“Keystone Kops”: Major pipeline spills raise serious questions about safety...
For a lot of American environmentalists, the Keystone XL pipeline project was a major wakeup call about the rising, out-of-control power of Big Oil in this country, stretching all the way to the...
View ArticleMore BP fallout: Will the baby birds ever come back to Cat Island?
There was a story a couple of weeks agoabout the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill that got a fair amount of attention, including on this blog. A researcher had discovered that the oil slick from the...
View ArticleNew report sheds light on an alarming trend: Government muzzling scientists
It's getting harder and harder to be a scientist in America these days -- especially if you work for, or work with the federal government, or if you cross one of the favored companies of our political...
View Article“The Gulf’s best tourism season in years” soaks an Alabama family in tarballs
At this point, it's probably beating a dead horse to make fun of those omnipresent ads for BP promoting tourism along the Gulf of Mexico -- the ones that call it "the Gulf’s best tourism season in...
View ArticleThe problem is that the Gulf was already under attack even before BP added 5...
There's one thing that's very important to remember when we talk about the Gulf of Mexico and the aftermath of the BP oil disaster. Which is this: That it's not as if everything was all hunky-dory in...
View ArticlePollution fighters catch ExxonMobil in a Baton Rouge big lie
This is a bad news/good news post about a major threat to public health that most folks outside of Louisiana don't know about, and how a hearty band of citizens was able to get results in the face of a...
View ArticleDay of the dolphin: BP spill played key role in die-off
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: The Gulf was under enormous environmental pressures before April 20, 2011, the date that the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up and killed 11 workers and then...
View ArticleOlympics sponsor BP wins both a gold and a silver in environmental recklessness
As a lifelong resident of the Gulf, I've already expressed my outrage and dismay at learning that BP -- yes, that BP, British Petroleum, spiller of roughly 5 million barrels of oil into one of the...
View Article“Something really disastrous happening in the Gulf”: Research proves BP’s...
There's an old saying in legal circles that the cover-up is always much worse than the initial crime. It's hard to say if that is exactly true with the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico...
View ArticleFrom New York to New Orleans, noise pollution terrorizes the public
Shhhhhh. Can you hear me? We need to talk again. A couple of times since I started this blog, I've told you about another environmental battle that I've been waging in my hometown for a long time -- a...
View ArticleLouisiana covers up risk to Bayou town from sinkhole, massive methane leak
Here we go again. Once again, a corner of Louisiana is under an environmental assault, threatening both the health and the immediate safety of local residents. Once again, the cause appears to be the...
View ArticleIf another major pipeline spill doesn’t convince them to kill Keystone XL,...
When will America ever learn? Industry and some government officials -- helped sometimes by mixed signals from the Obama administration -- continue to push for the Keystone XL pipeline to run across...
View ArticleIncompetent Louisiana regulators knew of risk at sinkhole site since early 2011
It's hard to know which is the worst thing about the ongoing environmental nightmare in the southeastern Louisiana community of Bayou Corne, where a massive sinkhole has forced an evacuation after...
View ArticleDisappearing La. speckled trout another blow to BP’s Big Lie
You can add speckled trout to the list. Over the last several months, I've told you about all kinds of reports about serious problems to both the safety and available of Gulf seafood. Eyeless shrimp....
View ArticleUPDATE: Sinkhole crisis worsens, 2 workers rescued, town braces for possible...
The nightmare in Bayou Corne -- the besieged small town in southeastern Louisiana coping with the effects of a massive sinkhole, compounded by the incompetence of state bureaucrats -- keeps getting...
View ArticleThreat to Bayou Corne grows as tests show elevated levels of radium, butane...
Elevated levels of radium in the water and tests showing airborne indicators of butane -- the highly explosive fuel stored in a nearby cavern -- are two alarming signs that the environmental...
View ArticleUpdate: Expert says Louisiana officials “in denial” over radium risk at sinkhole
A veteran radiation expert says Louisiana environmental officials are "in denial" over the hazard posed by elevated radium levels discovered in the slurry liquids of the massive sinkhole that has...
View ArticleIsaac likely to bring grim, oily reminders of 2010 BP spill to Gulf coastline
Tropical Storm Isaac is bearing down on the Louisiana coast and is likely to become a hurricane later today, before making landfall somewhere close to New Orleans. This is not good news for either my...
View ArticleBP cleanup crews spotted as Isaac stirs up oil, bad memories
For residents of the battered Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac didn't just bring sheets of rain, pummeling winds, and a powerful storm surge. The slow moving, deceptively destructive Category 1 hurricane...
View ArticleBombshell: Feds slam BP in key court filing, admit pollution from 2010 spill...
In a bombshell federal court filing, U.S. government lawyers are slamming British Petroleum for making false and misleading statements that seek to both dodge blame for 2010's Deepwater Horizon...
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