The Spokane Riverkeeper is remembering the BP oil spill one year later as well, calling for action with the Gulf Waterkeepers. He asks you to "join them in calling on government to make communities whole again, commit to cleaning up and restoring the Gulf, hold…
A picture says a thousand words and Grist has a photo series of Gulf residents one year later. "The leak was plugged up, but the mess isn't gone. Meet some of the people whose lives have been turned upside-down by the BP disaster. Photos and…
150 bills were introduced to improve the safety and oversight of offshore drilling and nothing happened. There were more than 60 hearings to discuss the spill's causes and consequences with regulators, oil company officials, grieving relatives and Gulf-area fishermen and nothing happened. Where is the…
To mark the one-year anniversary of the worst oil spill in history, I'm posting heavily today in remembrance of the explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and releasing nearly 200 million gallons of oil, tens of millions of gallons of natural gas…
I'm still angry. So is Kate Sheppard. The Mother Jones reporter lists ten reasons, one of the strongest: People are still sick. Nearly three-quarters of Gulf coast residents that the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental justice group, polled this year reported health concerns that they…
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