Yesterday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) used its administrative authority to raise the liability cap for offshore oil spill related damages from $75 million to $134 million. This increase, which was based on the pace of inflation, was the maximum amount allowed under the law.By using its legal power to raise the liability […]
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After the BP disaster, the President’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling recommended improvements needed to increase the safety of offshore drilling. Reporter David Hammer of WWLTV recently discovered that a training center — touted as central to the federal government’s efforts to improve offshore drilling safety after the
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We’re happy to report two pieces of good news about the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – East’s efforts to hold oil and gas companies accountable for their role in Louisiana’s coastal land loss. Last week, a Judge ruled that Act 544, a law passed by the legislature that was designed to squash the Authority’s
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This articles is excerpted fromGulf Currents, GRN’s printed newsletter. To read the rest of the Summer 2014 edition of Gulf Currents, clickhere.Oil leaking from a submerged pipeline in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. April 11th, 2014. Photo: Jonathan Henderson, GRN. Flight provided by Southwings.orgGulf Restoration Network is continuing our work to watchdog the impacts of the energy
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The past four months as a member of Gulf Restoration Network’s Summer Outreach Team was nothing short of an adventurous roller coaster ride. There was sweat, blood, and tears shed in my fight to restore the Gulf Coast. The sweat, of course, was a product of the sweltering southern heat that only momentarily let up
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This articles is excerpted from Gulf Currents, GRN’s quarterly newsletter. To read the rest of the Summer 2014 edition of Gulf Currents, click here.A platform making its way down one of many channels in Terrebonne Parish, LA. Photo: Jonathan Henderson, GRN. Flight provided by Southwings.org.Many coastal advocates are reeling after Governor Bobby Jindal and the
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Senate Bill 469, legislation meant to block a lawsuit against 97 oil and gas companies for their damage to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, passed the Louisiana legislature in June and was signed into law by Governor Jindal, becoming Act 544. The lawsuit, brought by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, is intended to restore wetlands necessary
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