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May 25

Summer’s Here, And There’s Something Missing From The Gulf of Mexico

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Memorial Day is considered the official start of summer — even down here on the Gulf where the mercury’s been rising for some time now. It’s a great holiday for hitting the beach, going camping, and throwing great barbecue on the grill — maybe a choice steak, or maybe seafood. But so far 2012 hasn’t been the greatest year for what the Aussies call “shrimp on the barbie.” Down here [...]

Posted in Main, Ocean Life, Oil Spill Facts, Wildlife Tagged alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP arrest, BP Claim, BP criminal charges, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Commission for a Sustainable London, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Greenest Games Ever, Greenwash Gold 2012, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, International Olympic Committee, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, Kurt Mix, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, London 2012, London Organizing Committee, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Summer Olympic Games, Tagged acoustic testing, Ursa, well blowout

May 24

News Round-Up: May 25, 2012

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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:

Ohio Legislators Approve New Drilling Rules

Seafood Industry Fighting for Life On Coast

Utility Says It Underestimated Radiation Released in Japan

Posted in Main, News Round-Up Tagged BP Lawsuit, Fracking, Fukushima, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hydraulic Fracturing, Hydrofracking, Nuclear radiation, Oil Spill Bp, Oil Spill Gulf, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radioactive Material, Response, Stuart Smith Cleanup Efforts

May 24

News Round-Up: May 24, 2012

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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:

NIOSH Sounds Alarm on Fracking Silica Exposures

The U.S. Practices Oil Tolerance

Fukushima Radiation Higher Than First Estimated

May 23

News Round-Up: May 23, 2012

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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:

Group Delivers 21,000 Petitions To Encana Over Fracking In Erie

Corexit Maker Nalco Gets Louisiana Credits For Plant

Concerns Focus on Fukushima Unit Stability

May 23

“A New Right of Love”: A Pennsylvania Farmer’s Moving Anti-Fracking Eulogy To His Wife

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I’ve been reading a lot lately about everyday Americans getting fed up with fracking — with the way that the big gas companies have been running roughshod over lush rolling hills and pristine farmland with their unsightly rigs, poisoning water supplies and polluting the air. But nothing has quite gotten to me like the simple words of a Pennsylvania farmer named Stephen Cleghorn. Cleghorn seems by all appearances to be a [...]

Posted in Fracking, Illnesses, Main Tagged Armstrong County, Atlas Energy Resources, Beaver County, Bedford County, Blair County, Bradford County, Butler County, Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Cambria County, Cameron County, Carbon County, Carrizo Oil & Gas Corp., Cattaraugus, Centre County, Chautauqua, Chemung Well * Eerie, Chesapeake Energy, Chief Oil & Gas, Clearfield County, Coyuga, eminent domain * Albany * Allegheny County, Fortuna Energy, Fracking* Marcellus Shale * Allegany Well, Genesee, Livingston Well, MARC 1 pipeline, Nomac Drilling, Ontario, Produced Waters, Radioactive, Schuyler Well, Seneca, Steuben Well, Stone Energy Company, Susquehanna County, Tioga County, Tompkins, Ultra Petroleum Corp., Venango County, Warren County, Washington County, wastewater, Wayne County, Westmoreland County * Marcellus Shale Producers * Anadarko Petroleum, Wyoming, Yates * Radiation * Fracking * Fracking regulation * Fracking moratorium * Fracking ban * Hydrofracking * Hydraulic fracturing * natural gas * gas extraction * methane * greenhouse gas emissions *

May 22

News Round-Up: May 22, 2012

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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:

Oil And Gas Link To Texas Earthquakes Studied

BP Gulf Spill: A Coverup Within a Coverup (VIDEO)

Fukushima Disaster Signals Decline of Nuclear Power

May 21

News Round-Up: May 21, 2012

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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:

Halt Gas Plans for Risk Test

A Political Debate Plays Out Among Louisiana Oil Rigs

Fukushima Daiichi’s Unit 4 Spent-Fuel Pool: Safe or Not?

May 21

Louisiana Isn’t Protecting Its Residents From Hazardous Chemical Spills, So It’s Time For Feds To Step In

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Louisiana has richly deserved its nickname, “Sportsman’s Paradise.” At its best, the state’s bayous, teeming with wildlife, and the once-bountiful marine environment of the Gulf of Mexico truly have made the state a natural treasure. But Louisiana is also a state of contradiction. The landscape here is also dotted with a higher concentration of oil facilities and chemical plants than just about anywhere in the world. And so it’s a [...]

Posted in Main, Regulation, Safety Tagged acoustic testing, alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Ursa, well blowout

May 18

Birds of Prey: White Pelicans in Minnesota Are Contaminated By Oil, Corexit from BP Disaster

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Last week, many people were pained to see — for the first time –photographs by government experts showing dead, oiled sea turtles taken in the weeks immediately after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. It was not surprising that federal officials kept these photos, which also showed sperm whales swimming through an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, under wraps for so long. The ongoing tragedy of oil-covered endangered turtles [...]

Posted in Main, Oil Spill Facts, Uncategorized, Wildlife Tagged alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP arrest, BP Claim, BP criminal charges, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, CEO Jeffery Hildebrand, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Commission for a Sustainable London, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Erath, Erath Oil and Gas Field, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Greenest Games Ever, Greenwash Gold 2012, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Hilcorp Energy, International Olympic Committee, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, Kurt Mix, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Liskow & Lewis, London 2012, London Organizing Committee, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Mars, Nalco, Neil Abramson, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans noise, noise ordinance, noise pollution, North Anna, North Slope, Nuclear Radioactive, Obama Speech, Oil Spill Compensation, Oil Spill Facts, Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Lawsuit, oil spill trial, oilfield waste water, oysters, Peru, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Royal Dutch Shell, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, Shell, Shell oil sheen, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, Summer Olympic Games, Tagged acoustic testing, Ursa, well blowout

May 16

Mystery Illness and Mystery Smells: The Neighbors of America’s Fracking Boom Need Answers

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Kay Allen is a nurse who deserves some answers. She works at a health clinic in Burgettstown, Pa. — in the southwestern corner of the Keystone State where the rolling hills are now pockmarked with fracking wells in a natural-gas gold rush. In one sense, Allen and her co-workers at the Cornerstone Care community clinic are like a lot of health care professionals across the suddenly overwhelmed Marcellus Shale region of Appalachia: [...]

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Summer’s Here, And There’s Something Missing From The Gulf of Mexico

News Round-Up: May 25, 2012

News Round-Up: May 24, 2012

News Round-Up: May 23, 2012

“A New Right of Love”: A Pennsylvania Farmer’s Moving Anti-Fracking Eulogy To His Wife

News Round-Up: May 22, 2012

News Round-Up: May 21, 2012

Louisiana Isn’t Protecting Its Residents From Hazardous Chemical Spills, So It’s Time For Feds To Step In

Birds of Prey: White Pelicans in Minnesota Are Contaminated By Oil, Corexit from BP Disaster

Mystery Illness and Mystery Smells: The Neighbors of America’s Fracking Boom Need Answers

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