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Yesterday, we spotted what appeared to be new oil in the Gulf of Mexico, but the exact source of the oil was impossible to pin-point. There seems to be a lot of unanswered questions and confusion about what is happening in the Gulf.Louisiana State Wildlife and Fisheries officials have stated that they traced oil to […]

You may have heard recent reports of an oily sheen spotted by fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico. We did too, so today, along with Gavin Garrison of Project Gulf Impact, I flew out over the Gulf to take a closer look. Thanks to Jo and Lamar Billups for making this flight possible!No thanks to

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

Are you headed to Earth Fest at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans this weekend? Well, you won’t find Gulf Restoration Network there.After years of successful outreach at the event, we had to pull out this year. Last week, when we realized that BP was the main sponsor of the event (who made that decision?),

While GRN was working late into the night with 49 other organizations to help develop an action plan for a healthy Gulf, House Republicans, the oil industry and their unquestioning supporters were up in DC, lobbing bombs at our beleagered basin.In both the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee and the House Committee on Natural

From Steve Kolian at EcoRigs . . .A team of three scientific divers found high levels of ethyl benzene and xylene in their blood after completing 15-20, -dives of approximately 30 minutes, while wearing full wet suits. The diving was done over the summer and early fall of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico Main

Some of our friends upriver are speaking out for the Gulf and the Dead Zone! The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) of Greater Chicago is one of the largest municipal sources of nitrogen and phosphorous pollution that pollutes local waters, as well as causes the Dead Zone in the Gulf every spring and summer. Despite

The people and places of the Gulf Coast have been hit hard by the worst oil disaster in US history. It is outrageous that nearly eleven months later, legislation has not been passed to safeguard the future of these communities or ensure the environmental restoration of the region.Our latest Gulf Tides episode takes a look

David Newman is the Oceans Program Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Check out his post below, and visit his blog here. ——————— The government agencies responsible for overseeing the assessment and restoration of natural resources damaged by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have just announced the beginning of a

Gulfport, MS- The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled that Hancock County Development, LLC violated the federal Clean Water Act when it began construction of a large residential and commercial development in approximately 700 acres of wetlands near Bay St. Louis. The company violated the law by discharging storm water from