Worst fears about BP oil washing ashore after Isaac are coming true
Last week, I reported on this blog there were early indications that Hurricane Isaac had indeed whipped up some of as much as 1 million gallons of BP's spill oil that remain in the Gulf, assaulting...
View ArticleBreaking: Spill settlement unraveling as Halliburton slams deal; BP stock...
BP's $8.7 billion attempt to put the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill behind it continues to come undone. In the latest unraveling of the oil giant's proposed settlement with thousands of Gulf residents...
View ArticleLouisiana unloads and blows giant hole in BP settlement
For the last 29 months, I've been chronicling the widespread and still-very-much-ongoing fallout from BP's gross negligence -- "a corporate culture of recklessness," as U.S. government lawyers called...
View ArticleWe object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”
The last couple of weeks have brought a lot of news – both good and bad – down here to the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaac was a double whammy; the storm itself destroyed homes and upended people’s lives,...
View ArticleNow, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR
You've got to say this about British Petroleum -- they have some nerve. For more than two years, we've been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the sick and...
View ArticleLouisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac
In recent months, I've joined with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and others in calling for the state's Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to be stripped of its powers and for the federal...
View ArticleA temporary reprieve from Shell’s risky and reckless Arctic drilling scheme
For the last couple of weeks, we've been consumed with the never-ending fallout from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. Some 29 months after the explosion that killed 11 people and spewed 5 million...
View ArticleTorn on the bayou: Sinkhole keeps getting bigger, more dangerous
A lot has happened over the last few weeks. In the political world, the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sees a new kerfuffle every few hours. Down here in Louisiana, we've been...
View ArticleThe sinkhole keeps getting bigger, and so do the lies of Texas Brine Co.
The crisis involving the Bayou Corne sinkhole in Louisiana just doesn't stop. In what's becoming an almost daily headline, the sinkhole grew again, swallowing up more trees and even part of an access...
View ArticleNew Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution
Sometimes a name can tell you a lot. In the past, I've told you about my enthusiastic support for a New Orleans group, active on Facebook and the Internet, that's called "Hear the Music, Stop the...
View ArticleThe Gulf oil spill that’s been going on for 9 years!
I've written many times about the aerial flights in the Gulf by Bonny Schumaker of the group On Wings of Care. Since the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010, Bonny has spent considerable time here on...
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – August 30, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleThe secret oil spill that’s eating away at the Gulf
The 2010 BP oil spill has had many unintended consequences. Here's another one: It tends to suck a lot of the oxygen from other serious environmental issues facing the Gulf of Mexico -- especially now...
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