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After Hurricane Katrina, Congress sent millions of dollars in recovery money to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to help families rebuild and communities recover, but not all of that money went where it was supposed to. Instead, many recovery dollars meant to help low-income families find homes were funneled into pork barrel projects like the proposed […]

The one year memorial of the BP oil drilling disaster is fast approaching and Congress has yet to enact legislation to safeguard the Gulf from future disasters. The media has moved on, but the oil is still out there and it continues to impact our wildlife and coastal communities. With this urgency in mind, GRN

If you’ve been paying attention to our blog, or the news, you know there’s more oil spewing into the Gulf and affecting parts of the coast, but the origins seem to remain a mystery.When GRN flew over the slicks (yes, with an “s”) earlier this week, the lack of response activity was striking. Despite this

On March 23, 2011, GRN volunteers flew with Bonny Schumaker of On Wings of Care over the Gulf. Traveling south of Grand Isle, they spotted what appears to be large amounts of oil. GRN’s Jonathan Henderson describes what he saw on a similar flight on this blog, and today we have video.Videos below the break.

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