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Gulf Coast Residents Show Decline in Emotional Health

Residents along the Gulf Coast experienced a decline in their overall emotional health in the 15 weeks after the onset of the BP oil disaster, according to the Gallup-Healthways Emotional Health Index....

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The BP Gulf Oil Disaster is Far From Over

Special thanks to: Lorrie and Bubba Williams, Cherri Foytlin, Karen Hopkins, Kindra Arnesen, Gregg Hall, NASA, Drew Landry, Drew Wheelan, Denise Rednour, Alycia Daumas, The US Coast Guard, Grand Isle...

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Ken Feinberg: The Go To Guy

He was in charge of the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund, and adjudicated claims of Virginia Tech Massacre victims and those of Agent Orange. Now Ken Feinberg is tasked with sorting out the thousands of...

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Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Beach Looks Clear of Oil

Glynn Wilson The beach and the water off the beach on the Fort Morgan peninsula at the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge appears clear of oil, finally, six months after the BP oil gusher in the Gulf...

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New Audubon Report on the Gulf: There’s Still Oil Out There

“What did the scientists see? They saw birds and they saw oil. And too often, they saw them together.” That’s the bottom line from a new report, “The Risk Remains: A Bird’s Eye View Six Months After...

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Another Report of Deadly Human Flesh-Eating Bacteria in the Gulf

Here’s another strange, terrible twist in the BP Gulf oil disaster. Nah, there’s no problem with going to the beach and swimming in the water on the coast. Oil induced changes to phytoplankton and...

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Local TV News Crew Complains About BP

WKRG.com News In a post under the headline Communicating With BP Nearly Impossible, local television news station WKRG news 5 reports on “Operation Deep Clean.” BP’s answer to cleaning Baldwin County’s...

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Alabama Oil and Gas Lease Sale Delayed Due to ‘Widespread Protest’

by Glynn Wilson After high level talks in Washington, D.C. between environmental legal advocates in consultation with the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land...

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Obama Administration Launches Oil Spill Containment Exercise in Gulf of Mexico

by Glynn Wilson Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, a revamped federal agency initiated by the Obama administration to oversee the oil and gas...

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Pipe Trade Unions Picket Tar Sands Pipeline Company in Mobile

By Glynn Wilson – The United Association union and associated pipe trade locals along the Gulf Coast and in Mobile, Alabama, called a picket on Plains Southcap LLC last week for using out-of-state,...

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