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Yesterday, thanks to the generous support of GRN member and Gulf coast environmental activist, Jo Billups of the environmental music duo Sassafrass, I took another flight over the gulf coast to assess oil impacts and containment and clean-up efforts, if you can call it that. With me on board was Sig from Rehage entertainment, the […]

One of the most fascinating and unique features of the Gulf of Mexico is a string of thriving deepwater coral reefs which ring the Gulf. In recent years, NOAA and others, including GRN, have been interested in designating many of these deepwater reefs as Marine Protected Areas, but most of these areas still lack such

For Immediate Release: For More:June 1, 2010 Cynthia Sarthou, GRN, (504) 525-1528 Mary Lee Orr, LEAN, (225) 588-5059 Heather Emmert, Environment America, (504) 861-4427 Joel Waltzer, Esq., (504) 340-6300Gulf Restoration Network, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and Environment America Intend to Use Federal Clean Water Act to Force BP to Full Disclosure and Deployment of All

Check out the 2nd episode in our ongoing series documenting BP’s drilling disaster, and its impacts on the Gulf ecosystem and coastal communities. This episodes features images of coastal marsh and seaturtles affected by BP’s crude, and interviews with Mike Lane of RodNReel.com, Dean Blanchard of Blanchard Seafood, and Cyn Sarthou with the Gulf Restoration

The slow moving nightmare that is BP’s oil drilling disaster is escalating as a significant amount of oil is now reaching Louisiana’s delicate wetlands. This critical situation requires a fight from all directions. While it seems overwhelming, GRN is fighting to protect our coast and address this disaster, and you can help. GRN has pressured

I was happy to share GRN’s perspective on C-SPAN’s national call-in show this morning. Watch my performance below. Aaron Viles is GRN’s campaign director. You can follow him on twitter, @GulfAaron

Oil impacts Redfish Bay in Louisiana’s bird’s foot delta, where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Photographed on May 27 by Jeffrey Dubinsky, on a flyover Jeffrey and I took with Mike Tidwell, GRN advisory board member and author of “Bayou Farewell.” These photos have been used by Reuters, in a story

nydailynews.comBP can drill a well 25,000′ deep and steer the bit to a target the size of a basket ball over a mile away. That is impressive. But for some reason they can’t figure out how much oil is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.One would think that with BP’s vast knowledge and ability they