Casey DeMoss Roberts

Dispersants, like Corexit 9500/9527, are a mixture of solvents, surfactants and other unknowns that are designed to make oil more soluble in water. Most of what is known about the toxicity of dispersants and dispersed oil is based on acute toxicity tests.[1] The scientific literature suggests that acute (short-term) toxicity tests with death as the […]

Representatives from the Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and BP have been traveling around Mississippi and Louisiana to take questions from scared residents. I attended the meeting in Ocean Springs

On Lisa Jackson, head of EPA, met with non-governmental organizations in New Orleans to share information. Ms. Jackson reported that EPA has been focused on air, water, and sediment sampling to establish a baseline. This is critically important to show quantitatively what the BP oil drilling disaster will add to our environment. EPA is posting

So much can change in a day. Yesterday, May 4th, Ship Island Excursions hosted a boat tour of Ship Island, one of the islands in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. It was a gorgeous day. Dolphins were playing in the water just as the ship slowed to dock on the northern side of the island

In 2007, the state of Mississippi was granted $600+ million in federal Katrina relief funds to solve sewage and water quality problems exposed by the storm. While much of this money will go to recovery projects, the state wants to use some of these taxpayer dollars to subsidize developers’ projects that threaten Mississippi’s streams, wildlife,

The Mississippi Chapter of the Sierra Club opposes the highway department’s proposed alternative C four-laning of highway 15 on several grounds.Though a four-lane evacuation route out of Biloxi is inevitable, we cannot support a new “real estate road” cutting across the massive flood plain at the Harrison-Jackson County line. The massive disruption and damage to

Listen | White House, Senate Dems Oppose Torture Commission, Energy Lobbyists Tried to Debunk Global Warming Despite Own Scientists’ Findings, Activists Conclude Indigenous Climate Summit, and more. (4/24/09 Democracy Now)Interview with Allison McCrary and Aaron Viles on why they are picking on Shell Oil at Jazz Fest this year. Sound not available for this show.Allison

*This blog was originally posted to LACOASTPOST.com, an independent, interactive forum for an ongoing informed discussion of the status and future of the Louisiana coast. The mission of LACOASTPOST.com is to provide a real time venue in which to debate the current and projected state of our coast, including scientific, socioeconomic, fiscal and political issues.Three

Listen | Snippet of distinguished individuals speaking at the recent 3 day symposium titled “Mississippi Freshwater Diversion Summit” which was designed to be a serious discourse on rebuilding Louisiana’s coast using Diversions.But, what is a Diversion? Well, it is when you take water from the Mississippi River and spill it (or divert it) over land

According to a new study by Audubon Florida, Governor Charlie Crist is enjoying a huge approval rate for his work on climate change, which includes policies for clean cars, renewable energy, and reduction of global warming pollution. This finding might have something to do with another fact: a majority of Florida voters believe that global