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It has been eight days since the deep Water Horizon sank into the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the GRN continued to monitor the situation on the front lines. Early this morning I went out on a boat with Captain Raymond Schmitt, activists Jo Billups and Karen Harvill, and Reuters/Greenpeace photographer Sean Gardner from New Orleans. […]

Ben Raines at the Mobile Press-Register is reporting on a confidential government report which reveals new concerns that BP’s drilling disaster could become “an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.” According to the report, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are afraid that additional new leaks from the

As we speak, GRN’s Jonathan Henderson is on the water touring the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in coastal Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The first reports of oil from the BP drilling disaster making landfall occurred near this area last night.According to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Delta NWR’s

Cross-posted from SkyTruth:Gulf Oil Spill Rate Must be Much Higher Than Stated – 6 million gallons so far?”Based on SkyTruth’s latest satellite observations today of the size of the oil slick and published data on the thickness of floating oil at sea that produces a visible sheen (1 micron, or 0.000001 meters) we think the

We’ve been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support. We understand the nature of this slow-motion tragedy inspires a sense of helplessness, and we want all interested parties to be a part of the necessary solutions. One quick and easy thing to do is to take action and ensure the lessons of this disaster are learned

photos courtesy AP.As the oil is pushed ashore by strong winds, booms are showing their limitations. We’re glad to see federal military resources being brought to this slow motion tragedy, but we’re going to need more help, as this fragile ecosystem is hammered by the river of oil, still uncontrolled, coming ashore. Looking at the

We can see it from space, and we can smell it from New Orleans.

Our friends at Greenpeace captured some images of cleanup at the surface of the oil plume, which has been revised upward to a flow rate of over 200,000 gallons a day. Finally some cleanup is being done, but with weather conditions anticipated to get worse, unlikely this will be able to continue. Unsure if attempts

BP and the Coast Guard should have been more prepared to deal with a deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The following summary of a year 2000 intentional deepwater oil spill research experiment undercuts the Coast Guard’s claims that the Deepwater Horizon spill is something that no one could have been prepared for.The

Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry admitted tonight that the BP oil drilling disaster is pumping over 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf. Given that the rig sank on the 22nd, we can now estimate that somewhere close to 1.5 million gallons of oil have been released into the Gulf. This spill