Proof of 2010 BP coverup shows company and feds can’t be trusted today
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Information, Greenpeace: Dead sperm whale discovered by the NOAA research vessel Pisces on June 15, 2010. This is becoming a somewhat old -- and tragic -- story by...
View ArticleArbitrary and capricious BP settlement needs a do-over
As regular readers know, I have been working on behalf of a long list of everyday residents business owners and citizens of the Gulf region, and I have strongly objected to the terms of the $7.8...
View ArticleUPDATED: The “largest criminal penalty in U.S. history” still isn’t enough to...
UPDATE: The settlement has been announced and there's bad news and good news. The criminal fine -- while on one hand it is indeed the largest in American history, at $4.5 billion -- falls far short of...
View ArticleAfter Black Elk: Rig disasters a byproduct of America’s addiction to oil
Here's a promised update on the oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana on Friday. First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers go out this Thanksgiving week to the loved ones of the two crew...
View ArticleIt’s about time: Feds bar BP from new contracts
I rarely get a chance to say this, but the feds are on a roll when it comes to the matter of BP. Although I've been quite critical over the last two-and-a-half years of the government's response to the...
View ArticleScientists: Efforts to disperse the BP spill made it much, much more toxic
One of the least understood aspects of the environmental devastation caused by the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and spill in 2010 is the role of the chemical dispersant -- known by its brand name...
View ArticleWe’re keeping the pressure on BP to stop spilling more oil into the Gulf
Late last week, we won a big victory in federal court when a judge signed off on a plan that will require BP and its rig partner Transocean to monitor the Deepwater Horizon site and nearby to identify...
View ArticleThe national media notices that BP is leaking fresh oil in the Gulf
Nothing will ever make right BP's negligence that caused the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. But there's been a flurry of recent news that authorities are finally listening to some of our pleas for...
View ArticleGulf doctor: BP settlement won’t help my sick patients
Dr. Michael Robichaux is frustrated. Since the earliest days of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Dr. Robichaux -- based in Mathews, La. -- has done little else besides treating fishermen, cleanup workers...
View Article33 months later, oil persists near the Deepwater Horizon site
In Louisiana, we are blessed to have a one-woman environmental protection agency by the name of Bonny Schumaker. A retired NASA physicist and pilot, Schumaker has found a way to merge her love of all...
View ArticleYet another study questions the use of Corexit
It's looking more and more like the federal government's massive civil suit against BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is actually going to trial -- although you never know what's going to...
View ArticleBP begs for settlement as sharpened sword of justice looms
In a few hours, the government's massive civil case against BP in the Deepwater Horizon spill is finally slated to come to trial. As we noted on the blog last week, it's unusual for a case this large...
View ArticleFeds investigate wrongdoing by lawyer on plaintiff’s committee in BP case
There's a huge twist in the complicated legal fight surrounding BP and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. Federal prosecutors are now investigating one of the lawyers on the powerful Plaintiff's...
View ArticleBP trial showing the world that Big Oil cannot be trusted
Like a lot of you, I've been keeping a close eye on what is happening with the BP civil trial here in New Orleans. As I wrote last week, the airing of what really happened on the Deepwater Horizon rig...
View ArticleBP trial exposing the risks of extreme offshore drilling
The ongoing BP civil trial here in New Orleans continues to expose two things: The human tragedy and sorrow of what happened aboard the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig on that night nearly four years...
View ArticleNew photo evidence that Gulf is drenched in oil, as BP trial drags on
Sometimes it feels like conversations about the Gulf of Mexico -- nearly three years after BP's Deepwater Horizon catastrophe unleashed roughly 5 million barrels of fresh crude -- take place in...
View ArticleSurprise, surprise: New evidence about BP disaster suddenly turns up
At the start of the BP civil trial now underway in New Orleans, I expressed my pleasure that more of the facts of what happened on the Deepwater Horizon rig on, and leading up to, the night of April...
View ArticleThree years after BP spill, the Gulf ecosystem is still collapsing
If you're a regular reader of the blog, it will come as no surprise to you that the ecological health of the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill is considerally worse...
View Article3-year-anniversary bombshell: Whistleblower says BP covered up health risks...
Today is the three-year-anniversary of the event that changed life for so many of us here on the Gulf of Mexico: The explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig off Louisiana, which killed 11 people and...
View ArticleHow 25 whistleblowers blew the lid off BP’s Corexit scandal
It's hard to keep secret. But it's really hard to keep a secret when hundreds, if not thousands, of American citizens have been sickened from exposure to a highly toxic chemical -- even when it's one...
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