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In-Depth: The Gulf Is Still Sick

In BP Spill, Commentary, Important Articles, Investigations, Oil Spill Facts, Recovery, Restoration, Spill Damages
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On April 15, 2014, with the fourth anniversary of the massive Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just days away, British Petroleum – the rig’s operator — issued a press release that caught many people off-guard. BP announced that its “active cleanup” of oil pollution in the Gulf had officially ended. The statement by the British energy giant did not say that...

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4 takeaways from a grim 4th anniversary of the BP spill

In BP Spill, Commentary, Human Interest, Illnesses, Important Articles, Main, Ocean Life, Oil Spill Facts, Regulation, Response, Spill Damages
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Over this Easter weekend, I had a chance to absorb quite a bit of coverage of what’s happened in the Gulf of Mexico in the four years since BP’s massive Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. I had a couple of thoughts. One was that with the passage of time, the news coverage of the BP anniversary has actually seemed to increase over last year. It’s good that the news media —...

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Stuart H. Smith is an attorney based in New Orleans fighting major oil companies and other polluters.
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