The last surviving otter from the Exxon Valdez oil spill has died
When a female sea otter named Homer was born near the cool, clean waters along Alaska's Prince William Sound, her life must have seemed destined to play out much as it had for countless generations...
View ArticleHouse ties Gulf oil treaty to weakening of disclosure rule
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives advanced two items on the oil industry's wish list Thursday, passing legislation that would unleash drilling in the Western Gap area of the Gulf of Mexico and...
View ArticleEarthjustice on President Obama’s Climate Change Address at Georgetown...
(Source: Earthjustice) President Obama's speech today at Georgetown University laid out his plan to address climate change. This is welcome news, especially for Americans who have been working for...
View ArticleStatement of Governor McDonnell on Passage of the Offshore Energy and Jobs...
(Source: State of Virginia) For Immediate Release Contact June 28, 2013 Paul Shanks Office of the Governor (804) 225-4262 Statement of Governor McDonnell on Passage of the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act...
View ArticleHouse set to unleash drilling on US-Mexico maritime border
Posted on June 27, 2013 at 12:01 pm by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in General, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore, Politics/Policy Comments() | E-mail | Print An aerial view of the Ensco 8502 drilling rig in the Gulf of...
View ArticleU.S. House Backs Bill to Expand Coastal Oil, Gas Drilling
Oil and gas exploration off U.S. coasts would be expanded under legislation the U.S. House of Representatives passed over the threat of a presidential veto. The vote on the bill, H.R. 2231, was...
View ArticleHouse aims to unleash drilling on US-Mexico maritime border
Posted on June 27, 2013 at 12:01 pm by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in General, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore, Politics/Policy Comments() | E-mail | Print An aerial view of the Ensco 8502 drilling rig in the Gulf of...
View ArticleOil work to go on in Alaska's Arctic waters, without drilling
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 28 (Reuters) - No one will drill in Arctic waters off Alaska this year, but there is still plenty of offshore work for the oil industry to do when conditions finally allow it...
View ArticleBP Settlement Dispute Challenges Payouts Following Gulf Oil Spill
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With an ad blitz and a tersely worded letter, BP is mounting an increasingly aggressive campaign to challenge what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses...
View ArticleOil drilling off Santa Barbara coast? House Republicans say yes
WASHINGTON -- In spite of a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House on Friday launched a new effort to open up the California and Atlantic coasts to oil drilling. The measure is a...
View ArticleU.S. House "tone deaf" regarding Obama's climate change plan (The Wilderness...
(Source: The Wilderness Society) Three days after President Obama outlined a plan to reduce carbon emissions and to prepare the nation for some of the damaging effects of climate change, the U.S....
View ArticleHouse moving to expand offshore drilling
Posted on June 28, 2013 at 10:10 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Offshore, Politics/Policy Comments() | E-mail | Print BP's Thunder Horse semi-submersible facility in the Gulf of Mexico, about 150 miles...
View ArticleHouse of Representatives Passes Bill Leaving Coasts Vulnerable to Oil Spill...
(Source: Earthjustice) Washington, D.C. - By a vote of 235-186 the House of Representatives passed an offshore drilling bill that aims to increase oil production in the Outer Continental Shelf,...
View ArticleSunday on the Gulf: Terrebonne Bay impacted by BP oil spill
Tweet 0 Email Report Photo 1 of 20 Contract workers attend a meeting in Terrebone Bay near Cocodrie, La. where oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has entered the bay Sunday, July 11, 2010. The...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Assessing Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the...
(Source: National Academy of Sciences) Assessing Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico Disruptions to ecosystems could impair services such as energy, tourism, and fisheries,...
View ArticleAnadarko to face investor suit over BP spill, judge says
Posted on July 16, 2013 at 6:12 am by Bloomberg in Gulf of Mexico, Gulf oil spill, Legal issues Comments() | E-mail | Print Anadarko Petroleum Corp., a partner in the BP (BP/) Plc well that blew up in...
View ArticleEnvironmental bombs in sea
AHMEDABAD: The flora and fauna of the fragile ecosystem of Gujarat particularly that of the Marine National Park in the Gulf of Kutch are staring at an environmental disaster. At least nine huge...
View ArticleNJIT Professor Collaborated On New Federal Report on Deepwater Horizon Oil...
(Source: NJIT - New Jersey Institute of Technology) NJIT Professor Michel Boufadel, is a co-author of a new expert report on the effects of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Mississippi Canyon-252 oil spill...
View ArticleConservation Groups: USDA Plan to Preserve the Tongass is Welcome Step in...
(Source: Earthjustice) Washington, D.C. - USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack's proposal to transition away from old-growth logging in the Tongass National Forest is a welcome shift that has the potential to...
View ArticleThree More Charged in Scheme to Defraud BP Oil Spill Claims Fund (FBI -...
(Source: FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation) BIRMINGHAM-Federal prosecutors this week charged three more people as part of a conspiracy to fraudulently take money from funds established to pay...
View Article