Aaron Viles

Bluefin tuna are incredible fish – the size of small trucks, swimming speeds of up to 50 mph, lifespans of 80 years – that are also incredibly threatened. Right now, there’s an unprecedented opportunity to help the beleaguered bluefin bounce back without overly burdening fishermen, and we need your help.The Gulf of Mexico had already […]

Louisiana’s modified coast. Photo GRN (cc)The past week or so has been an interesting and confusing time to be an advocate for Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts. Interesting, because there have been a number of different votes at the state and federal levels dealing with efforts to protect and restore our coast and communities. Confusing, because

Over an hour of shrimping in Port Sulphur brings in little catch. GRN photo, May 15, 2012.A news report from Ben Raines at the Mobile Press Register details some simple science that shows big increases in biomass in Alambama’s coastal waters in the fall of 2011. A simple shrimp trawl survey that the Dauphin Island

NOAA may be scrubbing the record of the BP disaster and suppressing documentation of the impact on turtles and whales. This possibility was revealed by Greenpeace this week, thanks to photos released by NOAA due to a FOIA submitted as part of GP’s Polluter Watch project, which also release hundreds of aerial impact shots last

Once you’ve watched the video, head here to send your support to Washington DC and demand that Congress act now to protect and restore the Gulf of Mexico.https://secure3.convio.net/grn/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&;page=UserAction&id=381Aaron Viles is GRN’s Deputy Director. You can follow him on twitter here.

As the second weekend of NOLA’s beloved Jazz Fest kicks off, GRN has a challenge for you. Watch our video commemorating the 2nd memorial of the BP drilling disaster, shot at and around the 2011 Voodoo Experience, and tell us how many of the artists featured in the video are playing the 2012 Jazz Fest.While

Louisiana and Texas Lawmakers quickly piled on the EPA last week, when Senator James Inhofe sought to take down the agency. Specifically, they were going after Dr. Al Armendariz, the former Regional Administrator of region 6 of the EPA, after a video surfaced of Dr. Armendariz discussing his enforcement strategy. Using a regrettable analogy, Dr.

The second memorial of the BP drilling disaster last week was a whirlwind. While there was a marked drop off in national media attention from a year ago, we were glad to see the Gulf get attention from a wide variety of news outlets, the vast majority sharing stories that remind the nation that the

Co-Authored by Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA and Aaron Viles, Deputy Director of Gulf Restoration NetworkPhil Radford walks through oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead along the break water in Southpass where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana. 05/20/2010The BP disaster turns two today. Two years since the nation

Remember the Gulf this Earth MonthThis week marks the 2 year memorial of the BP drilling disaster, and the Gulf of Mexico can not seem to catch a break. The 2nd anniversary of the disaster is occuring as high gas prices encourage politicians and oil industry backers to demand more domestic oil drilling under the