Dan Favre

Gulf Earth Month

Remember the Gulf this Earth Day . . . and this entire Earth Month!April is Earth Month, and throughout the country, people will be celebrating the wonders of our natural environment and working hard to protect the planet. For the Gulf, April is also a month of memorializing the on-going BP oil disaster that began …

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GRN Has a New Look!

You may notice a little something different about healthygulf.org . . . or when you receive your Gulf Currents newsletter . . . or when you see us out tabling at a concert in your community. We’ve upgraded our logo and other graphics to help solidify our regional identity and make it easier to recognize …

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Happy Holidays

In the heart of the holiday season, I just want to take a minute to say happy holidays and thanks for an incredible year.The GRN staff started off the week with our annual two-day staff retreat, this year out at Tickfaw State Park in Louisiana. Many times over those couple days, I was happily reminded …

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Groups Call on President Obama to Protect River Communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:Cynthia Sarthou, GRN, 504-525-1528 x202, cyn@healthygulf.orgLorin Crandall, MCE, 314-727-0600, lcrandall@moenviron.org Forty-four Groups Call On President Obama to Protect River CommunitiesAmerica needs water projects that “protect and restore the natural flood fighting defenses of the nation’s rivers and wetlands.”(New Orleans, LAJune 22, 2011) A coalition of more than forty conservation and social justice groups …

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Gulf Future: A Unified Action Plan for a Healthy Gulf

Today, thirty-six organizations unveiled a collaborative effort called Gulf Future: A Unified Action Plan for A Healthy Gulf. The diverse group is made up of fishermen, faith leaders, environmentalists, clean-up workers, and residents who live, work, and play on the Gulf Coast. The organizations come from all five Gulf Coast states and represent culturally and …

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GRN Response to BP’s 2010 Sustainability Report

Despite the promises to change and other platitudes listed in BP’s 2010 sustainability report, the reality here in the Gulf is that BP is minimizing the severity of their drilling disaster and short-changing the communities still-reeling from BP’s crude and corexit. From efforts to limit their liability for environmental damages to huge issues with the …

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