BP Posts $4.2 Billion In Q1 Profits As Its Chemical Dispersants Continue To Harm The Gulf
BP announced its 2013 first-quarter profits this morning, reporting earnings of $4.2 billion — down 10 percent from this time last year but higher than analysts’ forecasts. ...
Three Years After Deepwater Horizon, Congress Has Failed To Improve Drilling Safety
By Shiva Polefka Today, Saturday, April 20th, marks the third anniversary of the explosion aboard BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers and set off the largest accidental ...
Deepwater Horizon: The Disaster That Keeps on Harming
The devastating (but not wholly unexpected) results of a University of South Florida (USF) study suggest the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico. Foraminifera — ...
Weekly News Roundup – April 5, 2013
Want to know what National Wildlife Federation was up to this week? Here is a recap of the week’s NWF news:
Report: Gulf Wildlife Three Years into the Gulf Oil Disaster
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The Green Buzz: Wednesday, April 3
What goes great with that morning caffeine buzz? The Green Buzz.
“Unprecedented” dolphin deaths in the Gulf linked to BP oil spill? (Huffington Post)
Giant ocean garbage ...
BP is Even More Dangerously Arrogant Than You Thought
Striped dolphins swim through BP oil, April 2012 (NOAA’s National Ocean Service)Haven’t been following the BP oil spill trial this week? You’ve missed a series of ...
Trial Starts for BP’s Deepwater Horizon Clean Water Act Violations
By Shiva Polefka, Michael Conathan, and Kiley Kroh In November 2012, BP settled the Justice Department’s criminal case against it in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, ...
Gulf Residents Ask DOJ to Hold BP Fully Accountable
Today marked the start of the civil trial to hold BP accountable for the 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. As dawn broke in New Orleans, 50 Gulf coast residents and representatives ...
BP Rakes In $11.6 Billion In Profits For 2012
By Jackie Weidman Today, BP was the last of the Big Five Oil companies to announce its total 2012 earnings, raking in a net profit of $1.6 billion in the fourth quarter and bringing ...
1,000 Days Late and Billions of Dollars Short
Tomorrow marks one thousand days since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, spewing millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days. The oil spill devastated ...
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, January 10
Today’s green news features awww-dorable penguin photos. Too cute to miss.
Now that’s a hidden talent: baby sharks sense danger even before they’re born. (Wired)
No ...
BP’s Oil and Especially Dispersant Toxic to Baby Corals
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Mountainous star coral (Montastraea faveolata) spawns, releasing sperm ...
Transocean To Pay $1.4 Billion In Civil & Criminal Penalties For Deepwater Horizon Disaster
In November of last year, British oil giant BP agreed to a historic $4.5 billion criminal fine in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and blew ...
Oil Still Leaking From Deepwater Horizon Site
On Thursday BP and the Coast Guard took a stealthy cruise in the Gulf of Mexico to look for oil leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. That’s right, two and ...
Photo Gifts that Inspire and Protect
I have no doubt that images are worth 1,000 words when I look at this stunning photograph of a dolphin in the crystalline waters of its natural habitat off the coast of California.
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