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Would You Drive 5.4 Miles Less A Day to End Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Members of a Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Team removes oil from a beach in Port Fourchon, La.–part of ongoing response efforts to minimize shoreline impacts from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill, May 23, 2010. Photo: US Coast Guard via flickr. With fingers and toes crossed, for the moment at least, it appears that BP’s ‘top kill’ is working and the month-long gusher of oil may be coming to an end . So, how do get to a place as a nation where we don… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Gulf Oil Spill Officially the Worst in US History

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Photo via the LA Times By BP and the US Coast Guard’s own conservative estimates, the spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now officially the worst in US history. Those estimates place the leak as having let 19 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, 8 million more than the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989. But another federal agency, the US Geological Survey, just conducted an independent study, and found that it’s much, much wors… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oil Cleanup Workers Feeling Sickly – Is it the Oil, the Dispersant, Or Both?

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Sick bed . Image credit: Chuck Connelly Gallery . WDSU, has a story out of Lafitte LA, in which Fishermen Report Illness From BP Chemicals . Here’s the substance of it: “The fishermen are working out in the Gulf — many of them all day, every day — to clean up the spill. They said they blame their ailments on the chemicals that BP is using.” Though the story does not come right out and say so, it seems as though they are referring to chemicals used in the

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BP Now Owns the Airspace Above the Spill, Too – Bars Journalists From Flying Over It

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image: Toby Oxborrow (no photo graphic) & US Coast Guard (controlled burn of oil spill) Stories about BP contractors working hand in glove with the Coast Guard and local police to prevent full coverage of the effects of the oil spill have been coming out for some time now–and don’t seem to be going away. Newsweek reports that everyone from traditiona… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fox News: "We Can’t Trust BP" (Video)

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Obama has just wrapped up a press conference affirming his administration’s leadership role in the BP Gulf spill response. Calls have been mounting from all over for the federal government to step up its authority, as BP has been called out as untrustworthy by environmentalists, concerned locals, and even Fox News. Yes, you might think that the conservative network would back Tea Party star Rand Paul, who said that Obama was being too harsh on BP — but as this video attests, the anchors at Fox are incensed:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oil Spill in the Mangroves Is a Disgusting, Sticky Mess (Exclusive Photos + Video)

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

No joke, this is Philippe dipping his hand into oil on a Louisiana beach. All photos and video courtesy of Philippe Cousteau. Guest blogger Philippe Cousteau is chief ocean correspondent for Planet Green , and will host the network’s forthcoming Blue August programming. He is reporting from the Gulf oil spill in Louisiana. Grand Isle, Louisiana – May 25, 2010 Another early morning, all the more early because we didn’t stop work till 2 a.m. last night. Today we head off … Read the full story on TreeHugger