Gulf Coast
The majority of the Southern states lie along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, a body of water which has recently suffered from devastating earthquakes, powerful hurricanes, and an environmental disaster the effects of which we’ll still be feeling years from now. Yet the Gulf Coast remains a region of rich cultural heritage and strong Southern people.
Life After BP
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January 10, 2012
When the BP Deepwater Horizon rig blew up off the Louisiana coast on April 20, 2010, it triggered what would turn out to be the worst oil spill in U.S. history, with almost 200...
Fighting for home: A discussion with Clarice Friloux of United Houma Nation
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May 22, 2012
Clarice Friloux is a resident of Grand Bois, a small community bordering Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes in Louisiana, and works as the outreach coordinator for the United Houma...
Voices: Speaking out against the Tar Sands pipeline
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May 15, 2012
Washington’s political wars rarely match reality back home. So when politicians and K Street lobbyists peddle the $7 billion Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, you...
Poll documents ongoing emotional harm from BP oil disaster
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May 10, 2012
Two years after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Coast residents continue to suffer emotional fallout from the disaster.
That's the conclusion of a new survey...
Lawsuit blames BP's Gulf pollution for divers' injuries, suicides
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May 7, 2012
A commercial diver who worked in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP disaster has filed a lawsuit blaming his serious health problems -- and his colleagues' suicides -- on the...
New Mississippi law boosts local hiring in disaster's wake
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May 3, 2012
Following Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, Gulf Coast community leaders raised concerns about the failure to prioritize hiring local residents for recovery jobs -- but an...
BP sees a return to grandeur as Gulf fishermen reel from disaster
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May 1, 2012
By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf
The second memorial of the nation's worst oil catastrophe has come and gone, forever linked to Earth Day and seared into the psyches of...
Feds file first criminal charges related to BP Gulf spill
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April 25, 2012
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica
Two years after oil from a BP well began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed criminal charges alleging that...
New survey details BP oil spill's human health damages
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April 23, 2012
People living along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle continue to suffer health problems as a result of the BP oil disaster, according to a new survey...
BP Two Years Later: Searching for alternatives in New Orleans East
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April 20, 2012
The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls...
TROUBLED WATERS: Two years into BP's oil disaster, Gulf communities struggle to recover
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April 20, 2012
Two years after the BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the biggest oil disaster in U.S. history, a Facing South/Institute for Southern...
BP 2-Year Anniversary: Searching for Hope, Struggling for Survival in the Gulf
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April 20, 2012
The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls...
BP 2-Year Anniversary: What can be done to restore the Gulf?
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April 20, 2012
The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls...
BP 2-Year Anniversary: Gulf still sick from BP oil disaster
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April 20, 2012
The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls...
BP Two Years Later: The Gulf's vanishing coastline
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April 20, 2012
The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls...
Two Years Later: Visualizing the BP oil disaster
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April 20, 2012
Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies this week released a report titled "Troubled Waters" on the aftermath of the BP oil disaster, a human and environmental...
BP 2-Year Anniversary: Fishers, Gulf residents struggle to protect a way of life
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April 20, 2012
The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls...
Audit finds BP disaster fund underpaid $64M for losses
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April 20, 2012
Following BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the company set up a $20 billion fund to compensate Gulf Coast residents and businesses for their losses -- but local leaders...
Troubled Waters: Gulf communities still reeling two years into BP disaster
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April 19, 2012
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On April 20, 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring 17 others. For three months the well...
Litany for the sea
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April 18, 2012
This Friday, April 20, marks the second anniversary of the explosion and fire on BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig off the Louisiana coast, which killed 11 workers and sent...
VOICES | Bless these shrimps: Faith, fishing and Gulf Coast restoration
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April 17, 2012
By Jeffrey Buchanan, Oxfam America
Faith and fishing: two central parts of Louisiana's vibrant coastal culture. Every April, going back generations, you can see them...
'Come and see for yourselves': A Gulf Coast activist addresses BP shareholders
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April 13, 2012
Yesterday two community advocates and regional leaders from the Gulf Coast, Bryan Parras and Derrick Evans, brought an urgent message to BP's board and shareholders at the...
Mississippi residents find death along oily Gulf shores
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March 29, 2012
By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf
Since BP's catastrophic oil blowout nearly two years ago, Laurel Lockamy has gotten pretty good at photographing the dead. She's ...
Oil from BP disaster contaminated ocean food chain, research confirms
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March 15, 2012
Scientists have confirmed that oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster has entered the marine food chain.
Research by faculty and students at East Carolina University in...
BP under fire for contradictory statements on dispersant dangers
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March 7, 2012
Two watchdog groups sent a joint letter to BP America's Ombudsman Program last week after obtaining a resource manual for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that detailed serious...
