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I began the week talking and strategizing about how important a federally-led effort is for comprehensive Gulf restoration, and am closing it out with a reminder of how much more needs to be done to even mitigate the BP impacts.Monday morning found me in Pensacola, attending the first meeting of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration […]

Yesterday, November 11, GRN set out on another excursion to assess impacts and clean-up efforts along Louisiana’s coast. We are able to continue with this important work thanks to the generous support of contributors like Threadless, Inc. Threadless CEO Tom Ryan, Art Director Ross Zietz, and Multimedia Specialist Craig Shimala came down from Chicago to

Today was the first day of the final two-day public hearing held by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling on the causes of the Macondo well blowout. The details of the events and the decisions that were made leading up to the blowout, as recreated by the Commission’s

One Lake Proposal, image courtesy of USACE.In 1979, Jackson, Mississippi experienced one the worst floods in the history of the state – costing half a billion dollars in damages and engulfing much of the state’s capital city. Almost since the floodwaters receded, people have been bickering about the best way to prevent a reoccurrence of

People are always asking me what they can do to help the Gulf. This month, in addition to donating, volunteering, and taking action, you can attend a great event at Mondo, Chef Susan Spicer’s new restaurant in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans.What could be better than supporting GRN while enjoying fabulous hors d’oeurves and

What a whirlwind! Three days of great weather and great music out at the Voodoo Experience in NOLA’s City Park was once again, an important opportunity for the Gulf Restoration Network to educate musicians and music worshippers about the need for action for a healthy Gulf.This was our fourth year as the festival’s official non-profit

Hundreds of scientists met in New Orleans today and yesterday to come together on research priorities and explore potential for collaboration. There were 2 themes repeated frequently: BP is not releasing oil or dispersant to scientists for study and research dollars are not being distributed efficiently.Where is BP’s Oil? BP, once egregiously generous with their

The Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) just released a report by Wilma Subra proving that local Gulf residents have been contaminated by oil.The blood from eight individuals, 3 women and 5 men, tested positive for ethylbenzene, m,p-xylene, and hexanes. Comparing the blood samples with regular, unexposed Americans1, the BP workers and community members had shockingly

In their latest Policy Journal, the Environmental Law Institute (www.eli.org) features a story called Learning from Disaster that poses the question, “Twenty-one years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, will reactions to the Deepwater Horizon blowout finally address the systemic flaws revealed in Alaska?” The author, Zygmund Plater, is a law professor who served as

Last week, I reported on a new leak east of the Mississippi River in an area known as Quarantine Bay. I mentioned that I contacted the State Police HazMat Unit as well as the National Response Team which works with the United States Coast Guard to investigate hazardous incidents. Well, I had to call them