Healthy Gulf

Latest projections for the BP oil drilling disaster’s footprint, courtesy of NOAA.Raleigh Hoke is GRN’s Mississippi Organizer

On wide swaths of the Gulf were closed to recreational and commercial fishing for at least ten days due to the BP oil drilling disaster. Across the Gulf coast, fishermen, restaurant owners, and those who rely on coastal tourism are already experiencing major economic and emotional challenges. As tough as the initial consequences of this

Check out this USA Today produced video, featuring GRN’s Cynthia Sarthou (around the 3 minute mark), on the impacts of the BP oil drilling disaster on recreational and commercial fishing and the health of the Gulf of Mexico. Raleigh Hoke is GRN’s Mississippi Organizer

Our friends at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade have just released an interactive Oil Spill Crisis map. This great tool allows concerned citizens on the ground throughout the Gulf to quickly and easily submit short reports on what is going on in their communities. As BP’s oil drilling disaster continues to unfold, it’s more and more

As the BP drilling disaster continues to spew oil into the Gulf, it has become pretty apparent that British Petroleum and government officials had little to no plan for dealing with a catastrophe of this magnitude. Instead, blind faith in the impossibility of a major blowout in deepwater, coupled with efforts to push for less

Ben Raines at the Mobile Press-Register is reporting on a confidential government report which reveals new concerns that BP’s drilling disaster could become “an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.” According to the report, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are afraid that additional new leaks from the

As we speak, GRN’s Jonathan Henderson is on the water touring the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in coastal Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The first reports of oil from the BP drilling disaster making landfall occurred near this area last night.According to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Delta NWR’s

Cross-posted from SkyTruth:Gulf Oil Spill Rate Must be Much Higher Than Stated – 6 million gallons so far?”Based on SkyTruth’s latest satellite observations today of the size of the oil slick and published data on the thickness of floating oil at sea that produces a visible sheen (1 micron, or 0.000001 meters) we think the

As the consequences from the massive BP oil drilling disaster in the Gulf continue to unfold, proponents of increased offshore drilling have remained remarkably silent about how “safe and environmentally friendly” offshore drilling can be. However, some drilling supporters do like to point out how rarely accidents like this occur.Oil drilling disasters of this magnitude

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to grow at a disturbing rate and the latest news from BP officials isn’t exactly reassuring. In fact, the chief operating officer of BP Exploration and Production said that they intend to lower a huge dome over the ocean bottom to capture the leaking oil.