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Secrecy Issues: Japanese Government Erases Data on Children’s Radiation...

Japanese officials are ignoring some hard lessons of history – particularly those from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster – so now, as the old saying goes, they appear doomed to repeat them. The...

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Caving In To Fackers: Feds Move to Dismiss NY Lawsuit Aimed at Protecting the...

In a brazen pro-industry legal maneuver, the U.S. government has obtained permission from a federal judge to move to dismiss a lawsuit in New York that represents the last line of defense in protecting...

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BP’s Denial Upended: Gulf Flyover Surveillance Reveals Large Amount of...

We set off a firestorm Wednesday (Aug. 17) when we reported that oil is rising once again from BP's Macondo Well. We were informed by multiple, credible sources over the weekend and into Monday that BP...

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The Second Coming of Macondo: How Long Has Oil Been Leaking from BP’s...

BP's Macondo Well spewed sweet Louisiana crude for 87 straight, miserable days last summer. By April 30, 2010, Macondo oil choked nearly 4,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico. The gushing well...

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BP’s Macondo Matter: Huge New Slick Forming at Old Deepwater Horizon Site...

Despite multiple – increasingly frantic – reports that oil is bubbling to the surface near the old Deepwater Horizon site, BP and the Coast Guard say they haven't been able to find even the slightest...

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BP Busted, Again: LSU Scientist Proves Fresh Oil Surfacing at Deepwater...

The debate is over, and both BP and our federal government have some serious explaining to do. Upending repeated denials from the British oil giant and ongoing obfuscation from NOAA officials, a...

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Feds Put Transocean – Not BP – on the Hook to Find Source of Oil Surfacing at...

In predictable "better late than never" fashion, the federal government is finally demanding answers to a question that has kept the Gulf Coast on edge for more than a month: Why is there fresh oil...

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Are Fisheries Collapsing in the Gulf of Mexico? New Study Rocks Region’s...

A new study that went viral this week is sending shudders through coastal communities on the Gulf of Mexico – the heart and soul of the region's legendary seafood industry. The research, funded by the...

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Government’s Role in the Worst Oil Spill in U.S. History: “The Big Fix”...

Faith in the federal government has died on the Gulf Coast – or more accurately, it was killed. The trust between Gulf citizen and government was battered by the disastrously slow and inept federal...

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New Study Shows the FDA Got It Wrong: Despite the Agency’s “All Clear,” Gulf...

I've said it until I'm blue in the face. I've shouted it from the rooftops: Beware, the testing program the federal government uses to determine the safety of Gulf seafood is a complete sham. The...

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Dolphin Death Toll Hits 400 Since BP Spill: Four Carcasses Wash Ashore in...

The procession of purple, bloated carcasses serves as a grim reminder. As of mid-October, more than 400 dead dolphins – many of them pregnant mothers and calves – have washed up on Gulf beaches since...

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Government Scientists Tie BP Spill to Dolphin Die-Off in Gulf – And Suggest...

In a breaking news story that went viral over the weekend, government scientists have (finally) established a tie between last year's BP oil spill and the epidemic of dolphin deaths and rash of...

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Is BP’s Macondo Prospect Still Leaking? Fresh Oil Is Coming Ashore More Than...

Scientists confirmed last month that BP’s oil continues to bubble to the surface where the infamous Deepwater Horizon rig once sat. While federal officials bury their heads, the situation in the Gulf...

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Dereliction of Duty: U.S. Coast Guard Approves BP’s Plan to Shut Down Spill...

As fresh oil continues to blot on our sugar-white beaches and our fragile coastal marshes remain choked with thick crude, BP is set to pull the plug on cleanup efforts across the Gulf Coast – and,...

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Going, Going, Gone: Will the Gulf of Mexico Lose an Entire Generation of...

The long-term viability of the Gulf's bottlenose dolphin population is in jeopardy. Two more dead dolphins – juveniles, under a year in age – washed up on the beach in Gulfport, Mississippi, over the...

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Inside Japan’s Fallout Zone: Children’s Growth Severely Stunted From Nuclear...

Eight months after the crippled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant belched enormous plumes of radiation over the Japanese countryside, a new study reveals severely stunted growth in children living in the...

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BP’s Ace in the Hole: Halliburton Destroyed Key Evidence Tied to the...

So who is ultimately responsible for the worst oil spill in U.S. history? BP, the owner of the oil itself, assigns blame to Halliburton, the company that did the cement work on the doomed Macondo Well....

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The Drinking Water “Reeks of Chemicals”: EPA Ties Fracking to Severe...

There's something very wrong with the water in Pavillion, Wyoming. It reeks of chemicals. Local health officials warned residents not to drink it after the EPA found pollution in their wells. Some...

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A Look Behind the Curtain: Colorado Adopts Nation’s Toughest “Fracking Fluid”...

Thanks to courageous regulators in Colorado, the American public will get its first real look behind the curtain at the closely held "chemical recipe" used by natural gas drillers in the highly...

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Refusing to Come Clean: BP Denies Alleged Safety Violations Tied to Gulf Oil...

Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), a national leader on energy and the environment, calls it "appalling." And he's right. In yet another "adding insult to injury" moment for Gulf Coast residents who...

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BP Oil Spill May Have Caused Fish Embryos to “Disintegrate” En Masse

The damage the BP oil spill caused to fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico may be even more devastating than previously thought – and the recovery may be much longer and more difficult than expected. New...

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BP Resource Manual Directly Contradicts Official Company Assurances that...

As oil gushed from the Macondo Well in the spring of 2010, BP officials calmly assured tens of thousands of wary cleanup workers that the chemical dispersant Corexit posed no more of a health risk than...

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New Oil Spill Study: Gulf Bottlenose Dolphins Are Underweight, Anemic and...

In the wake of the BP oil spill, hundreds of dead bottlenose dolphins – some visibly oiled – washed up on Gulf Coast beaches at a rate nearly 10 times the norm. Many more died at sea. Dozens were...

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More from Macondo? Fresh, Highly Toxic BP Oil Rolls Ashore in Alabama’s...

All the slick BP tourism ads and fat research grants and indignant denials in the world can't change one crushing reality for the Gulf Coast: There's still fresh, highly toxic oil from the Macondo...

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Oil Companies Blamed for More Than 3,000 Dead Dolphins in Peru

Dead dolphins are washing ashore by the hundreds on a stretch of coastline less than 100 miles long in Peru. The corpses are stacking up so quickly that removal and disposal efforts are overwhelming...

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A Taste of the Grotesque in the Gulf: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and...

Nearly two years on from the worst oil spill in U.S. history, seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico looks like it belongs in a shop of horrors rather than an all-you-can-eat buffet. Severely...

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Editorial Correction: Closure of Gulf Waters to Shrimping Is Routine

CORRECTION: On April 21, ABC affiliate WEAR-TV, which covers Pensacola, Moblie and Fort Walton, reported on its website that some areas of the Gulf were being closed on the morning of April 23 due to...

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Threat to Bayou Corne grows as tests show elevated levels of radium, butane...

Elevated levels of radium in the water and tests showing airborne indicators of butane -- the highly explosive fuel stored in a nearby cavern -- are two alarming signs that the environmental...

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It gets worse at La. sinkhole as toxic gas released

On this Thanksgiving eve, let us not forget about the poor residents of Bayou Corne, La. It's coming up on four months since 150 families in this rural bayou community about 70 miles west of New...

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Six months into the sinkhole crisis, Texas Brine decides to see what’s going...

The last time that we visited the sinkhole in Bayou Corne, the situation did not look good. The giant hole on the earth, in the heart of bayou country between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, was getting...

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Fracking boom already well underway, now Pa. decides to check for lethal...

When it comes to fracking -- the popular term for the natural-gas drilling technique also known as hydraulic fracturing -- the approach has been to shoot first and ask questions later , even if...

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BP oil still assaulting Gulf beaches, getting more toxic

More than three years after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP's spilled oil is continuing to assault Louisiana's beaches -- and now we have lab tests showing that these giant...

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It’s going to take years to fix the Louisiana sinkhole

They had another community meeting about the sinkhole crisis in Bayou Corne last night, and like the swamp itself, passions are boiling over. Residents are frustrated with the loss of their homes for...

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Florida beach laced with BP’s toxic oily goop

It was just earlier this month that I told you about tests that Marco Kaltofen -- the chemical engineer who has worked with me on analyzing samples from the BP oil spill since the early days after the...

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Is the Obama administration looking the other way on fracking?

Nearly five years into the Obama administration, we've watched with great frustration as Washington so often says the right things on the environment -- then goes off and does something else. That was...

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Victims of last pipeline disaster forgotten as North America races to build...

What does it take to get people's attention these days? How about blowing up a cornfield in rural Illinois and sending bright orange flames shooting 300 feet into the prairie sky? Folks who live for...

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Scientists: BP oil missed by government pollutes sea floor, taints seafood

More than three years out, the pace of independent scientific research into the aftermath of the BP oil spill is increasing. These new reports are exactly the kind of outside analysis that both the oil...

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Texas fertilizer plants: An explosive situation

This blog would probably go out of business if governments would simply do their supposed job and regulate big business, with the simple goal of protecting the safety and long-term health of citizens....

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How BP poisoned 170,000 Gulf cleanup workers

The most misunderstood -- and arguably the most tragic -- outcome of the 2010 BP oil spill is the very serious risk to an estimated 170,000 citizens who had some role in cleaning up the environmental...

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Is Fukushima already poisoning hundreds of seafood consumers?

The news out of Fukushima just keeps getting worse and worse. It's been more than two years since a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami triggered a nuclear emergency at the massive seaside power...

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Tar sands creating a new “Cancer Alley” in Canada

I probably don't need to tell you what concentrating a band of oil refineries, chemical plants, and environmentally challenging industrial facilities can do to a community. Here in Louisiana, we've...

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Confirmed: State regulators in Pa. in the tank for Big Oil and Gas

Every day, new evidence emerges that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas or oil is not the environmentally safe procedure that industry officials keep insisting that it is. Whether it's...

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On Valentine’s Day, the Gulf’s tuna have broken hearts

It's not much of a Valentine's Day for much of America, snowed in by yet another massive winter storm. But here in the Gulf, one of the few parts of the nation that's snow-free, we're dealing with a...

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How is fracking ‘safe’ when we don’t know what’s in fracking fluids?

I've long predicted that California will be the place where the rubber hits the road for the fracking boom in America. The rewards in a resource-rich state are too great for Big Oil and Gas to ignore,...

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Another poor Rust Belt community is under assault by lead

It's almost starting to become a cliche in 2016: That this poor community or that city is poised to become "the new Flint." It's not surprising that such a stunning case of governmental malfeasance --...

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They still don’t take seafood safety seriously in the Gulf

In more than a quarter century as an environmental lawyer, I've learned a lot about the mostly ineffective ways that government regulators do their jobs -- and that learning curve definitely...

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Meet the small La. town with America’s highest cancer risk

I've written on this site about problems in what the locals in Louisiana call "Cancer Alley" -- the massive petrochemical facilities that mostly line the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New...

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Why does W. Va. want MORE toxic water pollution?

It wasn't that long ago when the issue of water pollution in West Virginia was front-page national news. You may remember the incident that happened just over three years ago, in January 2014,...

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A stunning case of kids, radioactivity and government neglect emerges in Ohio

In 2017, federal regulators from the U.S. Department of Energy testing the neighborhood around a 20th century uranium plant in Pike County, Ohio, made a startling discovery in the air near a middle...

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Trump’s DOE places a ticking nuclear time bomb at Hanford Site

Calling the 177 containers at the Hanford Nuclear Site in south-central Washington state that contain high-level radioactive waste “tanks” is not a very good description. Each of these so-called...

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