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We need your help as the Gulf of Mexico faces another devastating disaster. BP’s oil drilling disaster significantly threatens our environment, coastal communities, and economy. The massive oil leak continues to spew from the ocean floor with the slick growing at an alarming rate and now reaching our delicate coastal areas. For 15 years, the […]

So much can change in a day. Yesterday, May 4th, Ship Island Excursions hosted a boat tour of Ship Island, one of the islands in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. It was a gorgeous day. Dolphins were playing in the water just as the ship slowed to dock on the northern side of the island

Latest projections for the BP oil drilling disaster’s footprint, courtesy of NOAA.Raleigh Hoke is GRN’s Mississippi Organizer

There was an eerie feeling today out along the Louisiana coastline. When will it get here? When will the massive amounts of oil perched just off of our shoreline make its way into our wetlands? How are the birds? Did you see any dead sea-turtles? What about the booms? Were they there? Those are just

On wide swaths of the Gulf were closed to recreational and commercial fishing for at least ten days due to the BP oil drilling disaster. Across the Gulf coast, fishermen, restaurant owners, and those who rely on coastal tourism are already experiencing major economic and emotional challenges. As tough as the initial consequences of this

Check out this USA Today produced video, featuring GRN’s Cynthia Sarthou (around the 3 minute mark), on the impacts of the BP oil drilling disaster on recreational and commercial fishing and the health of the Gulf of Mexico. Raleigh Hoke is GRN’s Mississippi Organizer

Our friends at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade have just released an interactive Oil Spill Crisis map. This great tool allows concerned citizens on the ground throughout the Gulf to quickly and easily submit short reports on what is going on in their communities. As BP’s oil drilling disaster continues to unfold, it’s more and more

As the BP drilling disaster continues to spew oil into the Gulf, it has become pretty apparent that British Petroleum and government officials had little to no plan for dealing with a catastrophe of this magnitude. Instead, blind faith in the impossibility of a major blowout in deepwater, coupled with efforts to push for less

Both addressed this slow-motion nightmare this weekend, with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder taking a moment from a blistering set at Jazz Fest to offer a similar thought for BP execs, “Send your sons and daughters to clean up your fu@#ing mess.”And this afternoon, President Barack Obama visited Venice Louisiana, where most of the work

GRN’s board member, and coastal Mississippi-based environmental attorney Robert Wiygul, pointed out to us, that BP’s federally registered plan for the development of this oil field included, and required, no plan to deal with the worst-case scenerio (such as the one currently threatening the North Central Gulf’s coast and communities). An AP article inspired by