The definitive story from environmental journalism icon and Pulitzer Award-winner Mark Schliefstein:
“A massive, 22-mile-long underwater plume of oil droplets flowed to the southwest of the BP’s failed Macondo well at the end of June, and the threat it poses to natural resources of the Gulf of Mexico remains uncertain, scientists who mapped the plume said [...]
Denise Robinette, owner of Healthy Living Interiors, designed this room and is helping me with the green renovation of my little cottage! Kudos, Denise!
“Merkiyah Jones can now breathe easier thanks to a Healthy-N-Green Bedroom Makeover.Jones, a fourth-grader at Watkins Elementary School in West Park, was treated to the makeover after she won the Asthma Awareness [...]
Our friends Seth Keller and Mark van Soestbergen have developed a great greenhouse gas accounting course here in Gainesville and they’re taking it to Atlanta next week. Please pass the word to anyone you think might be interested in learning about this:
Carbon Footprint and Greenhouse Strategies Seminar: August 26
Participants will learn how [...]
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill still poses threats to human health and seafood safety, according to a study published Monday by the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association.
Federal officials disputed the new report and said ongoing testing is aggressive and sufficient to protect public health.
In the short term, study co-author Gina Solomon voiced [...]
It’s time to put the focus on health and safety instead of just profits:
“The Minerals Management Service has been ridiculed as a pawn of the oil industry it was meant to oversee, and the Gulf Coast office has drawn particular scorn.
The causes of the spill remain unclear, but a number of the agency’s [...]
The United Nations has added Florida's Everglades National Park and rain forests in Madagascar to its list of World Heritage sites in danger.
Being on the danger list allows the agency to allocate immediate assistance from the World Heritage Fund.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/30/2118315/everglades-madagascar-rain-forest.html#ixzz0vMQCgEfD
via Everglades, Madagascar rain forest on UNESCO list – KansasCity.com.
In Memory of
WESLEY C. SKILES
Memorial Celebration and Service Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at Ginnie Springs
The memorial service will begin at 6:00 pm followed by a celebration of Wes’s life. Ginnie Springs will be open to our guests all afternoon. The celebration will last into the evening. You may want to bring the beverage of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is issuing a new moratorium on deep-water offshore drilling and it's no longer based on water depth.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made the announcement Monday, arguing that a pause is still needed to ensure that oil and gas companies implement safety measures to reduce risks – and are prepared to [...]
PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) — Kevin Costner's company has sent an oil-skimming vessel to help clean some of the crude that has fouled the Gulf of Mexico.
The actor told workers and visitors Thursday who had come to see the latest in the fight against the oil spill that “the machine I once dreamed of is [...]
A month ago, National Incident Commander Thad Allen issued an order granting the media “uninhibited access” to the areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was routinely and often brazenly ignored.
Thirty days later, it should be said that the order essentially has no real-world meaning at all. Here's Daniel Tencer at Raw Story:
via [...]
William Rea, MD, who founded the Environmental Health Center-Dallas, treated a number of sick Exxon Valdez cleanup workers. He once told me, “When you have sick people and sick animals, and they are sick because of the same chemical, that’s the strongest evidence possible that that chemical is a problem.”
It’s not just skin rashes and [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA has used computer models to estimate the potential threats to U.S. coastlines that might result if oil spilling from the Deepwater Horizon site continues until a relief well successfully stops the flow.
Much of the west coast of Florida has a low probability (1%–20%) for impact, but the [...]
Federal officials Friday scrambled to get ready for the possibility that a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico could shut down containment operations at BP's leaking oil well for two weeks.
via Nation & World | Gulf braces for storm, halt to oil containment | Seattle Times Newspaper.
100 or so people joined hands with citizens in 901 cities around the world to strengthen support for Clean Energy….Here’s Teddi and me with our friends at Cedar Key, Florida.
Follow the story at www.handsacrossthesand.com
The first tropical depression of the Atlantic 2010 hurricane season has formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico, but it is unclear if it will pass over the massive oil spill in the Gulf.
The storm is expected to become better organized, meteorologist Marie Trabert with the National Weather Service in Jacksonville said Friday.
“There is an [...]
More than two months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Pensacola awoke Wednesday to the largest onslaught of black crude on Florida’s coast, as more than nine miles of white shoreline and beaches were soaked with syrupy oil.
A health advisory has been issued by Escambia County for parts of Pensacola Beach and Fort Pickens.
“It’s pretty ugly. [...]
By Roger Witherspoon
“Federal regulators have fined Florida Power & Light $70,000 for improperly maintaining hundreds of tons of highly radioactive spent fuel at their Turkey Point 3 power plant near Homestead, in violation of their operating license.
This is the second nuclear facility owned by FP&L to come under NRC fire in two months. In [...]
By Roger Witherspoon
The unfolding events in the Gulf of Mexico underscore the importance of journalists not falling for the industrial mantra that catastrophic events can’t happen today because of “robust” safety systems and “built in redundancy” that ensure environmentally safe operations.
Oil companies have been drilling in the Gulf [...]
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