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Apr 23

Editorial Correction: Closure of Gulf Waters to Shrimping Is Routine

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CORRECTION: On April 21, ABC affiliate WEAR-TV, which covers Pensacola, Moblie and Fort Walton, reported on its website that some areas of the Gulf were being closed on the morning of April 23 due to concerns over the presence of smaller-than-normal shrimp and shrimp with “lesions.” That report was in line with a multitude of other recent mainstream media reports – from the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others (see [...]

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Apr 17

Not-So-Fine Print: Louisiana’s Largest Oil Producer Tramples on Contractual Obligation to Clean up Toxic Waste

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The Louisiana legislature will consider a flurry of industry-backed bills in the coming weeks – all of which aim to inhibit the right of property owners to sue oil companies for failing to clean up a “legacy” of land contamination left behind from decades of hazardous production operations. As the legislative battle surrounding “legacy lawsuits” comes to a head and our elected officials must choose between supporting the contractual rights [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Apr 03

More from Macondo? Fresh, Highly Toxic BP Oil Rolls Ashore in Alabama’s “Seafood Capital”

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All the slick BP tourism ads and fat research grants and indignant denials in the world can’t change one crushing reality for the Gulf Coast: There’s still fresh, highly toxic oil from the Macondo reservoir fouling our waters and shoreline. The “old-world” fishing community of Bayou La Batre, once hailed as the “Seafood Capital of Alabama,” has been dealing with that painful reality for nearly 24 months. Many commercial fishermen [...]

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Mar 27

Paying the Piper: Decades of Rampant Land Contamination Come Back to Haunt Louisiana Oil Companies

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For decades, oil companies in Louisiana – the backbone of the Gulf Coast’s oldest and wealthiest industry – indiscriminately and with impunity contaminated private property with highly toxic chemicals ranging from lead to benzene to radioactive radium-226. Landowners are now suing the responsible companies, in a breed of cases called “legacy lawsuits,” for environmental damage that presents grave health risks and destroys the value of the property. These are lawsuits [...]

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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 [...]

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Feb 23

Will Feds Offer BP a Sweetheart Settlement?

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BP Chief Executive Robert Dudley says his company is ready to settle with the U.S. government for its role in the worst oil spill in our nation’s history – as long as the terms are “fair and reasonable.” Really? BP demanding fairness and reason is like a drunken sailor demanding piety and abstinence. But I’ll take a deep breath and save my railing for another day. Clearly, these are relative [...]

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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 16

Oil Company’s “Aggressive” Exploration Program Suffers Well Blowout on Alaska’s North Slope

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The Spanish oil company, Repsol, had an exploratory well blowout Wednesday morning on Alaska’s remote North Slope, spewing natural gas into the frigid Arctic air for several hours and blasting more than 40,000 gallons of toxic drilling mud out through a diverter pipe. The good news is none of the 76 workers were injured. The bad news is it was a well blowout (not to overlook the obvious), and it [...]

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Category Archives: Safety

Editorial Correction: Closure of Gulf Waters to Shrimping Is Routine

Not-So-Fine Print: Louisiana’s Largest Oil Producer Tramples on Contractual Obligation to Clean up Toxic Waste

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

More from Macondo? Fresh, Highly Toxic BP Oil Rolls Ashore in Alabama’s “Seafood Capital”

Paying the Piper: Decades of Rampant Land Contamination Come Back to Haunt Louisiana Oil Companies

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

Will Feds Offer BP a Sweetheart Settlement?

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

Oil Company’s “Aggressive” Exploration Program Suffers Well Blowout on Alaska’s North Slope

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