BP placed a cap on the oil well, which has caused tremendous amount of damage for the Gulf of Mexico in the last few months. The cap seems to be working now and Gulf residents are anxiously watching whether the cap will stay there and collect the oil, or not. The oil spill started after [...]
BP attempted to capture all of the oil leaking in the Gulf Of Mexico by installing a new cap with a tighter seal on the well. According to their statement, this cap will be tested for approximately 48 hours, to check its integrity. If the tests succeed, than BP can start to suck up all [...]
“After the oil spill in the Gulf, you may want to pass on the sushi, shrimp and other seafood for longer than you think, if you don’t want to get cancer,” warns Milton Carl, Nutritionist at Axe Nutrition and author of “God’s Miracle Cure.” “With some experts saying that as much as 4,200,000 gallons of [...]
Twenty-eight-year-old Gordon Jones was working as a mud engineer aboard the Deepwater Horizon when the rig exploded, leaving his widow Michelle to care for their two young sons, one born just two weeks ago. Gordon’s father, Keith Jones of Baton Rouge, La., will be one of three Gulf Coast disaster victims testifying today before the [...]
From Padre Island National Seashore in Texas to the Everglades National Park in Florida, the 15 national parks, wildlife refuges and state parks in Gulf states most threatened by the ongoing BP oil blowout are identified in a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO). The [...]
On April 20, 2010, a Mayday call went out reporting an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. That first fateful call triggered an emergency response to save the rig from the deadly blaze, rescue crew members and try to avert an oil spill environmental disaster. Those were the chaotic first 36 hours before the [...]
As the devastating BP oil spill increasingly threatens Florida’s fishing, maritime and tourism industries, a team of nationally known attorneys led by Tallahassee lawyer and Northeastern University Professor P. Tim Howard last night filed an amended complaint in one of the first Florida class action lawsuits over the sinking of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon [...]
Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that he is dispatching a team of attorneys from multiple divisions within the Justice Department to New Orleans to meet with the U.S. Attorney and response teams and to monitor the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “The British Petroleum oil spill has already cost lives and created [...]
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today proposed that the Obama administration and Congress take five steps to limit the damage and recover from the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including passing a $4 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill. The five steps include: 1. Conduct a massive intervention — suitable in scale for a potentially unprecedented [...]
