Matt Preusch

Kemp’s ridley turtle is species hardest hit by oil disaster

Today the federal agency responsible for monitoring marine species provided for the first time figures for the number of each type of species impacted from BP’s oild drilling disaster.The Gulf Restoration Network has been pressing federal agencies for a species-by-species tally of the wildlife harmed by oil from BP’s as yet uncontrolled blowout in the …

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Presidential commission begins hearings in New Orleans

President Obama’s commission on BP’s oil drilling disaster began two days of hearings this morning in a conference room in the New Orleans Hilton.The commission, led by former Florida Senator Bob Graham and former EPA administrator William Reilly, will take up the issue of the disaster’s environmental impact tomorrow.But already today the unprecedented volume of …

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Federal wildlife officials downplayed the threat Gulf oil drilling posed to brown pelicans

When federal wildlife officials removed the brown pelican from the list of threatened or endangered species late last year, they downplayed the threat an oil spill in the gulf would have on the future of the species.And the agency charged with protecting the bird largely deferred to the now disgraced Minerals Management Service when it …

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