Category: BP Disaster

Our state and local leaders have been so quick to declare that the beaches, seafood and Gulf Coast are doing fine that we may have…

We know that much of what BP did last summer was all “ponies and balloons.” Publicity stunts to prop up stock prices and quell the…

While Sen. Marco Rubio was in Pensacola garnering attention while listening from local and state officials about the BP disaster, Florida’s senior U.S. Senator, Bill…

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a University of Florida-led team more than $6.5 million to study the environmental and psychological effects of the…

The University of West Florida was not included in the $1.5 million in grants awarded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. The 17 grants…

AP has an exclusive report on the deposition of former BP CEO Tony Hayward and his role during the BP oil disaster last summer. He…

Collier Merrill, fresh from a special event at the James Beard House in NYC, told the IN yesterday that he’s tired of hearing excuses from…

Reuters reports Transocean Ltd , the owner of the oil drilling rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last year, blamed BP…

Marketwatch reports Carl-Henric Svanberg, chairman of BP PLC, said today the oil giant was counting on getting permission to restart oil production in the U.S….

From Emerald Coastkeepers: Through funding from Gulf Coast Fund and our members, Emerald Coastkeeper has initiated a long-term oyster sampling project. Every six months we…

We sent our reporter Jeremy Morrison to the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force meeting. Here is his report: EPA Chief, task force visit Pensacola…

According to preliminary research by several Florida scientists, the combination of oil and Corexit, the chemical BP used to dissolve the slick, is more toxic…