Environmental Articles
EPA voices serious objections to TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an Environmental Impact assessment of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone Pipeline XL project, sharply criticizing the State Department’s own recent environmental review of the plan. If allowed to proceed, the $7-billion pipeline would transport millions of
Scientists link insect population decline in Gulf wetlands to BP oil spill
Spiders and insect populations are declining in Louisiana’s coastal marshes and other wetlands along the Gulf Coast, and scientists believe BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is the culprit. The findings may signal the early stages of a broader, deeper
Gulf residents, ecology facing deadly aftershocks of BP’s oil spill cover-up
Nearly three years after BP doused its monstrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill with Corexit oil dispersants, the media has finally started to report on just how dangerous the chemicals, which are meant to break oil down into tiny particles for
Florida sues BP and Halliburton for $5.5 billion over oil spill damages
The State of Florida filed a lawsuit against BP and some of its affiliated companies last week on the third anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 workers and turned much of the northern Gulf of Mexico into
Report details how Corexit dispersant made BP oil spill many times more toxic
A new report published by the nation’s leading whistleblower advocacy group provides one of the most thoroughly researched, comprehensive independent analyses of BP’s unrestrained use of Corexit oil dispersants to break up the oil that blasted from its Macondo well
BP oil spill still imperils sea life three years later, new report finds
Three years have passed since BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing a torrent of oil from its blown-out Macondo well that created the worst oil disaster in the history of the United States. But while
Mayflower, Arkansas, residents falling ill after ExxonMobil oil spill
ExxonMobil insists the air in the area just outside the epicenter of its Mayflower, Arkansas, pipeline breach is safe to breathe. Public health advocates, however, warn that even very low levels of fumes from the oil spill can affect populations
Some Gulf species in peril after BP oil spill, but seafood marketers upbeat
When the Tampa Bay Times published an article about the number of sick fish that continue to turn up in the Gulf of Mexico three years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Gulf Seafood Marketing Coalition offered to send
Major oil spills in Arkansas, Texas, Utah receive little notice in the public eye
Have oil spills become so common in the U.S. that they are no longer considered news? The same week that ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured, spewing thousands of barrels of sticky bitumen sludge all over an Arkansas town, two other oil
Homeowners sue ExxonMobil over Arkansas oil spill damage
Despite ExxonMobil’s promises to clean up thousands of barrels of dense Canadian tar sands oil that flooded an Arkansas community, residents of the contaminated town have filed a class-action lawsuit against the oil giant.
