Follow up to previous posting, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Undertakes Major Sea Turtle Egg Evacuations In Response to Spill, this New York Times Magazine article, The BP-Spill Baby-Turtle Brigade: “The hatchlings from this seasons first nests, however, were on schedule to scramble into the Gulf of Mexico only a few months after the explosion… Continue Reading
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Oregon State University researchers: 40-Fold Increase In Levels of Known Carcinogens in Gulf
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this new research: “Although the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill was halted in mid-July, researchers continue to find elevated concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, in some areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Some of these chemicals are known carcinogens… Continue Reading
BP Releases Report on Causes of Gulf of Mexico Tragedy
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, see this news – BP Releases Report on Causes of Gulf of Mexico Tragedy: “No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy. Rather, a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties led to the explosion and fire which killed 11 people and… Continue Reading
Outer Continental Shelf Safety Oversight Board Report to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
News release: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that a team led by senior officials in the Department of the Interior, including Interiors Inspector General, have completed a review of offshore oil and gas oversight and regulation and have delivered a set of recommendations that reinforce and expand on ongoing reforms being carried… Continue Reading
New Report Warns of Expanding Threat of Hypoxia in U. S. Coastal Waters
News release: “A report issued today by key environmental and scientific federal agencies assesses the increasing prevalence of low-oxygen dead zones in U.S. coastal waters and outlines a series of research and policy steps that could help reverse the decades-long trend. The interagency report notes that incidents of hypoxiaa condition in which oxygen levels drop… Continue Reading
Committee Releases Details on BP's Advertising Expenditures Related to the Gulf Oil Spill
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak released information from BP regarding its spending on corporate advertising and marketing following the April 20, 2010, explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. At the suggestion of Representative Kathy Castor, on… Continue Reading
Woods Hole Scientists Map and Confirm Origin of Large, Underwater Hydrocarbon Plume in Gulf
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, news that “scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.… Continue Reading
Release of Government Figures on Rate of Oil Spill Generates Controversy
NOAA: “The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed much of which is in the process of being degraded. A significant amount of this is the direct result of the robust federal response efforts. A third (33 percent) of… Continue Reading
New Estimates Confirm BP Oil Spill As Largest Marine Accident on Record
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, from the New York Times: The BP spill is by far the worlds largest accidental release of oil into marine waters, according to the most precise estimates yet of the wells flow rate, announced by federal scientists on Monday. Nearly five million barrels of oil… Continue Reading
Executive Order – Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes
Executive Order, July 19, 2010: “Section 1. Purpose. The ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes provide jobs, food, energy resources, ecological services, recreation, and tourism opportunities, and play critical roles in our Nation’s transportation, economy, and trade, as well as the global mobility of our Armed Forces and the maintenance of international peace and… Continue Reading
NOAA's Joint Analysis Group Releases First Scientific Report on Subsea Monitoring data from Gulf Spill
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today released the first peer reviewed, analytical summary report about the subsea monitoring in the vicinity of the… Continue Reading
Three engineering studies support MMS knowledge of critical flaws on oil rig
CSM: “Government regulators have said that the failure of the Deepwater Horizon’s blowout preventer April 20 was unforeseeable. But studies conducted for federal regulators in MMS or with their participation show that blowout preventers were known to have ‘safety critical’ vulnerabilities. The federal agency charged with setting safety standards for offshore oil exploration failed to… Continue Reading
