- "In no way is this over" (1)
- Fisherman: "Alarming reports that so many people are ill and remain ill and have the very same symptoms" (2)
- BP complains that Feinberg's settlement terms are "TOO GENEROUS" (5)
- “Farther out in the Gulf we could see discolored water, pinkish-orange looking” — Wake up America you are being lied to! (VIDEO) (10)
- Researcher: “It’s scary” — “There were no signs of recovery” for coral and surrounding animal life (4)
- Report: Paul Doomm update (13)
- “Big Problem”: NW Florida fishermen see massive decline in crabs, fish — BP oil disaster blamed (VIDEO) (7)
- World’s largest bony fish washing up on Florida beaches — Parasites to blame? (PHOTOS) (0)
- Concentration of PAHs in lagoon’s soil has tripled since August (10)
- BP, Feds say NO further treatment? Oil anywhere you look on Orange Beach — “They’re going to leave us high and dry” says official (VIDEO) (6)
- 22 y/o Paul Doomm to be placed in medically induced coma (VIDEO) (9)
- Shrimper says it’s the “worst he has ever seen” — Only 4 buckets of small shrimp in 3 hours (0)
- “People are getting sick down here” says business owner — “They left the oil here… oil’s still all around us” (0)
- Feinberg’s GCCF Ohio “processing” center busted — “They don’t process one claim here… exact opposite of what we have been told” says official (VIDEO) (10)
- “Really Laughable”: 5 people deciding which of 500,000 claims are paid (VIDEO) (7)
- Louisiana Official: Up to 4 million gallons of dispersants have been used in Gulf as of Feb. 1 (12)
- Oil leaking 10 miles from BP’s blowout: PHOTO of “a crew boat appears to be spraying dispersant” — Relief wells being drilled (11)
- “Massive submerged oil tarmats” remain in Gulf waters admits Coast Guard — “More toxic than tarballs” (VIDEO) (1)
- New study found 75,000 times normal amount of hydrocarbon gases which “could have a long-lasting impact on oceanic oxygen levels” (3)
- Paper: “Time may never heal the worst of the health concerns of the spill, concerns that those sickened by oil and chemicals can’t discard” (1)
- Riki Ott: Dispersants and genetically engineered bacteria are still in use — “We need cease & desist orders across the Gulf” (VIDEO) (6)
- People will start dying in large numbers if not addressed now writes top attorney to national media (7)
- MD: Cancer to “SURGE” over next few years in area impacted by oil disaster (VIDEO) (4)
- "Never seen anything like it": No signs of injury on 100s of dead birds just 25 miles from Gulf -- Found in two locations (VIDEO) (5)
- “Unusual” Louisiana ‘Flu’? Top Doc says it’s been “extraordinary this year” — Respiratory problems lasting for 3+ weeks (VIDEO) (2)
- “Football field” of submerged crude found on Florida beach; Officials say “oil washing onshore everyday” — BP claims “the sand is clean” (VIDEO) (3)
- DOA: Crabs “are not living as long as they should” during transit says seafood executive (2)
- And so it begins: FDA Deputy Director calls independent seafood testing “JUNK SCIENCE” (20)
- The List: Is Gulf seafood safe? (MUST READ) (6)
- State of Louisiana: You can eat 1,500+ jumbo Gulf shrimp A DAY and not exceed FDA contamination levels (3)
- Conan O’Brien vs. Gulf Seafood (VIDEO) (1)
- Recent testing finds tar balls contain 93% Corexit and watery goop, only 7% oil says chemist (3)
- Report: Oil blowing inland after heavy ‘cleanup’ equipment and sifters grind it into fine bits — “A most alarming development” (PHOTOS) (2)
- Chemist: Dispersant was found in self-contained fish pond 1/2 mile from Alabama coast; All fish died -- Owner drained, restocked pond and second batch of fish died (3)
- South Florida's Top 20 Under-reported Articles About Oil Disaster (2)
- NEW: Fracking for OIL, not just natural gas — 8 states on tap, and “we’re not done yet” (5)
- Top Oceanographer: The methane may be in Atlantic Ocean, not eaten by bacteria (2)
- State backtracks on massive Florida fishkill: NO indication of low oxygen from algae bloom (0)
- “Dire Situation” in Miami: Shrimpers wonder if BP Disaster to blame for “failure of shrimp to show up” — Oil and dispersant worries (1)
- Strange mist sporadically emanating from C130 aircraft flying low over Florida Panhandle coastline (PHOTOS) (7)
- Tests of Gulf oysters show carcinogenic heavy metal at 150-200 above times the safe level set by EPA (2)
- State Official: Test results "don't matter" -- "You're exposed to more hydrocarbons filling up your car with gas" (VIDEO) (3)
- Overwhelmed: "Millions" of dead fish wash ashore in Florida -- "It irritated my throat"; Many different species (PHOTOS) (3)
- Top 13 animal “mysteries” in and around the Gulf over the last 7 days (3)
- TV: “Dolphin found covered in oil from BP spill recovering in Florida Keys” — Can never be released from captivity (1)
- Official: Fishermen complaining of “mysterious ailments” since oil disaster (VIDEO) (1)
- Shock: World’s deadliest shark found 140 miles inland from Gulf — “I didn’t know what the heck was going on any more” says official (2)
- LSU doctor concerned that Corexit chemical reaction to bring about 'fetal alcohol syndrome' in pregnant women (VIDEO) (3)
- Heartbreaking: Backstage footage showing apparent victim of BP Oil Disaster having multiple violent seizures (VIDEO) (11)
- Judge seizes jurisidiction over BP’s $16 billion oil disaster trust fund — claims of independence were misleading (0)
- Marine biologist: Military spraying chemtrails over Gulf "to promote bacterial growth" (24)
- Dead pelican found floating in foam that had tested positive for Corexit and oil (PHOTOS) (3)
- Dauphin Island, Alabama: Tiger sharks have “increased dramatically” — Yet “there are so few shrimp” (0)
- Avatar’s James Cameron on BP Oil Disaster: Public is being hoodwinked -- “It’s not done” (VIDEO) (3)
- Tragic: 22 y/o has seizure at Gulf Forum -- Brain lesions after swimming off Florida Panhandle (VIDEOS) (2)
- No one is catching ‘sea bob’ shrimp says employee at Lousiana’s largest shrimp buyer — “No one knows why” (12)
- Oil disaster’s health effects “will be felt for GENERATIONS” warns scientist (VIDEOS) (2)
- “Chemicals”? 1000s of dead fish clog Florida shore — “Never saw this before in my life” (VIDEO) (6)
- “Wall to wall man-of-war” in Florida: “I’ve never seen this many ever — I’ve been out here for 24 years” says lifeguard (VIDEOS) (7)
- Updated with video links -- Forum “Truth-Out for the Gulf” this Saturday, Feb. 5 (3)
- Denied: ZERO appealed claims have been approved according to Feinberg (5)
- Duress: Mississippi says BP is violating state law by requiring claimants to sign away their right to sue (1)
- “Full Oil Spill Recovery By 2012… NOT!” — 2005 red tide still impacting Florida fishermen (VIDEO) (4)
- Feinberg refuses to disclose amount of his additional PERSONAL compensation from BP -- "Private information" (VIDEO) (2)
- Censored: “You can’t say that” White House told reporter — “People will get scared” about amount of oil in Gulf (14)
- 100,000 sharks filmed just 100 yards from Florida beach — “I kept on flying for about 20 miles and they just kept on coming” (VIDEO) (9)
- Beached sperm whale dies in Destin, FL — “Bleeding profusely” reported witnesses (PHOTO) (9)
- Large Right Whale found dead near St. Augustine, FL after travelling to Miami -- Scientists trying to determine cause (VIDEO) (2)
- South Florida beach “thickly populated with dead critters” — Seaweed piled 3 feet high (0)
- Dozens of dead starfish wash up in Panama City, FL -- Dept. of Environmental Protection retracts statement (6)
- Another fish kill in Arkansas River - "Majority" were freshwater drum (4)
- 3,000+ foot long mysterious black blob of killer "toxic goo" found near Florida coast -- Appears to be GROWING (58)
- NOAA claims ALL toxic water samples found in Gulf “were NOT from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill” — Blames natural seeps (12)
- BP America’s tweets reminiscent of Saddam Hussein regime according to UK paper (4)
- Florida Keys boat captain says the oil disaster is not over — “Could easily show up in the Keys a few years from now” (2)
- Column: Corexit 9500 is most obvious suspect in recent massive animal deaths (1)
- Feds accuse BP of manipulating gas prices (3)
- Only ONE final payment has been made to oil disaster victims — And it was to a BP business partner (5)
- “Scariest person on earth”: Secret files reveal BP’s CEO moved around as a precaution against Russia’s “Darth Vader” (1)
- BP’s new Russian partner sees Godfather films as “manual for life” according to newly released documents (0)
- “We’re history” if submerged oil washes ashore during a heavy storm says restaurant owner — “He’s worried about what remains in the Gulf” (0)
- 70 percent of consumers in U.S. are concerned about safety of seafood from Gulf (VIDEO) (0)
- More child porn charges in the Gulf — Marine Resources officer from Ocean Springs, MS arrested and faces up to 40 years in prison (5)
- “They’re finding all kind of freakin’ dispersant in the water” says fisherman (2)
- “I can’t even get in the water any more because we get oil on us” — It’s just MUD washing up says cleanup crew (VIDEO) (0)
- More cleanup workers come forward: “Massive health problems”, constant swelling, fluid in lungs, kidney problems, lumps (VIDEOS) (6)
- Tears: Seafood restaurant done after 19 years — NO “fresh shrimp, oysters, and not a single flounder” in cooler since oil disaster (VIDEO) (3)
- Bow to BP: Feds will cut estimate of size of oil ‘spill’ according to EPA source (5)
- Time Magazine mentions the "destruction of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill" (0)
- Joye: "Dispersant does not appear to break down, contrary to what most people thought" (VIDEO) (0)
- There's an “increase of petroleum product” washing ashore in Florida “hot spots” — “It has something to do with the underwater topography” admits BP (43)
- "Unbelievable" number of starfish, crabs, mussels and other sea life wash up dead in England -- Full moon blamed (20)
- “Great damage” done to humans by oil disaster says director of NOAA-administered program (1)
- “The story everybody has been talking about”: “Very disturbing findings” in chemical tests of Gulf residents — Some “bleeding from the ears” or with “blood in the stool” (VIDEOS) (7)
- BP is paying to retrain fishermen so they can get “a new stable job” (0)
- Dolphins living in back bays of Orange Beach that are still “contaminated with oil” — BP has yet to even survey area… “Zero feedback” says Mayor (VIDEO) (10)
- Thousands of dead and dying starfish, clams, crabs, and conchs "littering" beaches on Florida's Gulf Coast -- "Everywhere I looked were struggling creatures" (3)
- Massive BP operation digs up beach in Santa Rosa, FL looking for buried oil — Coast Guard “wouldn’t elaborate” and workers “refused to comment” (PHOTOS) (1)
- Official: Birds are still dying after exposure to oil (1)
- 100s of large containers of “discontinued” Corexit 9527A found near Houston (VIDEO) (8)
- Gigantic fish kill in Arkansas a “mystery” that “can’t be solved” (5)
- Video of the black sludge coating ocean floor (VIDEO) (2)
- Oil leak shuts down BP’s largest onshore field in Western Europe since NOVEMBER — Not made public until yesterday (8)
- Scan of Senator A.G. Crowe's original letter to Pres. Obama -- "Toxicity level may INCREASE with time" (4 PAGES) (2)
- 'First' Dispersant Study Funded by Feds: The Corexit “did NOT degrade”… “It didn’t go away” — May not have even broken up the oil (4)
- Chairman of Surfrider chapter in NW Florida “tested positive last month for large quantities of volatile solvents in his blood” (11)
- NSFW: Sickened cleanup worker shows “oil boils” all over body — “I don’t know where to go from here, this is my last shot” (VIDEO) (84)
- "Really Alarming": No baby oysters being found in most productive areas of Louisiana -- "Scientists are baffled" (VIDEO) (7)
- Congressman reveals that BP official was allowed to review Feds' "Oil Budget" before publication — Listed as “independent scientist” by Obama administration (4)
- "All the fish are dead": Trout now washing up on beach near Galveston, TX -- Even seagulls won't touch them (VIDEO) (3)
- What’s in the Gulf is “going to come ashore next hurricane” says city employee — “Something people oughta look into” (VIDEO) (2)
- Gov't funding retraining for those who "will not be able to return to their previous lines of employment" because of oil disaster (5)
- Cousteau: The oil is at the bottom of the ocean — Disaster's impact to last for decades (VIDEO) (10)
- Professor contracted by BP criticizes news media — Mentions “conflicting interests” (1)
- Editorial Board: “Even when we no longer see the oil” it will likely impact Gulf waters for “generations” (0)
- VOO worker: If officials keep lying to us, we're going to die (VIDEO) (0)
- NEW STUDY: Warmer Water + Corexit/Oil = Massive Increase in DNA-Mutating, Cancer-Causing Enzyme (5)
- Cousteau granddaughter: Gulf’s marine ecology has been destroyed — “Generations of people who relied upon those waters no longer have a way to make a living” (7)
- Alabama Paper: Did anyone really believe the oil just disappeared and that humans wouldn’t be affected? (8)
- Bumble Bee Seafood shuts down processing plant near New Orleans, moves to Thailand -- Official blames oil disaster (0)
- Biocide: Corexit prevents microbes from digesting the oil says official (4)
- ALERT: Louisiana Senator concerned that Corexit “is still being used” (12)
- Family describes being sprayed with Corexit (VIDEOS) (0)
- “Extremely toxic” crude oil could be “slowly killing” the people of the Gulf Coast says LSU columnist (0)
- Matt Simmons’ Ocean Energy Institute “will cease operations Jan. 31″ (1)
- Galveston, TX Update: Dead pelicans and seagulls -- "I have not caught a fish in a week... Every spot I fish is just dead stuff" (4)
- Local offical: “There was never any nearshore sampling” for submerged oil — BP admits “no one in the local beach cleanup is actually surveying” for it (VIDEO) (1)
- BP pressuring Florida county to "sign off" that beaches are clean -- Commissioners refuse because of submerged oil (VIDEO) (5)
- NPR: Oil gusher characterized as a "sneeze" and a "cappuccino maker" (0)
- BK Lim cites NOVEMBER videos showing “oil seepages, gas columns, fissures and blowout craters” around Macondo wellhead (VIDEOS) (18)
- “Hydrocarbons are still leaking out" from the Macondo reservoir writes Oil and Gas Industry expert BK Lim (VIDEO) (1)
- Dead dolphins, sea turtles, and tons of angelfish in Galveston, Texas (VIDEO) (28)
- Two young boys with "some of the highest blood concentrations of the chemicals" found in BP's oil -- One has already "suffered severe respiratory problems as a result" (0)
- Dig two feet on FL beach and "you’ve struck oil" -- "Can contaminate ground water" (1)
- ROV deployed to Gulf platform where hydrocarbon sheen was reported -- Relief well being planned (7)
- 21 months in prison for co-owner of company involved in oil spill (3)
- “Black Water”: NEW oil deposits washing ashore says environmental monitor — “I haven’t seen the oil look like this since the well was capped” (10)
- Jan. 5 “was the worst instance of oil contamination since the BP oil spill” according to Louisiana Bucket Brigade (27)
- Top official reveals that dispersed oil will be in Gulf “longer than anyone here will be alive” according to LSU scientists (2)
- Oil threatens Alabama coast with “IRREVERSIBLE damage” (VIDEO) (7)
- “Just unbelievable”: Dead seals, catfish, starfish, urchins, slugs was ashore in NE Canada — “I’ve never seen anything like it in all my years” (14)
- “Unprecedented” number of dead pelicans in North Carolina blamed on GULF fishermen “since the BP oil spill” (13)
- Florida: Hundreds of pelicans found dead or injured off Jacksonville coast -- Blamed on "chemicals in the water" (VIDEO) (2)
- Shockingly high Benzene levels found in Biloxi, MS blood samples — Includes 10 year-old child (6)
- Hundreds of dead seals washing ashore in Northeast Canada (1)
- “Strong police presence” at Feinberg’s town hall meetings as local officials reference Arizona massacre (6)
- “Some say what he is doing is criminal”: Feinberg and BP are holding the people “hostage” according to Business Support Center (2)
- 1967 UK oil spill: “43 years on, gloopy black oil from the spill was still daily killing wildlife” — “A warning of the possible long-term implications of the BP disaster” (2)
- Has natural seepage been overhyped in the Gulf? “The oil spill was millions of times more concentrated in time and space than the natural seeps” says expert (10)
- Censored: Mayor says people who “act up” at Feinberg meeting WILL GO TO JAIL — Then Fox 10 removes statement from website (PHOTO) (6)
- Thick patches of floating brown foam washing up all over Gulf — Previously tested positive for “oil and dispersants” (PHOTOS & VIDEO) (8)
- Fox News Flashback: Workers stripped naked and scrubbed down by man in space suit — Yet cleanup crews couldn’t wear respirators (VIDEO) (1)
- "I think it's going to be a ghost town" in 5-10 years says Kindra Arnesen's husband David -- "Could shut down many coastal towns" says another (VIDEO) (3)
- Russian government now largest shareholder in BP — “Will almost certainly complicate the politics of levying and collecting damages” from Gulf oil disaster says Congressman (14)
- Five people have died in Grand Isle that had no health problems prior to oil disaster says top official for non-profit (0)
- “Small children with lesions all over their bodies” — “We have got to get some health care” (5)
- Cleanup workers: "Constant wave" of weathered oil washing up near Mississippi delta -- "Rising slowly like a poisonous Phoenix" (2)
- “Man, look at all this oil” says scientist on Florida beach… “Something we will be dealing with for years” — “This is still loaded with PAH’s” (VIDEO) (8)
- “Radioactive” contaminants can enter drinking water supply as a “result of oil and gas production” (13)
- "Scary": Scientists find evidence of “bizarre sickness” in phytoplankton and bacterial communities (3)
- BP wouldn’t give oil sample to expert working as a representative of the government (4)
- USF researchers find layers “up to 5 times thicker” than in August — “Oil’s presence on the ocean floor didn’t diminish with time; it grew” (0)
- Alabama: Hundreds more dead black birds found (VIDEO) (4)
- Oil 'Spill' Commission forum: "People call me crying and dying" -- "They need medical attention" (2)
- “Yellow foam” hits several beaches in southern England — “Massive clean-up” of “oily material” underway (6)
- Has BP’s crude reached Britain? BBC reports “Thick black oil” found on beach near England’s southwestern-most point (17)
- The “devastation” continues says Oil ‘Spill’ Commissioner — “Toxic crude lies offshore” & “Oil sheen trails in the wake of fishing boats” (4)
- Paper: Blood tests “show a connection between reported illnesses and crude oil released from BP” — They are the “canary in the coal mine” (4)
- Oil ‘Spill’ Commission member says public health concerns are “clearly a dominant issue” in Gulf (3)
- 3-year-old boy who developed kidney stones since BP disaster has Ethlybenzene levels at 3.3 times the 95th percentile (1)
- Experts: What to do if you've been made ill by exposure to the oil disaster (2)
- "Tragic" test results from Mississippi beaches: "Approximately 500 ppm of dispersant" in dead jellyfish, based on comparative analysis of Corexit 9500... MORE (0)
- Center now training Asian fishermen for second jobs in case waters are “permanently closed” (10)
- “Caustic chemical burns”: Workers pressure wash heavily oiled boats with NO respirators… While using a "toxic" cleaning agent — Valdez Part 2? (PHOTO & VIDEO) (2)
- Navy Veteran: Text messages show workers were told to “cover up oil in many places rather than clean it up” (VIDEO) (0)
- More respiratory infections than ever… and it’s NOT flu-related says host of top-rated radio program — “There’s something else out there” (AUDIO) (1)
- Cleanup worker suffering from large boils, multiple skin infections (DISTURBING PHOTOS) (29)
- “My 11-year-old child has tested positive for the chemicals from the oil” (VIDEO) (5)
- “BP oil spill: Colombian farmers sue for negligence” — Poisoned water, crop failures, livestock die-off (6)
- Mayor: Don’t settle with BP’s Feinberg — “We don’t know what’s out there in the Gulf” (VIDEO) (3)
- Bacteria that eat oil “are known to mimic testosterone and estrogen” — “Exceedingly low concentrations” may “hamper endocrine functions” (7)
- Alabama’s Marine Resources director dies after staph infection — Played important part in state’s oil disaster response (3)
- It’s “as if I’m on another planet” says local at Mississippi beach (VIDEO) (4)
- “Field” of weathered oil found on Mississippi beach — BP cleanup chief says it’s “actually getting pretty close to clean” (3)
- TSA targets Project Gulf Impact at airport checkpoint — “Pre-selected for harassment and intimidation” (VIDEO) (1)
- BP cleanup worker, age 25, needs high-risk open heart surgery after being infected with bacterial endocarditist — “If he doesn’t have it, he will die” (2)
- Dispute: Shrimper’s nets covered in liquid oil — Official says no, it’s gooey unweathered tar (VIDEO) (4)
- “Silent Dread”: Florida fisherman deal with anxiety of knowing fish populations collapsed after Exxon Valdez disaster — “This oil spill isn’t over” (3)
- More BP problems: ‘Leak’ shuts down trans-Alaska oil pipeline — “Looking for secondary releases” (1)
- Liquid crude oozing from just below the surface — Storm will take oil “far inland” says official (VIDEO) (2)
- “Junk Science”: Disappearing methane researchers are “manipulating data to gain media attention” says top attorney (2)
- “Flocks of white pelicans, some still coated in oil” (VIDEO) (1)
- Protective boom “gobbled up by the oil” — 100 foot wide areas of heavily saturated shoreline (1)
- NSFW: Official tells Coast Guard to "Kiss my ass" -- "This Is Bullsh!t" (VIDEO) (13)
- “This is the biggest cover-up in the history of America” says official — It’s like Coast Guard and NOAA are “in bed with BP” (21)
- Marshes remain oiled and “rapidly eroding” — Coast Guard still has no details and no plan (PHOTOS) (3)
- Submerged oil surfaces in Florida (VIDEO) (0)
- Mississippi: Billions of baby clam and oyster shells, dead jellyfish & the “smell of acid” — Rainbow sheen covering beach (VIDEOS) (1)
- “Swarms of dead birds have been found in Tennessee” (2)
- USDA reports dead crows found in Indianapolis (5)
- West Texas: “Large group of dead grackles” scattered over blocks — “I hadn’t seen that many dead birds in an isolated area” says animal control officer (VIDEO) (1)
- East Texas: “Hundreds of dead birds” line roadway (3)
- Arkansas: Eagle count way down — Birds may be eating from massive fish kill (2)
- Experts doubt fireworks or lightning killed Arkansas birds — Likely “some kind of poison” (2)
- Why top scientists are NOT convinced by new report claiming methane has "vanished" from Gulf (8)
- "Giant" South Carolina Fish Kill: "A seemingly never ending line of dead fish" along beach (6)
- Britain: “Mysterious deposits of black sand” and thousands of dead crabs wash ashore (6)
- BP cleanup foreman gets test results: “I have the chemicals of the oil and dispersants in my blood” (1)
- Map shows birds migrate from BP disaster up through Arkansas and Kentucky, near areas where dead birds are dropping from sky (PHOTO) (11)
- Like a “Ghost Town”: Fishermen say “their industry has come to a standstill” — “A catastrophe” (VIDEO) (3)
- Physician says it’s “criminal” for government to tell people to eat contaminated seafood and that it’s alright to swim in contaminated water (4)
- Whooping cranes found dead near Florida/Alabama border — “Unusual and suspicious” (1)
- “Overwhelming”: Thousands of dead fish found in Florida (VIDEO) (7)
- Young woman “developed cancer within weeks” after going to Gulf beach — Doctor believes “this was due to direct exposure to chemicals in the dispersants and VOCs” (0)
- Paper: “Oil and the chemicals used to break it up are still widely dispersed throughout the Gulf of Mexico” (3)
- “Oil is rolling in on the beaches” of Grand Isle; Sand is “turning it black” — “I’ve never seen it looking like this” (3)
- Hundreds of dead pelicans wash up on North Carolina beach (16)
- 2 million dead fish in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay (1)
- TV: Is beach cleanup “all for nothing”? — Oil is still in the water (VIDEO) (0)
- Sharks with solid “hairballs” of migratory bird feathers found off Alabama coast (2)
- Governor says national media “not interested” in Gulf oil disaster (5)
- AND AGAIN: Several hundred birds drop from sky in Kentucky — “Experts are at a loss” (VIDEO) (10)
- AGAIN: Birds "rain" from sky 100 miles from New Orleans -- Grackles, starlings, cowbirds, and blackbirds (16)
- Disaster in the Florida Keys: Lobster fisherman says “I’ve never seen anything like this” — “Everything has changed” (4)
- Oil disaster may be to blame for recent manatee deaths in Gulf says expert (3)
- “Very concerned”: “Unusually high number of manatee deaths this year” says Florida agency (0)
- MSNBC: "Red gunk" and foam washing up in Mississippi -- "This stuff clings together… like snot" (2)
- “The reality is we still have hundreds of miles of oiled shoreline today” says top Louisiana official — “The oil is absolutely still there” (2)
- Gulf residents believe dispersant still being sprayed: “You can sit on the beach at night and watch C-130s going back and forth” (33)
- New "leak" on platform in Gulf -- "Mile-long sheen" (5)
- Kindra: Every single one of cleanup workers in area have brown spots all over their arms (VIDEO) (3)
- "It looked like the blood vessels underneath the skin’s surface were literally breaking and the blood was slowly coming to the surface" (VIDEO) (0)
- “Tarballs outnumber seashells” on Alabama beach, similar to areas in Pensacola Bay — Chunks of oil “rolling along the bottom” (VIDEO) (3)
- Dropping from the sky: 5,000 dead birds found in Arkansas town; HazMat onscene — Nearby massive fish kill (VIDEOS) (23)
- 20-mile fish kill: 100,000 dead fish in Arkansas River; Too big to clean up -- North of Lousiana (VIDEO) (4)
- Kindra Arnesen: “There’s pods of dead dolphins everywhere” — Dead animal count is “another lie” (VIDEO) (0)
- Unimaginable? Sampling of shrimp, menhaden “could forewarn of uglier days ahead, possibly on a scale we can’t imagine” (1)
- “Who knows what these chemicals have done to all of these children’s reproductive organs” (VIDEO) (2)
- Doomed: “They destroyed our lives” says business owner — “I’m done. It’s just too much. I’m about ready for counseling” (11)
- AP: “So much oil under the sand… may be washing up for months, if not years” — BP worker: “You definitely smell it. It hits you in the face” (19)
- “BP is going to come back from this” says member of Obama’s commission investigating oil disaster (23)
- Florida Paper: “Oil Spill Devastates Economy” (1)
- Aliphatic hydrocarbons in Gulf seafood test at DOUBLE the risk level set by U.S.-funded working group — “Associated with liver damage” (0)
- Oil “melt” next summer? Warm water allows submerged oil to surface says environmental expert (0)
- Congressman “praises ‘tremendous’ BP spill” — Oil was “blossoming out” (6)
- MSNBC: "Is dispersant still being sprayed in the gulf?" -- "Based on their data, it does appear that dispersant is present" says professor (3)
- 52%: Church feeds 1,200 people in coastal Alabama town with population of only 2,300 — “They’ve all been directly affected by the Gulf oil spill” (7)
- "Unprecedented": Coldest December ever recorded in Scotland; Record snow fall in London -- Weather causes BP prices to rise (45)
- “Like a brown poisonous tide”: Oily sheen bubbling up in marsh grass — Not much different than in August (27)
- Fracked up: Nungesser pushing to drill for “natural” gas in Plaquemines — A deal with the “devil’s little brother”? (12)
- Stephen Baldwin suing Kevin Costner for millions over BP 'trick' (10)
- Editorial board warns readers to “ignore” Feds’ latest report — “Florida should listen to the outsiders” (2)
- To feed their children Gulf residents "have sold their furniture, their TVs"; "Picking up aluminum cans" (3)
- Researchers who caught mullets filled with oil “did not catch non-oiled fish” (2)
- Times Picayune: "Many" Gulf residents are "experiencing serious physical" problems (7)
- “Mats of algae” collecting on beaches throughout Gulf with “aroma of hydrocarbons and a coppery oily smear to the touch” (PHOTOS) (2)
- Report from Long Beach, MS: "No sign of life in the water" -- No bait fish, no shrimp, no hermit crabs (VIDEO) (12)
- Paper: Current situation with Gulf seafood safety is "intolerable" (0)
- Acres of 1" thick black mats cover beach at Dauphin Island (PHOTOS) (6)
- BP/Feds did not look for oil in water more than 10 feet deep… due to “restriction” (3)
- Scientists find “lots of oil and dead animals on the sea floor at a spot very close to where the government said it barely found any oil” (3)
- “I have nowhere left to turn”: BP refuses claim of “gravely ill” cleanup worker — “Can never recover money for medical bills and other expenses” (0)
- Feds’ Report: Sediment testing “found a chemical contained in dispersant, but its environmental impact is unknown” (6)
- New Orleans toxicologist warns about seafood, urges family members not to eat it — Only 8 ounces of fish tested to open 10,000 square miles (0)
- “Dangerously High Levels”: Snapper caught near Pensacola, FL “contaminated with nearly 3,000 PPM of total petroleum hydrocarbons” (4)
- Rainbow foam washing up in Alabama — “Thick, brown sludge” along top of sand (VIDEO) (1)
- Documents released by WikiLeaks reveal “striking resemblances between BP’s Gulf of Mexico disaster and a little-reported giant gas leak” in 2008 (22)
- Same company that recertified Deepwater Horizon safety program “while the rig was still burning in the Gulf” is “conducting the examination” into failed BOP (1)
- Professor “recorded sub-surface oil 60 miles thick” near Desoto Canyon off the Florida coast (10)
- Fingerprint Match: BP’s oil found up to 7,500 FEET DEEP in Gulf — Feds now admit finding oil in sediment that matches BP’s (1)
- Red crabs “not defending their turf” — “We don’t know where the crabs went, or why” says expert (1)
- “Every water sample taken from the Gulf that was shown to contain oil on the radar looked like CLEAR water” (0)
- Chemist finds “increasing levels” of cancer-causing oil pollutants “that have built up in the tissues of fish, shrimp and crabs as they feed on other oiled marine life” (0)
- "Very, very repressed” photosynthesis in marine bacteria says USF researcher (0)
- Seagull's guts are 23,302 ppm petroleum hydrocarbons -- "Oil contamination is moving up the food chain" (4)
- “Giant” 1/8 MILE glob of oil washes up in Orange Beach — “Overwhelming smell” (VIDEO) (13)
- “Outbreak”: Fungus hits Alabama marshes — Something has “gone haywire” (16)
- 46 ppm of toxic parts of crude oil found in jellyfish eaten by bottlenose dolphins (33)
- “We keep seeing this foam coming in just about everyday” — “They keep spraying” dispersant says Emergency Operations Center worker (9)
- Independent tests show seafood “samples exceeded more than twice the ‘tolerable daily intake’ based on the FDA’s average rates of consumption” (4)
- Not even a bloodhound’s nose could detect harmful hydrocarbons says toxicologist — NOAA and FDA “NOT using certified lab methods” (0)
- Feds now ignoring workers who report being sprayed by Corexit (VIDEOS) (0)
- Top seafood proccesor: “We haven’t bought shrimp in three days” — Worried about “permanent impacts” (3)
- Before DOSS testing for Corexit dispersant “government scientists devein and shell shrimp” (4)
- Attorneys: "There remains a significant amount floating in the water and along the coastline from Texas to Florida" -- "Businesses should wait before settling" (4)
- Taxi refuses to pick up news reporter because of BP -- "It was clear who was in the driver’s seat" (9)
- “Disfigurement” and “substantial physical injury” after COREXIT inhaled and touched says seaman (10)
- Gulf researcher: "Oil appears to be everywhere" on seafloor, a massive "kill zone" where "it looks like everything's dead" -- Degrading "very slowly" (VIDEO) (11)
- “The area you cleaned yesterday overnight becomes soiled again” — Amount of workers to DOUBLE says coordinator (8)
- “Great Concern” about food web: “External and internal deformities, cancer and other diseases, genetic defects” (3)
- Feds said workers could only dig 3 INCHES looking for oil, can now go 6 inches (2)
- Top British Newspaper: BP's oil in Gulf has "switched off the North Atlantic Current, which keeps Europe from freezing" (43)
- WARNING: Dispersant/Surfactant eats through water filters & fish gills — Via Gasland (VIDEO) (28)
- BP Oil Disaster "more popular" than World Cup, American Idol, Justin Bieber (CHART) (5)
- Cigar-like burn develops on child's face after splashed with water from Gulf (VIDEO) (16)
- "Oil rig explodes" in Gulf (11)
- Fisherman "very depressed and suicidal" but changed mind in order to fight -- "It's time for everybody else to fight" too (VIDEO) (2)
- No menstrual period for 4 months when doused with Gulf water -- "Like being covered in stinging jellyfish" (0)
- MORE TROUBLE: Gulf smells like tap water -- No salt or fish smell say shrimpers from different states (VIDEO) (6)
- At least two suicides linked to BP disaster -- "If it wasn't for my children, I probably would have already committed suicide" says shrimper (AUDIO) (4)
- BP’s weathered oil “is MORE toxic” than that of fresh crude warns toxicologist — Chrysene and benzo[b]fluoranthene predominate (VIDEO) (11)
- Shrimper/War Veteran contemplates losing kids after losing everything else -- Wife says "He's taking this harder than he took Iraq, and he was at death's door" (AUDIO) (8)
- Toxicologist: “Tests of Gulf shrimp have shown unsafe levels… which can cause liver or kidney damage in a MATTER OF WEEKS” (5)
- Louisiana has more oiled shoreline now than in July -- "Baby crabs and adult shrimp covered by crude, slicks on the surface" -- (PHOTOS) (3)
- Hospice gets funding to counsel Gulf residents using "bereavement specialist" -- Mission is to provide help "during times of life-limiting illnesses" (23)
- Gulf Researcher: "See all the dark spots and LESION looking things? That's not normal" for crabs -- "There's oil on the bottom" (PHOTOS & AUDIO) (6)
- “Problem is continuing to exacerbate” — 50% of all people survey on Alabama coast “invited to begin treatment” (1)
- Oil toxins on beach seen with UV lighting — more toxic and persistent components of crude appear yellow or orange (PHOTOS) (10)
- 176 empty containers of 'discontinued' COREXIT 9527A found... With ship date of August 10 (PHOTOS) (7)
- Shrimp tested by toxicologist “would be in violation and wouldn’t be on the market” if Feds used standards set for previous oil spills (0)
- "Genetically engineered" strain of E. coli bacteria used to detect oil (4)
- Palin's former oil advisor: Gulf catastrophe "unprecedented" -- "True toll" yet to be revealed (8)
- BP trying to "starve" Gulf residents so they accept settlement offers without knowing what will happen in 3-4 years (VIDEO) (3)
- Boat engine causes oil to rise from seafloor -- "Just dead, everything's dead" (VIDEO) (4)
- Retired nurse: Believe BP, the oil is gone... How stupid do they think we are? (VIDEO) (14)
- "There are no crabs" -- "Parasites inside of their lungs eating them alive" (VIDEO) (6)
- Gulf resident's November blood test shows ethylbenzene levels higher than cleanup workers tested in August (13)
- Governor says "extortion"; State issues "consumer alert" warning that Feinberg "works for BP" (2)
- "When you look at the underlying evidence, it simply isn't there" says retired NOAA chemist about Feds' new oil estimates (3)
- Memo: "EPA agrees that the ultimate message to the public will likely be that the oil was successfully dispersed with chemical dispersants" (8)
- UF scientist says "clear evidence that much of the oil is still below the surface in subsurface plumes" (0)
- Two fish “FILLED with oil” caught by member of whale research crew while in Gulf (6)
- “A continuum of polluted water may still exist” from wellhead to shoreline — “Shrimp, crab, oysters and menhaden appear to have been considerably harmed by the spill” (1)
- Feds reclose section of Gulf after shrimper catches tar balls (0)
- BP oil spill incident commander dies in plane crash (14)
- Recent tests "using human cell lines, show that dispersants cause cell death and DNA damage" says university director (17)
- "The oil is still there": Up to "79 percent of it sank to the ocean floor, where it remains" says FSU professor (13)
- More shrimpers report "body rashes, diarrhea and other ailments" (3)
- “Our home has been poisoned”: “Shrimp with missing shells and some suffering from black gill disease” says seafood worker (3)
- "Shrimp peelings are inexplicably washing up on Grand Isle’s shores" (4)
- “Reefs of oil” on the ocean bottom near the coast says former cleanup worker (1)
- Project Gulf Impact: "Scientists Paid To Cover Up Toxic Dispersant" (VIDEO) (3)
- "If only a handful of whales can't reproduce because of broken DNA, the whole population will be doomed" says researcher (0)
- Orlando TV station finds "troubling problems with gulf seafood" -- Scientist who did testing "would not eat it based on the results" (LAB RESULTS) (4)
- NSF-funded workgroup: "Storms are likely to resurrect the oil that is currently hidden from sight" -- "Much oil persists" nearshore (4)
- Dispersant applied “daily” on Apalachicola Bay using “black or camouflage” helicopters says Seafood Association president (8)
- Hundreds more vultures found floating in South Florida -- Broad-winged hawk also rescued (PHOTOS) (13)
- Local seafood workers insist Apalachicola Bay is “badly contaminated with oil” — Private testing shows product was “tainted” (11)
- Women around Gulf with internal bleeding & mysterious bruises on torso (VIDEO & PHOTO) (21)
- “Still in shock”: Alabama shrimpers find catch "coated in oil" at area open for fishing — Boat to be decontaminated (VIDEO) (4)
- More children from Gulf with health problems — “Big, gaping wounds all over feet and inside of elbows” (VIDEO) (4)
- Breakdown: Child hospitalized 3 times after trip to Alabama beach -- Massive kidney infections and kidney stones, now lung infections (VIDEO) (4)
- Surprise? Congressmen see information that shows Gulf residents are "very sick" and "dying" (VIDEOS) (7)
- Report: Woman cooking shrimp finds "sludge" on bottom of pan -- "We feel like we are being lied to on so many levels" (2)
- Shrimper of 30+ years hospitalized, told by his doctors to "get out of there" (3)
- Still, no one is doing anything about health issues -- Corexit neurotoxins "eat up the brain" and "it takes out your liver, kidneys and lungs" (7)
- Major events today in Grand Isle, Seattle, and two in New Orleans (0)
- Near Seattle? TODAY at 3 pm: Project Gulf Impact "holding an interactive public forum and exhibit at Seattle U." (0)
- LSU professor: "I think that Dr. Overton comes across as being an industry shill" (1)
- Bunch of buddies of mine breaking out with "staph" -- "It's something out of the water" say doctors (VIDEO) (9)
- News channel asks BP “if there’s any kind of gag order in place for workers” (VIDEO) (0)
- Shrimper: They’re killing everybody real slow — No bycatch; Big yellowfin tuna swimming nearshore (VIDEO) (5)
- BP spokesman explains new oil sightings: “As current and weather conditions change, we’ll see more coming up” (VIDEO) (3)
- Dispersant? The slime is gone off the fish -- After 28 days my clothes still didn't smell like fish (VIDEO) (1)
- “Oil buried up to FIVE feet deep” on Florida beach reports local news (VIDEO) (3)
- Former BP worker: “I feel like I’m in the twilight zone” -- Clams “used to be white… Now they are all black” (17)
- While you were breathing: 99.8 ppm VOCs measured at Orange Beach, AL as well was capped-- "Amazing" says scientist (VIDEO) (13)
- Former oil field worker: “Could smell the Benzene coming up” into Mobile Bay — “Unbelievable headaches” and “a new rash… on my chest” (4)
- BP paid Feinberg "selecting who lives and who dies" (VIDEO) (10)
- "Bleeding from the ears" and now "bruising rash all around my stomach" -- "Looks like bleeding under the skin" (8)
- LSU professor: Dispersed oil damages reproduction and may result in a “tipping point beyond which recovery is uncertain" -- NOAA says gone within weeks (1)
- "Absurd": BP donated $23,000 to school system that hosted "oil spill lesson" -- Officials deny link (2)
- Be there Tuesday 6 pm at USF: "No politics, no cover-up, no speculation, just facts" about oil disaster -- But no talk of health effects? (4)
- Cleanup worker told to "stop finding new oil" because "it was getting overwhelming" (VIDEO) (4)
- CNN: Tar balls return to Gulf Coast -- Some are the size of hamburger patties (0)
- EPA says oil burns not cancer-causing, similar to smoke from woodstoves — Authors of EPA study express “concerns” about adequacy of sampling (15)
- Paper: "In the clear Florida water, the rust-colored masses can be seen from boats or while snorkeling" (1)
- Mississippi Mystery: If officials find submerged oil now, it counts as oil... Unlike last time (VIDEO) (0)
- Error? Sarasota paper fails to mention lab tests have already matched oil on Sarasota-area beach to BP -- Misprints name of 'Testing the Water' initiative (1)
- Report: "Tar balls and black oily plumes" wash up in Apalachicola Bay, FL -- 70 miles EAST of Panama City (VIDEO) (7)
- *DEADLINE IS TODAY* Sign Riki Ott's letter to Congress -- Simple Instructions (7)
- Vultures still "still showing up" floating in Biscayne Bay -- Man "picked up 10 birds himself" (5)
- All 40 scientists agree at meeting: "Fish in the Gulf of Mexico will continue to get sick, die or fail to reproduce as a result" of oil -- What about the people? (0)
- Dispersant use contaminates volume of water with up to 1,000 more PAHs -- What's worse? These toxic parts of oil remain longest (1)
- Toxicologist: “We tested a good number of seafood samples and in 100 percent we found petroleum” — Gov’t tests “little more than a farce” (2)
- “I don’t recommend eating Gulf seafood, not with the risk of liver and kidney damage” says toxicologist — “They’re sniffing for something they can’t detect” (0)
- Oil under sand still just "as toxic as the fresh oil": Sample "had to be diluted 20 TIMES to get a reading" -- Florida agency says SAME sample NOT toxic (2)
- FL Fisherman: "Like having a chemical dump site and not telling anyone" -- "Oh no, I'm cleaning flounders right now that I just caught within eyesight of there" (1)
- *Update* Miami wildlife officer: "Birds sporadically dispersed, floating southward, about a mile slick of them" -- CBS reports 10 dead (VIDEOS & PHOTO) (12)
- Miami-area: Many large birds reported “floating in Biscayne Bay covered in oil” — “Biologists mind-boggled” (VIDEO) (10)
- “Human race survives methane plume, for now” — May take 400 years to be clear on how methane affected Gulf says professor (4)
- Paper: Swan expert who “ran into legal trouble over an expired prescription license has closed his practice" -- Was investigating unexplained bird deaths near Sarasota (8)
- “Could we all be at risk?” asks local Florida news station — Medical doctor has patients testing in 95th percentile for oil spill-associated chemicals (VIDEOS) (13)
- What happened to world-renowned swan expert investigating bird deaths around Sarasota? "Dr. Gardner has retired, and all files have been sent to other vets" (9)
- Scientists worry about "a cascade of events that will lead to the collapse of entire Gulf species" -- May have pushed a variety of sharks "to their tipping point" (0)
- "Data that's been gathered about the spill's impact has yet to be made public" -- USF Dean: Feds will not share test results with researchers who collected samples (1)
- Doctor: "Dead people don’t talk, dead people don’t sue, dead people don’t tell the truth, and dead people don’t bother BP" (6)
- Official: “We will NEVER get all of the oil off the beach, that’s just something we have to come to grips with” (VIDEO) (3)
- Tears after heartbreaking discovery near FL border: “Massive amounts of submerged and sub-surface oil” pushed on to beaches — “Neverending” (VIDEO) (8)
- Multiple boats of fishermen sickened on November 1 -- One still hospitalized after "bleeding in his esophagus" (2)
- Dallas surgeon “has treated many people from the Gulf that have been made sick by BP’s toxic chemicals” (1)
- EPA administrator's 'task force' not dealing with health issues, "only restoring the coast itself" (VIDEO) (2)
- *CONFIRMED* Chemist: That’s BP oil on Southwest Florida beach — “Should put to rest any doubt” over origin of 173 ppm oil found in sand near Sarasota (22)
- Stay tuned for breaking news (0)
- Starfish are “bleached white” — Attached to “graveyard” of coral which “suggests that they have nowhere else to go” (1)
- Orange Beach: "Billions of tar balls" (VIDEO) (1)
- “I’m just trying to survive”: Alabama woman’s face and neck swollen "three times normal size" after trip to beach in late September (PHOTOS & VIDEO) (32)
- “We’ve been through the Great Depression and all that stuff, but nothing like this” says America’s oldest oyster processor and distributor (2)
- After Valdez, fish came back in full force — Then “like clockwork” the herring population collapsed (5)
- Scientists: Oil is "poisoning plankton" -- "Ultimate ecological response could be catastrophic" (5)
- "The small shrimp seem to have disappeared" says shrimper (1)
- "Dramatic": The damage "slapped you in the face" says biologist (3)
- Fish numbers triple in sample area? Scientists have "concerns that some losses might not become visible for a year or more" (4)
- Report: "Marine-Life Devastation Near BP Oil Spill Indicates Much Worse Long-Term Damage Than Feds Had Admitted" (1)
- “Something very toxic” had “tissue falling off the skeleton” (7)
- Why does federal lab remove vein from Gulf shrimp BEFORE testing it? — 193 ppm oil and/or grease found in veins of fresh gulf shrimp (VIDEO) (13)
- Research lab sampling for invisble oil -- Concern over organisms dying & not reproducing correctly (VIDEO) (3)
- Fed-sponsored research team now analyzing if Corexit caused "molecular evidence of genetic damage" -- i.e. Mutations (3)
- Corexit: The Untraceable Killer? (4)
- Mag: "The story of the damage caused by the oil is not over -- It is just beginning" (7)
- "A huge number of people on the coast were exposed to this aerosol" of oil and Corexit says chemist (10)
- "I think that we have a smoking gun" says chief scientist on Gulf expedition -- "Almost certainly dying from exposure to toxins" (1)
- Microbiologist: "They've been made ill but most are too frightened to speak out" -- "People that are sick are going to be sick for the rest of their lives" (0)
- Excerpt from article at heart of NOAA controversy: "Concerns include the potential for dispersants to mutate into new chemical forms" ...More (0)
- NOAA's lead public affairs officer "demanded" website "withdraw its story" on Gulf (12)
- “Something we have not seen before”: “Slime snot” found on seafloor of Gulf — “It smells like oil… Flocculent, gooey, whatever-it-is” (1)
- Deadly infection hits BP/Deepwater Horizon safety manager — BP trying to make sure no “bug or something” goes through workforce (VIDEO) (12)
- Expert on ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria: At least six different types of vibrios found at Deepwater Horizon site (VIDEO) (1)
- Mississippi officials lift advisories: Tar balls not a health risk — but you’re advised to avoid making contact (VIDEO) (1)
- NOAA: 90% of corals have “dead and dying parts” at site near wellhead — Covered in “brown substance” (2)
- Ryan Reynolds: Propaganda? "People aren't being told the truth" -- After witnessing Gulf they "would be calling for heads" (VIDEO) (6)
- “Every person I was dealing with was sick” says outreach volunteer in Grand Isle — “People that are living there, heaven help them” (8)
- Darth Vader-like creature "is replacing red crabs in the habitat we have sampled" (VIDEO & PHOTO) (6)
- Commercial fisherman: Doctor told me “I am Corexit-drunk” — “Everybody in Dauphin Island is sick from this stuff” (4)
- Shrimper witnesses visible oil in shrimp and crabs (VIDEO) (5)
- EPA employee: FDA, NOAA revealed "they are doing a cover up" when testing for Corexit (2)
- Kindra: "My body felt like it was attacking itself" on morning of November 2... "There's people sick everywhere"; Vicki says "last week I felt like I was dying" (VIDEO) (10)
- In case you missed it: 22 y/o Florida lifeguard “was rained on and started having rectal bleeding” — “Significant amount” of blood lost (5)
- ROV films bubbles leaking from MC 252 #1 wellhead (VIDEO) (2)
- BP worker with “brown spots all over his arms” — “Everybody’s getting that out there” (VIDEO) (0)
- "Recurring sores" after seeing plane dump liquid -- Alabama physician links condition to "high levels of volatile solvents in his blood" (PHOTO) (2)
- "Dispersants were highly toxic and had left 8 people dead" when eating fish after '09 oil disaster says foundation director -- Corexit 9500A and 9527A used (3)
- "There are things in place to do long-term tracking, but it HAS NOT STARTED" yet for BP cleanup workers, says health official (1)
- “I personally cannot tell the difference between sweet taste and salty taste” says cleanup worker (VIDEO) (0)
- Florida DEP finds Corexit ingredient in 50 PERCENT of water samples taken AFTER well 'capped' -- NO tests were positive for dispersant before August 16 (2)
- NYT: “Water looked like chocolate syrup in some parts and Coca-Cola in others” and “Smelled like an auto-body shop” says eyewitness — Ed Overton explains “It is not oil” (0)
- ANOTHER: Florida physician refers patient to toxicologist, who concluded “symptoms are due to the elevated, abnormal levels of chemicals present in my system from the Gulf oil spill” (1)
- ALERT: Florida medical doctor begins "treating patients in relation to high levels of volatile solvents in the blood stream" -- "Tremendous implications" (8)
- Desperation: "Local economy will completely collapse" without help soon -- "Going to be true devastation" (VIDEO) (4)
- Head of cleanup on MS island: "Finding more and more and more oil" -- "And this is like the fifth time we have come through here" (VIDEO) (5)
- Crab containing 8,815 ppm of hydrocarbons had NO smell or sight of oil — “We were astonished there were levels like that” (5)
- Research team “uncovered a PAH bonanza” — And just 190 parts per BILLION of PAHs is “considered pretty toxic” says professor at NASA installation (1)
- BP cleanup worker: "They was spraying them chemicals on us at night, while we was sleeping" (VIDEO) (8)
- University scientist’s seafood sample results were "hundreds of times higher than the levels the government tests found" (2)
- "As deep as you could go": No matter how far they dig at beach, the oil is already there -- BP dissolved the oil in the water and it seeped into sand (6)
- 78 percent concerned over health effects of dispersant -- "It's logical" says professor, Corexit is 11 times more toxic than the oil (Mobile, AL) (2)
- BP cleanup worker: Oil “really hasn’t even been touched” — It’s “rolling in as we speak” (VIDEO) (5)
- TV report on shrimp with nearly 200 ppm oil in digestive system (VIDEO) (0)
- 60 percent have “no trust” for BP’s information or the Feds’ response (Mobile, AL Survey) (2)
- EPA “BP Spill” testing across Gulf finds highest amount of heavy metal in Florida bays — Raises “Level of Concern” (Lab Results) (17)
- LSU professor: Crude oil in seafood NOT detectable by 'smell test' -- "We are being lied to" (0)
- Reconnaissance flight over Gulf finds wetlands surrounded by oil (PHOTOS) (2)
- Single mother of two young children on third job around Gulf since blowout -- "Everything's going bankrupt" ...more (VIDEO) (7)
- Top attorney calls for "immediate" funding of coastal health clinics -- "Disturbing findings cry out for a more sustained public-health response" (0)
- 'Project Deep Spill': Feds had deep water 'blowout' 10 years ago — Found rising oil 'strips' out some of most toxic compounds which remain in water column (PHOTOS & VIDEO) (8)
- More Tears: "My lungs are crippled -- They found chemicals in my blood stream" (VIDEO) (7)
- 193 ppm of oil found inside shrimp purchased on Oct. 22 (Lab Results) (3)
- Photo surfaces of black substance inside large fish caught by Florida man in late September (12)
- Gulf family says can’t buy groceries — On verge of eating pet? “When you’re eating the kid’s pet, that’s pretty bad” (VIDEO) (40)
- Oct. 30: “World renowned” scientist says currents "will" transport oil throughout Gulf — Florida’s east & west coasts under threat (VIDEO) (9)
- Be there in 1 HOUR: Rally starts @ 1 PM in Baton Rouge -- Meet on the steps of the state capitol (1)
- Feds' press release says NOAA, FDA now testing for dispersant: Corexit ingredient DOSS found in 13 samples -- Up to 500 ppm allowed in shrimp, crabs, oysters (31)
- Fish organs are NOT the same color as they used to be, says BP/P2S worker -- "You cut them open and they're not the same" (VIDEO) (9)
- Surfers ill from trip in mid-September — Large swell brings cocktail of “oil and dispersant to the surface” (9)
- Scientists report “NEW plume of oil” with “millions of specks of reddish-brown oil in it” (4)
- WATER sample from FLORIDA beach with 30.6 ppm of Corexit 9500A dispersant ingredient (3)
- Getting worse: Toddler with "severe upper respiratory, sinus, and viral infections" -- Experts believe linked to oil disaster (42)
- Dean Blanchard experiencing symptoms: "Coughing, sore throat, burning eyes, headaches, just like everyone around here feels" -- "They are using us like lab rats" (4)
- Oil + Corexit could linger for 300 YEARS says state official (8)
- Reporter: Growing number of people with health problems along Gulf -- "It's chemical poisoning" (VIDEO) (13)
- Today's Front Page: "Off the Charts" "Sky-High" "Extreme Toxicity" "Very Alarming" "Frightening" -- Local Florida official finds the oil (14)
- Chemist: Chemicals from dispersed oil “coming down as rain” (18)
- "I’m scared of what I'm finding" says chemist -- Corexit combines with oil to generate new compounds, many with "double bonds" (14)
- Fisherman: "Still feeling terrible... I'm about to go to the doctor" -- "Diarrhea has been real bad... day before yesterday, I was coughing up white foam with brown spots" (3)
- “Constant health issues” after repeatedly going to beach — “Bloody, mucus-filled diarrhea” for 4 days with “blood running out of my ear” (15)
- Chemist: Women more at risk — “Bleeding from their vagina and anus. Small kids are bleeding from their ears. This stuff is busting red blood cells” (23)
- "They are dying" says registered nurse working in Florida -- I'm seeing "people who have been chemically poisoned" (29)
- Valdez Toxicologist: "People are dropping dead now" -- "I don’t think we’ll have to wait years to see the effects like we did in Alaska" (8)
- Sand Shark 'cleans' Florida beaches -- Eyewitness finds “big black chunks” after machine leaves (VIDEO) (9)
- State officials admit: "Worried about FISHERY COLLAPSES, based on the collapse of the herring fishery" after the Exxon Valdez (1)
- Submerged oil surfaces: Fishermen say 10 MILE patch of brown foam "5 INCHES THICK with red swirls of oil" (6)
- "They are literally shrimping in oil" says eyewitness -- "It's criminal" that officials keep waters open (7)
- ALL 8 blood samples collected in Florida and Alabama find "4 TIMES the 95th Percentile" of m,p-Xylene (1)
- Still Rising: “Increase in people seeking mental health care in recent weeks” and “the money has already run out in south Lafourche and Grand Isle” (0)
- Catfish in lagoon “suffering burns across their heads and bodies” (VIDEO) (2)
- Researchers discover oil plume drifting 300 miles from Macondo well (VIDEO) (3)
- "May spark a whole new debate": Scientist "astonished" that he found so much crude -- Questions whether NOAA "dramatically understated" amount of oil in Gulf (VIDEO) (12)
- Tears: “You're gonna realize it later I guess, it’s gonna be a big shock to everyone… it’s gone, it’s done” (VIDEO) (11)
- Sickened by Algae? “All of us had sinus problems for hours after” — “It smelled like the oil you drain from your car” (0)
- “It’s Raining Bacteria”: Rain can spread flesh-eating microbes via “bio-aerosols” — “Also led to skin allergies and rashes” (15)
- Cleanup worker describes being sprayed: Throwing up foamy brown liquid... probably blood -- Like Nitromethane (VIDEO) (4)
- BP (British Parliament) report says Corexit 9500A “among the MOST CYTOTOXIC” dispersants studied -- "Major concerns by lead scientists" (9)
- “Coast Guard and law enforcement became the BP MILITIA” at times — “Tactics continue to be commonplace” (3)
- EXPLICIT: “Total catastrophe” — Katrina just a thunderstorm compared to BP’s oil (VIDEO) (1)
- “We have fishing boats and cleaning crews working almost side by side” (VIDEO) (3)
- 46% of BP Oil Spill wildlife cleanup workers reported RASHES, itchy skin, or red skin -- 35% with headaches (12)
- COREXIT appears to STILL be inside blue crab larvae says Tulane researchers in Gulf (0)
- Engineer confirms: "Toxic Corexit 9500A in MS Sound" after well capped (1)
- Senior Scientist: Still NO testing for heavy metals OR dispersant (VIDEO) (5)
- Researchers find "VAST VOLUMES" of oil on seafloor -- Includes "Thick Raw Crude" (8)
- “Speechless”: Oil sheen now “a lot worse” — “All these spots are just completely loaded” on MS beach (VIDEO) (3)
- Breaking: Scientists find “long plumes” of oxygen-depleted water “emanating” from BP’s Macondo well site (2)
- Alabama officials allow up to 50,000 ppm of VISIBLE OIL on some Dauphin Island beaches (0)
- Fishermen sprayed while sleeping in group of 20 boats tied together – Now under doctors’ care (VIDEO) (12)
- At Last: Why cleanup crews were NOT allowed to dig up the buried oil (5)
- Coast Guard says reports of massive stretches of oil appear to be ALGAE -- BP contractor: "Smelled like oil" and "had to be cleaned off with solvent" (3)
- Biggest coverup in the life of the world -- "Oil everywhere" (VIDEO) (8)
- Toxicologist now dealing with at least three autopsies in Gulf and "people who’s esophaguses are dissolving... these people have oil in their bodies" (VIDEO) (43)
- Healthy teenager, 16, hospitalized after swimming in Gulf on AUGUST 30 -- "Compromised lung" & "enlarged heart" (VIDEO) (0)
- Boat captain mentioned on NPR: "Internal bleeding -- Very, very sick" (VIDEO) (1)
- So many sick people in Gulf, it may force Obama from office (VIDEO) (8)
- Feds say Tropical Storm Richard to enter Gulf next week (TRACK MAP) (5)
- Toxicologist: 4 to 5 MILLION people on Gulf Coast exposed to dangerous levels of oil -- Going to have incredible health effects (VIDEO) (9)
- It’s Back: “Orange oil” for miles, “a signature image of the spill” returns — BP, Coast Guard not responding say captains (PHOTOS) (8)
- "We’re starving" -- "There are no fish in the waters... and any fish we would see, we would not eat" (VIDEO) (7)
- Reporter STEPS onto beach, is then forced by private security to be "decontaminated" — "Yes" it's about dispersants (6)
- Boat captain "bleeding from her vagina" -- "I'm bleeding from my anus, too... This thing is killing me" (18)
- Oct. 19: “A seemingly unrelenting tide of oil” surprises pilot with “countless" flights over Gulf in last 6 months (PHOTOS) (2)
- Report: Homeland Security agents want organizer to “shut up” — Told by BP to “back off” (VIDEO) (15)
- Captain: Mullet observed eating "dispersant as it gathered along the tide line" (2)
- Massive SHELF of tar exposed on beach in Pensacola (VIDEO) (4)
- Not just the coast to be affected: "It is going to keep going further and further in" (VIDEO) (1)
- ROV films THIRD leak today (VIDEO) (9)
- ANOTHER leak from wellhead (VIDEO) (3)
- Still days when you can smell oil, even in downtown Mobile — 30 miles north of the Gulf (1)
- Biggest concern is still "total fisheries collapse" says LSA President (VIDEO) (4)
- “Still so much oil and dispersant in the environment” says Gulf Restoration Network executive director (VIDEO) (3)
- "Dire" situation: Requests for help "continue to rise" says director of major charity (1)
- "ALL" oyster beds are "dead or dying" says top oysterman -- "Very pessimistic" (3)
- Local Official: "The oil is not evaporating -- it's not dissipating, it's sitting there" (1)
- 6 months later: Wellhead is still leaking (VIDEO) (3)
- Nungesser: "I've given up... You know, I can sit there and you can lie to me only so much" (6)
- Florida woman: Oil found in batch of oysters while eating (VIDEO) (8)
- Scientists: Acceptable levels of toxic PAH in the Gulf raised simply for the BP disaster (5)
- Jellyfish invading Florida’s west coast? “Never seen so many” says Sarasota fishermen… “Hanging off the line” while reeling in — “Associated with poor water quality” (5)
- BP admits oil buried “30 inches under ground” — “Trying” to bring it up (VIDEO) (1)
- Oceanographer on Loop Current: For “whatever reason” the current moved things from the northern Gulf to SARASOTA-area, — It “went in an odd direction” (4)
- "Corexit was being deployed on Dauphin Island as late as mid-September, and reports by locals continued though early October" (2)
- Florida health agencies "have experienced an increased demand in services following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill" (1)
- NOAA analyst thinks BP "has learned their lesson" (5)
- BP officials “scrambling” — Considering “a logo change” (VIDEO) (3)
- It was like a “COVERT OPERATION” trying to remove oil from beach says cleanup worker -- "Still years of work to be done" (VIDEO) (0)
- Feds say 27% of holes drilled in Florida park show oil buried 2 feet -- It's "not going to get cleaned up in 2010, and probably not in 2011" (2)
- Cleanup worker: They've got the American public so fooled -- Florida beaches "covered" in tar, with oil 6 feet under (VIDEO) (6)
- Feds: Only THREE composite samples of shrimp tested for latest reopening of 3,000 square miles (1)
- Cleanup worker confirms “They would not allow us to get anywhere near the water” (VIDEO) (1)
- Alabama: "The oil sticks in the crab" because underneath them is an "oil slick" (VIDEO) (3)
- Another cleanup worker talks "body parts" washing ashore (VIDEO) (2)
- Many large fish washing up dead on Louisiana shoreline (VIDEO) (5)
- Gulf Coast panel: "ALL of the speakers told of ONGOING RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS" -- Recontamination from "thick layer of oil on the bottom" (0)
- "GRAVEYARD" on seafloor: "Smelled like an auto repair shop" -- Only 6% of core samples showed signs of life, usually at 100% (1)
- Feds STILL sending samples to POLAND for analysis -- NOAA "expects data back from Poland near the END OF THE YEAR" (5)
- Rainwater test results show increase in toxins AFTER well capped… “Unbelievable”, “Astronomical” — Nitrobenzene & Heavy Metals (VIDEO) (5)
- Scientists: “Endless stream” of oil product coming ashore — Surface oil AND seepage from below the sand (6)
- Local official: We're finding oil on seafloor, but no one will clean it up -- Told just let mother nature handle it (VIDEO) (1)
- Report: 5-6 MILES of dispersed oil found south of Florida Panhandle -- Oil visible down to 15 feet deep (7)
- CONFIRMED: "The oysters didn't grow... they didn't spawn" -- "They DON'T HAVE ANY small oysters for next year or the year after" (VIDEO) (10)
- "We're going to see some more death going forward" says study funded by Feds, Chevron (3)
- "Potential ecosystem collapse caused by toxic dispersant use" -- "Horrific mistake" says LSA board member (8)
- Corexit found on “immediate shoreline this past week” in Alabama — “What we are dealing with is the public not knowing what is there” (4)
- Official denies USF researchers' findings: "No way" Corexit is on beach, blames natural seepage for oil -- Yet BP is sending crews to area (VIDEO) (11)
- Cancer specialist: Endocrine disruptors, mutagens in Gulf are “900 lb gorilla in the room” (VIDEO) (4)
- “Significant upswing in cancer” for Gulf expected — MAY EXTEND BEYOND REGION (1)
- Fisherman finds “lime-green” liquid floating in Apalachicola Bay, FL (VIDEO & PHOTO) (14)
- Cancer Expert: Short-term exposure to Hexane in oil causes nerves to “DIE back” — Neuropathy (VIDEO) (3)
- “The tissue mostly just DISSOLVED” when adding COREXIT 9500 says researcher — “With the oil alone there was no effect” (18)
- UM Researcher asks: If Corexit is 27 times safer than dish soap, why does safety manual recommend using oil and chemical-resistant synthetic rubber gloves to handle it? (1)
- "Contaminated": USF Researcher finds BP's oil covering entire beach & indicates dispersant in coastal lake -- Apologizes to public for listening to officials that this part of Florida was OK (6)
- National Geographic: Aerial photo of shoreline in Orange Beach, AL near Florida border (8)
- Tilting? Wellhead becomes covered in clouds — ROV turns away and cuts feed (VIDEO) (13)
- Oil cleanup security in parish overseen by company with ties to sheriff -- Used "taxpayer-financed vehicles and other equipment" (3)
- 1/3 of coastal Alabama population "would move to another community if they could" -- 71% say "permanent ecological damage to the Gulf" (12)
- I am “physically sick” from “oil and dispersant” says fisherman (6)
- BP's Chief Operating Officer says Gulf seafood IS tested for Corexit dispersant -- "Not a single sample has failed" (9)
- Oil buried beneath sand is OOZING UP with “changing temperatures” (AUDIO) (4)
- Magazine: "Oil-spill responders already are reporting chronic health problems" -- "Having major symptoms" (4)
- "Kitty litter" scoopers now used by BP contract workers to find buried oil (VIDEO) (6)
- “FANTASTIC”: Top BP official holds event to boost confidence in GULF seafood and eats crab claws -- From MARYLAND (VIDEO) (1)
- Floating sand washing ashore in Mississippi -- "Muratic acid-like smell" (VIDEO) (2)
- Official on massive fishkills: “Testing results show the fish have OIL IN THEIR GILLS AND LIVER” (6)
- Local officials admit finding Corexit ingredient in INLAND samples during “recent” testing (0)
- Official admits there’s STILL NO CHEMICAL TESTING being used to detect Corexit in seafood (VIDEO) (2)
- "They're still spraying dispersant" on "big pockets of oil" thinks chemist who tested inland waters (2)
- BP event promoting ‘safe’ seafood uses crab from MARYLAND and shrimp CAUGHT BEFORE DISASTER — Staff concerned over “longterm effects” of oil (VIDEO) (10)
- Local TV: “One of the greatest fears of the BP oil spill” happening? "Massive dead zone may be intensified by oil" (VIDEO) (0)
- Orange Beach: For MONTHS locals complain of illnesses suspected to be from oil/dispersant -- Official says "there may be something down there" (9)
- "Remarkable" says expert: "Knee-deep in the slime" on Destin, Florida beach -- "Hard to say" if from BP's oil (VIDEO & PHOTOS) (8)
- “Fresh oil coming ashore” and liquid oil under surface — “Very frightening” (VIDEO) (18)
- Navy suspended exercises over Gulf after consulting with doctor about how “bad” the situation is in the water (VIDEO) (23)
- MYSTERY: “Sheets form a thin layer on top of the sand and can easily be picked up in big chunks” — ‘Expert’ doesn’t know what it is (VIDEO & PHOTOS) (7)
- BP contract worker: If cleanup crews TOUCHED seawater while on beach, "clothes were THROWN AWAY" & "you're not here anymore" (VIDEO) (14)
- BP cleanup supervisor told neighbors that only HAZMAT crews would be allowed back into areas hit by storm (VIDEO) (7)
- Official calls Fed’s Oil Spill Commission “Damn Liars” — “That’s a dog-and-pony show” (VIDEO) (1)
- Cleanup worker: “Body parts started washing up”… hands, arms, leg — Told “don’t say anything” (VIDEO) (26)
- On Fox 8: Tests of rainwater showed “aluminum, magnesium, chloride, copper, nickel… things you shouldn’t find” (VIDEO) (2)
- News Report: Are you going to believe the government going forward? "No. The Government's a joke." (VIDEO) (1)
- Report: Feinberg's brother being paid by BP -- Firm's "Director of Special Projects" (2)
- 10-10-10: Project Gulf Impact, Kindra Arnesen & more to speak at Loyola University in New Orleans at 3pm — “The event many have been waiting for” (11)
- Man "collapsed and died" around hydrogen sulfide leak near New Orleans -- "Air tests did not detect anything that would be considered harmful to people" (VIDEO) (21)
- Medical Director: "Desperate need" for health services in lower Plaquemines -- 33% of children suffering "physical, mental or behavior problems because of the spill" (8)
- EPA says Corexit is "perfectly safe" -- Compares dispersant to Klondike Bar (VIDEO) (12)
- Oil Spill Commission report: Evidence indicates "ionic surfactant" in Corexit 9527 & 9500 "inhibits biodegradation"; "Dispersants and dispersed oil are typically more toxic than oil" (5)
- Why was BP considering abandoning Macondo well just days before blowout? (3)
- "Millions of peoples' health at risk" says toxicologist/marine biologist (10)
- White House official: "Nobody set out to pull the wool over the country’s eyes" (26)
- White House "GAGGED NOAA" from revealing actual flow rate of up to 100,000+ barrels per day (4)
- Kindra Arnesen shows her 'rash' -- "I think we've been poisoned to be perfectly honest" (VIDEO) (49)
- Kindra Arnesen: They're still spraying us (VIDEO) (7)
- 100 miles SOUTHEAST of blow-out: Oil appeared from "100 meters from the surface all the way down to 1,200 meters" (3)
- Methane concerns: Possible “fundamental shift” in Gulf’s microbial ecosystem and amount of bacteria — “We’re going to have to watch this” (9)
- Cleanup crew supervisor: In the last 3 weeks oil's washing up heavier than it was before -- From Pensacola, FL to Dauphin Island, AL (VIDEO) (9)
- Cleanup crew washed off child playing in “wet oil” — Used absorbent pads (VIDEO) (3)
- "You may have thought the fun ended when summer was over" on Alabama's coast -- Don't forget the much anticipated shrimp festival (VIDEO) (1)
- Once BP 'cleans' buried oil from top two feet of beaches, Florida county to begin process of covering up with new sand -- Still crude everywhere (VIDEO) (1)
- 611 ppm of petroleum hydrocarbons found in WATER at Mississippi harbor (9)
- Hours after blow-out BP was "INTERFERING" with effort to close BOP, contractor testifies (1)
- "Line of death" down to 65 feet... Gets worse closer to shore -- Biologist says dispersant (VIDEO) (1)
- Father: 3 year old passing kidney stones in Louisiana — Hospitals can’t figure out why he’s having the “massive” infection (VIDEO) (25)
- Washington Post Columnist: Look closely at BP's logo -- "It's a toxic, flesh-eating spore" (6)
- Toxic PAHs "have a shelf life of up to 50 YEARS" (1)
- State Official: So much buried oil, boat motors "turn up globules of oil" and leave a trail of "long sheen" (5)
- New Study: Only takes HALF as much Vibrio bacteria to KILL FISH if in low oxygen and high carbon dioxide environment -- "Cell death" indicated in "only a day" (2)
- Nungesser in landslide (6)
- "Talks with BP have become more difficult" because of LACK OF MEDIA COVERAGE say state officials - BP now in "a deny, a delay or a defend mode" (8)
- Giant oil plume appears to have climbed into shallower waters of continental shelf (VIDEO) (36)
- Oil and dispersant "PERMANENTLY restructured" coastal areas in Alaska -- "Much, much smaller" amount than in Gulf (VIDEO) (0)
- CHSL Update: Kindra still struggling with staph, Vicki being treated for respiratory problems, Joannie "only 7% vision now" in left eye -- Neurologist unsure if it will return (34)
- Expert Testimony: Oil “very stubbornly resists breakdown” — That’s why it’s MILLIONS of years old (VIDEO) (0)
- Beach appears black and is oozing sheen in Ocean Springs (PHOTOS) (14)
- BP STOPPED scientists working for COAST GUARD from taking SAMPLES — Delayed 3 weeks… Mission was to measure amount of oil (VIDEO) (2)
- BP workers: We were sprayed with dispersant at night by plane with no lights... now skin lesions, fluid in lungs -- "We just want medical help" (VIDEO) (54)
- Plaintiff’s attorney disagrees that BP never used dispersant in INSHORE areas — “Comfortable” they will be able to prove it in court (0)
- Man said to be "severely ill after swallowing oil and chemical dispersant" while trying to rescue drowning child from Gulf (VIDEOS) (8)
- Husband and wife "sprayed" while sleeping on boat... woke up SOAKING WET; Sores, BP crud -- Under investigation by Feds (VIDEO) (6)
- Footage of Kindra Arnesen's confrontation with BP’s Ken Feinberg (VIDEO) (3)
- NOAA finds “NO VISIBLE OIL” in any samples of sea floor from “areas around the site” of BP’s blow-out (8)
- "Largest PAH change I've seen" in career -- Almost all of most toxic compounds showed a 4000% increase "of what would enter into an organism" (9)
- OPAHs form when PAHs degrade -- Scientists have "GREAT CONCERN" because "PERSISTENT" and "more mobile"... Dispersant + UV rays in Gulf = risk of even more OPAHs (8)
- Researchers find up to "40-fold increase" of "toxic" PAHs while sampling air and water along 400 miles of Gulf -- Entire month of data lost after device "disappeared" (1)
- Researcher finds layer of "slime" up to four inches thick at bottom of Gulf that's "affecting" marine life (2)
- Microbiologist researching "fish with mutated gills or mutated fins" via changes to DNA from oil; Mutations can be inherited and permanent -- What about microbes? (VIDEO) (3)
- Fed's on-scene coordinator: Oil still washing ashore in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana (8)
- BP now in charge of re-educating students in public schools "to dispel myths about dispersants" -- With SPECIAL help from Feds (21)
- Aid groups in Gulf experiencing a troubling number of health problems (COMPILATION VIDEO) (3)
- BP contractors now "DRILLING FOR OIL ON Alabama BEACHES"... "and finding it" -- Tourist "amazed" at what's down there (VIDEO) (6)
- CHSL Radio program cancelled: Kindra Arnesen "very ill with staph"; Joannie Hughes in hospital, doctor "worried about neurotoxins" (VIDEO) (28)
- “Gulf fishermen DOING BETTER THANKS TO SPILL” — “THRIVING THANKS TO BP” (5)
- Things are getting worse, way worse... it's just shocking -- and no one is doing anything (VIDEO) (10)
- STILL NO TESTS: State agency could not find “viable samples” from massive fishkills… because fish produce “oil of their own” and could be contaminated — Low oxygen blamed (6)
- All four members of Project Gulf Impact were in hospital after "CHEMICAL POISONING" (VIDEO) (1)
- Internal organs of dead bird were 2.3% Petroleum Hydrocarbons (Lab Results) (2)
- Oil “everywhere” and buried “UP TO SIX FOOT” near FL border says BP worker — “They've just been covering it up” (VIDEO) (2)
- Dispersant-aided biodegradation may cause “a different ecosystem” to grow in Gulf says EPA administrator (VIDEO) (4)
- 30% of coastal residents surveyed from Louisiana to FL said health "Significantly Affected" by oil disaster -- Doctors didn't realize problem would be "that big" (VIDEO) (2)
- L.A. Times publishes disturbing photo of child playing on Florida beach surrounded by oil cleanup workers (PHOTO) (4)
- Head of EPA says that using dispersants in the Gulf was a "VERY EVIL" situation (VIDEO) (4)
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LATEST HEADLINES:
- AP: 2 years later, fish sick near BP disaster -- Sores, parasitic infections, gashes, mysterious black streaks -- Fish, coral, seaweed, dolphins, mangroves, more
- Gulf Seafood Deformities Raise Questions Among Scientists -- Eyeless shrimp, lesioned fish and other mutated and underdeveloped marine life
- AP: BP oil spill the culprit for slow death of deep-sea coral, scientists say
- NYTimes: Gulf Dolphins Exposed to Oil Are Seriously Ill, Agency Says
- Gulf Coast Children Experiencing Health Challenges (VIDEO)
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