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News Round-Up: September 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:
Faculty Fights Fracking
Sampling Continues at Bayou Corne as Sinkhole Expands
Red Tea Ceremony Raises Awareness for Fukushima

A temporary reprieve from Shell’s risky and reckless Arctic drilling scheme

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For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been consumed with the never-ending fallout from BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. Some 29 months after the explosion that killed 11 people and spewed 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we’ve seen a hurricane toss BP’s oil onto our once pristine beaches all over again. And we’ve also been fighting it out in the legal...

Louisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac

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In recent months, I’ve joined with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and others in calling for the state’s Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to be stripped of its powers and for the federal Environmental Protection Administration, or EPA, to take over. This is not an idea that I toss around lightly. Time and time again, Louisiana’s DEQ has shown that it’s simply...

Now, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR

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You’ve got to say this about British Petroleum — they have some nerve. For more than two years, we’ve been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster — the sick and deformed seafood, the dead zones and the depleted oyster beds, the oiled marshlands and the dying dolphins, and the clean-up workers with crippling health issues. But now...

News Round-Up: September 13, 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:
Anti-Fracking Groups Organize Nationwide Rallies
BP Covered Up Oil, Swept Up Liability Exposed Prompt New Ad Blitz
Nuclear Sector Seeks to Regain Trust After Fukushima

We object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”

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The last couple of weeks have brought a lot of news – both good and bad – down here to the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaac was a double whammy; the storm itself destroyed homes and upended people’s lives, but it also stirred up a ton of BP’s oil. There’s believed to be as much as 1 million barrels of oil still polluting our waters, some 29 months after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. That is...

News Round-Up: September 12, 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:
West Virginia Gas Drilling Opponents Call For Halt To New Development
BP Proposes Deep Cleaning of Louisiana Beaches in Aftermath of Hurricane Isaac
Disaster-Area Kids Under Hard Stress

News Round-Up: September 11, 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 Rally, March to Protest Hydraulic Fracturing
Hurricane Isaac Washed Up Gulf Oil Spill Remnants, Auburn University Researchers Confirm
Shanghai-Fukushima Flights Still in Limbo as China Cancels Meeting With Governor

Louisiana unloads and blows giant hole in BP settlement

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For the last 29 months, I’ve been chronicling the widespread and still-very-much-ongoing fallout from BP’s gross negligence — “a corporate culture of recklessness,” as U.S. government lawyers called it — that killed 11 people and spewed an astronomical 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Currently, BP, arm in arm with the class action lawyers...

News Round-Up: September 5, 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:
Residents Fear Fracking on Former Idora Land
Feds Slam BP in Key Court Filing, Admit Pollution From 2010 Spill Continues to Ravage Gulf
2 Minor Injuries in French Nuclear Plant Incident

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