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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

Amazing. Breathtaking. Inspiring. Cathartic. The TedxOilSpill talk brought together a wide range of individuals committed to creating a better world to share and generate new ideas. The organizers Nate Mook and David Troy self identify as entrepreneurs looking for market driven solutions that will pull all of us into a better tomorrow. Some themes that

Guest Blogger, Brent Evans, a Salon Development Partner for the Neill Corporation for Aveda has been involved with GRN for the past 5 years through our Earth Month partnership. What exactly is Boom? To me, prior to the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, it was a word that describes the loud sound heard during an explosion. Well,

Recently, the Department of Interior split what was the Minerals Management Service (MMS) into two separate agencies. The idea behind the split is that if the regulatory and leasing/revenue producing functions of the MMS are split, the conflict of interest will be removed and the regulatory agency will be better able to do its job.