According to a plan approved by the Coast Guard and obtained by the Associated Press, BP will no longer be responsible for the cleanup of any oil washing up on Gulf of Mexico shores, unless officials can prove it came from the BP well that blew out in 2010,The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force yesterday released its comprehensive preliminary strategy for long-term restoration. The strategy, which will be presented to President Obama at the end of a period of public review and feedback, aims to address long-standing issues contributing to the decline of the gulf ecosystem.
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Sightings of a very large sheen of oil in the Gulf of Mexico have had coastal residents and fishermen worried for over a month. But in a statement issued yesterday, the Coast Guard says the sheen is not from BP’s now-capped Macondo well, which caused harm to both Florida’s
Though the mainstream media has left the story alone, reports of a new slick of oil spotted about 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, near British Petroleum’s Maconda well, have many concerned.
The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team (JIT), comprised of representatives from the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, today released Volume I (PDF) of its exhaustively titled “Report of Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Explosion, Fire, Sinking and Loss of Eleven Crew More…
President Obama’s May directive to triple the number of people working to stop the Gulf oil spill may have actually hindered the government’s response. The Coast Guard, in the days after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion, kept track of the government’s response to the spill on a “simple Microsoft More…
Responding to polls that suggested the American people believed the federal government was not adequately responding to the oil spill, President Obama announced in May that he would triple oil spill response resources. That decision, a draft report from the national oil spill commission says, may have actually hindered More…
A draft report released today by the national oil spill commission provides new details on a much-criticized August assessment by the Obama administration of the “fate of oil” from the Gulf oil spill. While much of the information in today’s report has already come out in press accounts, the More…
The national oil spill commission released today four reports written by commission staff assessing the government’s response to the Gulf oil spill. The reports offer a detailed look at the oil spill from a number of angles, including the use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil that More…
Though much attention has been paid to yesterday’s national oil spill commission meeting in Washington (I wrote about it here), there’s another oil spill meeting taking place in Houston, Tx., that is just as important.
The Interior Department and the Coast Guard are holding hearings this week on the More…
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