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Mississippi – Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill NRDA trustees invite public comment...
LONG BEACH, Mississippi --The Deepwater Horizon oil spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees will host a meeting Tuesday at the University of Southern Mississippi campus in Long Beach, seeking...
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Washington – Ecology publishes updated Grays Harbor oil-spill response plan
OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and U.S. Coast Guard published an updated Grays Harbor Geographic Response Plan this week to improve site-specific, oil-spill response...
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Louisiana – Appeals Court Blesses BP Spill Settlement but the Legal Battle...
On a 2-1 vote, a three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a trial judge’s earlier approval of a settlement originally valued at $7.8 billion and designed to pay...
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Alabama – Gulf Coast residents not showing higher chemical exposure post-BP...
Gulf Coast residents in areas affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill don't appear to have higher chemical exposure than others across the nation, the head of the National Institute of...
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Thailand – Environmental study of eastern seaboard planned
Leading Thai environmental groups will conduct a study on ecological issues along coastal areas to help industries control environmental compliance costs and protect marine ecosystems. The Association...
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Louisiana – Facing billions of dollars in coastal erosion lawsuits, oil...
HOUMA, La. — One of the state's main oil and gas lobby groups asked industry members in Houma Tuesday to help start a campaign to slow down and fend off lawsuits from landowners seeking damages for oil...
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Louisiana – Oil spill closes Port of New Orleans, 65-mile stretch of Mississippi
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard said the source of an oil spill was secured but 65 miles of the Mississippi River including the Port of New Orleans remained closed Sunday. The Coast...
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Alaska – Why The Exxon Valdez Spill Was A Eureka Moment For Science
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. At the time, it was the single biggest spill...
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Florida – DEP MAKES IMPROVEMENTS TO DEEPWATER HORIZON RESTORATION SITE
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has improved the navigation for users of the Deepwater Horizon restoration website, Read more..
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Florida – Four years after BP disaster, erosion quickens along Gulf shore
MYRTLE GROVE — The boats that pulled up to a shoreline in Bay Jimmy on Thursday morning were still in water, but the GPS showed them traveling over dry land. Not too long ago, that land actually...
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Texas – Texas A&M’s TABS Buoy System: Protecting the gulf at bargain-basement...
COLLEGE STATION – When it comes to state spending and success rates, cost savings, and overall bang-for-your-buck bottom lines, it’s hard to beat Texas A&M University’s TABS buoy system that relays...
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BP – Resilient signs of recovery along Gulf
As we mark four years since the Deepwater Horizon accident, memories of that day, the tragic loss of 11 lives, and the difficult time that followed remain vivid for BP and many along the Gulf Coast....
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Louisiana – Louisiana Wants the Oil and Gas Industry to Pay to Restore Its Coast
Every two weeks, a swath of Louisiana the size of this city's French Quarter vanishes into the Gulf of Mexico. Since the 1930s, the state has lost nearly 1,900 square miles, a quarter of its coastal...
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Texas – Galveston Bay oil spill cost assessment could take years
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Federal and state agencies have started looking at natural resource damage in an effort to come up with a dollar estimate from a March barge and cargo ship collision in the...
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UAE – How satellites could help to contain oil spills in the Arabian Gulf
There’s a lot of oil in the Arabian Gulf. Not only is about a quarter of the world’s oil produced by countries surrounding our backyard body of water, it also has about 800 offshore oil and gas...
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Louisiana – Crushing oyster harvest in Gulf devastating fishermen as science...
Stanley Encalade, 54, an out-of-work oysterman doing odd jobs on boats along highway 300 running through what’s formerly some of the world’s most fertile oyster territory in this state’s St. Bernard...
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Louisiana – Gulf of Mexico oil spill could haunt BP for years to come
Investors tend to dislike uncertainty, but for BP’s shareholders, the last four and a half years of limbo are starting to look like the easy part. On Thursday afternoon, the oil giant was found guilty...
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New Jersey – NJIT researchers working to safeguard the shoreline
NJIT researchers working to safeguard the shoreline An NJIT research team has estimated the total mass of oil that reached the Gulf of Mexico shore in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout. It's...
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Florida – Viewpoint: The whole story: Concrete facts on the Gulf’s recovery
Florida Wildlife Federation Vice President Preston Robertson's recent Viewpoint "When is BP going to do the right thing?" (Sept. 20), ignores key facts about BP's response to the Deepwater Horizon...
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Florida – State hosts webinar on oil spill restoration projects
The public is invited to join a webinar next week focusing on projects the state wants to submit for oil spill fine money. Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Florida Fish and Wildlife...
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