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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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Apr 20

A Taste of the Grotesque in the Gulf: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Lesion-Covered Fish

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Nearly two years on from the worst oil spill in U.S. history, seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico looks like it belongs in a shop of horrors rather than an all-you-can-eat buffet. Severely deformed shrimp with bulging tumors – and no eyes. Red snapper and grouper riddled with deep lesions and oozing sores. Eyeless, clawless blue crabs. So goes the parade of the “seafood grotesque” in the Gulf [...]

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Apr 11

Oil and Gas Industry Scrambles to Deny Louisiana Landowners Money to Cleanup Contamination

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Forces are gathering in Louisiana. On one side are oil companies and their boosters in the state government. On the other side are landowners with property long contaminated by toxic oil sludge – an insidious industrial witch’s brew of dangerous chemicals from lead to benzene to radioactive radium-226. Landowners, who leased their private property to oil producers, are now suing those companies for contaminating their land. In all too predictable [...]

Posted in Business, Illnesses, Legal, Main, Radiation, 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, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Nalco, 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, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, well blowout

Apr 06

Oil Companies Blamed for More Than 3,000 Dead Dolphins in Peru

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Dead dolphins are washing ashore by the hundreds on a stretch of coastline less than 100 miles long in Peru. The corpses are stacking up so quickly that removal and disposal efforts are overwhelming local authorities. Commercial fishermen estimate that more than 3,000 dead dolphins have washed up on the beaches here over the last three months, nearly 500 in recent days. It is one of the largest dolphin die-offs [...]

Posted in Illnesses, Investigations, Main, Ocean Life, Research, Safety, Testing 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, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, coral, Corexit, crabs, dead coral, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Macondo Well, marine bubble, Nalco, 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, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, well blowout

Mar 28

New Oil Spill Study: Gulf Bottlenose Dolphins Are Underweight, Anemic and Show Signs of Liver and Lung Disease

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In the wake of the BP oil spill, hundreds of dead bottlenose dolphins – some visibly oiled – washed up on Gulf Coast beaches at a rate nearly 10 times the norm. Many more died at sea. Dozens were stranded alive, severely ill and disoriented. During the summer of 2011, NOAA conducted “comprehensive physicals” on 32 live dolphins to determine the “post-spill health” of the mammals in Barataria Bay, one [...]

Posted in Causes, Illnesses, Main, Ocean Life, Recovery, Research, Spill Damages, Testing Tagged alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, Corexit, crabs, dead dolphins, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, dolphins, Dominion, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, gulf dolphins, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, legacy lawsuits, Legal, Macondo Well, Nalco, 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, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, radioactive contamination, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, well blowout

Mar 17

BP Resource Manual Directly Contradicts Official Company Assurances that Corexit Posed No Health Risk

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As oil gushed from the Macondo Well in the spring of 2010, BP officials calmly assured tens of thousands of wary cleanup workers that the chemical dispersant Corexit posed no more of a health risk than Dawn dish detergent. Now, with many of the 90,000 workers suffering from a range of debilitating symptoms associated with chemical poisoning, a whistleblower has provided the federal government with a bombshell piece of evidence [...]

Posted in Business, Claims, Cleanup Efforts, Illnesses, Legal, Main, Response, Safety, Spill Damages, Testing, Victim Claims Tagged alligators, Barbier, bayou, Beach cleanup, Blog, Bourbon Street, BP Claim, BP Lawsuit, BP Oil Spill, BP Settlement, BP tourism funds, BP trial, China oil spill, Claims, Cleanup efforts, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, Corexit, crabs, Deepwater Horizon, Dispersant, Dominion, Feinberg, Fish, French Quarter noise, From Stuart Smith, Fukushima, Gulf beaches, Gulf Fisheries, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills, Gulf Spill, Japan, Jobs Speech, Judge Barbier, Legal, Macondo Well, Nalco, 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, oysters, Politics, Politics Oil Spill Gulf, Polluters, Pollution, Radiation, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Oil Spill Gulf, Radioactive Material, Recovery, Repsol, Response, Safety, Scientists pressured, Seafood, seafood industry, shrimp, Spanish moss, Spill Damages, Stuart Smith, well blowout

Mar 05

Help on the Way? BP Reaches $7.8 Billion Settlement with Thousands of Private Plaintiffs

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Although the start of the “trial of the century” has been further delayed, relief for individuals and businesses damaged by the BP oil spill may be delivered in relatively short order. According to a statement issued by New Orleans District Court Judge Carl Barbier late Friday night, BP and attorneys representing spill victims “reached an agreement on the terms of a proposed class settlement.” The federal judge also announced that [...]

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Feb 27

Epic Oil Spill Trial Delayed: Talks “Progressing” Toward Huge Settlement Between BP and Plaintiffs

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The “trial of the century” was supposed to begin today. New Orleans District Court Judge Carl Barbier was scheduled to hear nearly seven hours of opening arguments as the kickoff to a trial that is, by all measures, epic – unrivaled in scope, legal intricacy and potential damages. The three-phase, non-jury trial was designed to allocate blame in the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, determine pollution fines and potentially [...]

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Feb 21

J&J Continued to Sell Defective Hip Implant After FDA Issued “Nonapproval”

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Based on internal safety studies, Johnson & Johnson’s hip replacement device wasn’t safe. The “all-metal hip socket cup” design – initially thought to be revolutionary – was faulty, and the implants were failing prematurely at a high rate in patients around the world. The FDA rejected the defective model, known in the medical field as an “articular surface replacement” (ASR) device, for sale in the United States. Yet J&J’s orthopedic [...]

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Feb 09

When the Party Gets Too Loud: New Orleans Residents Wither Under Noise Pollution

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The French Quarter in New Orleans is the heart and soul of the southern party scene. All the essential ingredients are here, in abundance: great drinks, even better food, revelers of every stripe and music – live, loud music deep into the night. From Jazz Fest to Mardi Gras and all the gumbo and crawfish festivals in between, the French Quarter knows how to throw a party. Although the Quarter [...]

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Category Archives: Illnesses

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

A Taste of the Grotesque in the Gulf: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Lesion-Covered Fish

Oil and Gas Industry Scrambles to Deny Louisiana Landowners Money to Cleanup Contamination

Oil Companies Blamed for More Than 3,000 Dead Dolphins in Peru

New Oil Spill Study: Gulf Bottlenose Dolphins Are Underweight, Anemic and Show Signs of Liver and Lung Disease

BP Resource Manual Directly Contradicts Official Company Assurances that Corexit Posed No Health Risk

Help on the Way? BP Reaches $7.8 Billion Settlement with Thousands of Private Plaintiffs

Epic Oil Spill Trial Delayed: Talks “Progressing” Toward Huge Settlement Between BP and Plaintiffs

J&J Continued to Sell Defective Hip Implant After FDA Issued “Nonapproval”

When the Party Gets Too Loud: New Orleans Residents Wither Under Noise Pollution

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