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"The outer reefs, further out, where the salinity would be considerably higher, should have had some spat signals. But we don't see it anywhere, and that's really tough" ... Read more >>

Congressman reveals that BP official was allowed to review Feds' "Oil Budget" before publication — Listed as “independent scientist” by Obama administration

January 25th, 2011 at 07:47 PM

"His name was removed from later drafts and was not included in the final version of the report" ... Read more >>

What’s in the Gulf is “going to come ashore next hurricane” says city employee — “Something people oughta look into” (VIDEO)

January 25th, 2011 at 05:11 PM

Orange Beach Testing Beaches and More, WKRG, January 24, 2011:

"We're just checking behind BP making ... Read more >>

Gov't funding retraining for those who "will not be able to return to their previous lines of employment" because of oil disaster

January 25th, 2011 at 04:28 PM

Training grants available for people affected by BP oil spill, The Times-Picayune, January 25, 2011:

A ... Read more >>

Cousteau: The oil is at the bottom of the ocean — Disaster's impact to last for decades (VIDEO)

January 25th, 2011 at 10:23 AM

Message of coral reef conservation spread by avid diver and world traveler with a famous ... Read more >>

Professor contracted by BP criticizes news media — Mentions “conflicting interests”

January 25th, 2011 at 09:38 AM

OIL SPILL SYMPOSIUM: Disaster prompts campus event, University of Georgia Red and Black Newspaper, January ... Read more >>

Editorial Board: “Even when we no longer see the oil” it will likely impact Gulf waters for “generations”

January 25th, 2011 at 08:45 AM

BP must make it right, The News Star (Monroe, LA), January 25, 2011:

Alaska didn't see ... Read more >>

VOO worker: If officials keep lying to us, we're going to die (VIDEO)

January 25th, 2011 at 05:20 AM

Oil Spill Commission Final Report: Catfish Responds, FluxRostrum, January 24, 2011:

This is the highlight ... Read more >>

NEW STUDY: Warmer Water + Corexit/Oil = Massive Increase in DNA-Mutating, Cancer-Causing Enzyme

January 25th, 2011 at 03:08 AM

FOSL Summary: If exposed to a mixture of crude oil and Corexit 9500, an enzyme ... Read more >>

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”

January 24th, 2011 at 07:40 PM

The spill is “an intergenerational issue that we’ve stopped talking about six months after the fact,” Cousteau lamented. ... Read more >>

Alabama Paper: Did anyone really believe the oil just disappeared and that humans wouldn’t be affected?

January 24th, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Lingering effects of the oil spill: More testing should be done, Anniston Star, January 24, ... Read more >>

Bumble Bee Seafood shuts down processing plant near New Orleans, moves to Thailand -- Official blames oil disaster

January 24th, 2011 at 11:57 AM

Tony 'Ricky' Melerine fills new St. Bernard Parish fisheries post, Times-Picayune, January 24, 2011

[St. Bernard ... Read more >>

Biocide: Corexit prevents microbes from digesting the oil says official

January 24th, 2011 at 09:06 AM

Louisiana State Senator A.G. Crowe's January 16, 2011 letter:
Government officials stated over and over that ... Read more >>

ALERT: Louisiana Senator concerned that Corexit “is still being used”

January 24th, 2011 at 08:02 AM

Via Mac Mackenzie:

I emailed the Senator to confirm he wrote the letter and got this ... Read more >>

Family describes being sprayed with Corexit (VIDEOS)

January 24th, 2011 at 07:28 AM

Mississippi Family Sprayed with Corexit and 11 Year Old Boy Tests Postive for Chemical Poisoning, ... Read more >>

“Extremely toxic” crude oil could be “slowly killing” the people of the Gulf Coast says LSU columnist

January 24th, 2011 at 06:39 AM

Walking on Thin Ice: Politics come in second during an environmental crisis, The Daily Reveille ... Read more >>

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)

January 22nd, 2011 at 04:10 PM

Getting answers from BP, WEAR, January 19, 2011:

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WEAR-TV: But commissioners are...worried that there is ... Read more >>

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Florida Oil Spill Law

“Great damage” done to humans by oil disaster says director of NOAA-administered program

“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)

BP is paying to retrain fishermen so they can get “a new stable job”

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)

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)

Official: Birds are still dying after exposure to oil

100s of large containers of “discontinued” Corexit 9527A found near Houston (VIDEO)

Video of the black sludge coating ocean floor (VIDEO)

Oil leak shuts down BP’s largest onshore field in Western Europe since NOVEMBER — Not made public until yesterday

Scan of Senator A.G. Crowe's original letter to Pres. Obama -- "Toxicity level may INCREASE with time" (4 PAGES)

'First' Dispersant Study Funded by Feds: The Corexit “did NOT degrade”… “It didn’t go away” — May not have even broken up the oil

Chairman of Surfrider chapter in NW Florida “tested positive last month for large quantities of volatile solvents in his blood”

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)

"Really Alarming": No baby oysters being found in most productive areas of Louisiana -- "Scientists are baffled" (VIDEO)