Last Gulf Restoration Network staff joined shrimpers Clint Guidry and Glenn J. Poche, Sr., to assess the ongoing impacts from and response to BP’s oil drilling disaster on the Gulf Coast.The winds and waters of coastal Louisiana were calm again after days of stormy weather, enabling a first-hand look at the disaster’s effects on fragile …
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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The letter below just showed up in my in-box. I thought it was a powerful testimony to the significant and lasting impacts BP’s oil is having on the familes that rely on the Gulf for so much.A Letter from the Gulf Coast: I am sixty-one years old, have never done one blog, computer search or …
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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 …
Last Saturday the first BP tar balls were found on Texas beaches between Sabine Pass and Galveston Island.Scientists expected BP oil to land on Texas beaches at some point, but they did not foresee the characteristic red/brown color oil that has been found on beaches closer to the blowout. After traveling nearly 400 miles, weathered, …
Use your creative talent to help restore the Gulf of Mexico’s coast and communities. Enter the Gulf Restoration Network and Charitable Film Network’s 3rd Annual “Protect our Wetlands, Protect Ourselves” Video Competition. The popular environmental video competition is seeking entries from the public to help tell the stories of the Gulf’s environmental issues, and winners …