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Oil Still Free Flowing Into The GulfYou may recall reading a blog post from July 1st where I talk about a leak that has been ongoing on the Gulf since 2004. Well, oil is STILL leaking from the site of the Taylor Energy platform (Platform 23051) that was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. The […]

Treatment Pond at Temple-Inland’s Bogalusa, LA Paper Mill. Photo courtesy of Southwings and GRN.This summer, GRN’s Healthy Waters team has been busy keeping up the fight to protect the Gulf’s rivers, bayous and streams for future generations. From working to hold Temple-Inland corporation accountable for their massive fish kill in the Pearl River to pushing

The US Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation & Enforcement (BOEMRE, say “Bummer”) released what may be the final report in the long line of investigations into what went wrong and why offshore in the days and moments leading up to the deadly explosion which set in motion the BP deepwater

The last of the Pearl River Sturgeon:: Temple-Inland’s decades of damage in a matter of daysThe following has been submitted to the Louisiana Senate Environmental Quality Committee as public testimony.Temple-Inland’s release of black liquor has killed much life in the Pearl River. [We’ve written about it before, and we’re sure to write about it again.]

I took the photos below on a flyover late last week with On Wings of Care pilot Bonny Schumaker. The original plan was to get out on the water and beaches today and sample the area, and then post a blog including both aerial and ground level photos. Well, as luck would have it, the

Check out this guest blog from our friends at the 1 Mississippi Campaign and visit their new, interactive website.Visit. Learn. Tell Congress what’s up. The newly redesigned website for the 1 Mississippi campaign urges visitors to get involved in a great variety of ways to protect America’s greatest River. The site–www.1mississippi.org–is designed to reach a

NEW ORLEANS While the Pearl River is still recovering from the discharge of “black liquor” and resulting massive fish kill, LDEQ has recently authorized Temple-Inland paper the industry that has admitted to causing the fish kill to resume operations and once again discharge pollutants into the Pearl.In response to this premature plant reopening, Gulf Restoration

Gulf Restoration Network has teamed up with two great supporters, and you can help support our work by voting for us and downloading some great music!Microist, a brand new, fast-paced philanthropy site that uses the power of social media and micro-donations to raise awareness and money for non-profit organizations. Vote for GRN on their site

Bird’s Eye View: WarningWarning: If you are offended by large amounts of oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico, do not click here. On a flyover yesterday by our friend Bonny Schumaker, lead pilot for On Wings of Care, she spotted yet more oil near the Macondo well. What she saw yesterday was much more oil

Earlier this week, I spoke to a woman who has spent most of her life living near the Pearl River. One of her fond childhood memories involved sighting a threatened Gulf Sturgeon while on the river with her dad. Because of the Temple-Inland paper plant’s illegal discharge of “black liquor” into the Pearl earlier this