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Alabama’s plans to build convention center with BP oil spill recovery funds sparks anger

Posted: May 10, 2013 Environmental

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is receiving $94 million from BP to restore its share of the Gulf Coast in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the governor plans to spend more than 90 percent of those

BP oil, dispersants sickening and deforming a spectrum of sea life, scientists warn

Posted: May 6, 2013 Environmental

Fish with open, oozing lesions and shrimp and crabs with no eyes, no eye sockets, and horrible deformities are becoming alarmingly common in the Gulf of Mexico, and scientists monitoring the problem worry that all the toxic pollution unleashed by

Belize Supreme Court overturns contracts, sparing barrier reef from offshore drillers

Posted: May 5, 2013 Environmental

Defying government and big-business interests, Belize’s Supreme Court has declared offshore drilling contracts awarded by the Belize government since 2004 to be null and void. The stunning ruling represents a huge victory for the second-largest barrier reef in the world

Is lack of corporate safety amounting to a ‘terror’ all its own?

Posted: May 4, 2013 Personal Injury

If lawmaking proponents of deregulation have their way, Americans won’t have to worry about being harmed by random foreign terrorists so much as they will by the danger and catastrophe presented by many of our own factories, oil rigs, mines,

Mexico, hundreds of others sue BP over Gulf oil spill damages

Posted: May 4, 2013 Environmental

Mexico is pursuing legal action against BP for its role in spilling millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf. The lawsuit was filed in March just before the third anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11

Gulf residents, ecology facing deadly aftershocks of BP’s oil spill cover-up

Posted: April 28, 2013 Environmental

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

Posted: April 26, 2013 Environmental

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

Posted: April 24, 2013 Environmental

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

Posted: April 19, 2013 Environmental

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

Some Gulf species in peril after BP oil spill, but seafood marketers upbeat

Posted: April 16, 2013 Environmental

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