gulf watch
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Fearing more toxic emissions, Texans speak out against Keystone XL pipeline to Gulf Coast refineries (video)
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March 22, 2012
With President Obama directing federal agencies to expedite a 485-mile pipeline that will carry crude oil from Oklahoma to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast, people living near...
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 recognizes health concerns in settlement
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March 5, 2012
By Brentin Mock, Bridge the Gulf
As Midwest and Midsouth communities mourned and regathered from tornados that claimed at least 30 lives and billions in destruction Friday night...
BP funds Gulf research, but not the boats needed to conduct it
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February 28, 2012
In the wake of its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP pledged up to $500 million over a decade to create an independent program to conduct scientific research at institutions in...
VOICES: Considering BP's history of violence
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February 20, 2012
By Brentin Mock, Bridge the Gulf
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier decided that in the civil trial against BP for their oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the...
A Valentine for the Gulf
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February 14, 2012
There's speculation on the Gulf Coast that BP could soon reach a settlement in the civil suit over its 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Opening arguments in the historic...
Has the Gulf oil disaster fallen off America's radar?
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January 31, 2012
For residents of the Gulf Coast, the BP oil spill is an ongoing disaster that's still causing serious health problems, environmental damage and economic hardship in one of the...
Mothers, grandmothers speak out about children's health problems after BP disaster (video)
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January 20, 2012
In the wake of the 2010 BP oil disaster, many cleanup workers as well as residents of Gulf Coast communities impacted by the spill reported unusual health symptoms linked to...
A Gulf chorus fights BP's PR war
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January 3, 2012
By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf
BP's newest PR salvo touting its Gulf cleanup hit a nerve with many residents still struggling to get their lives back (...
Top 5 of 2011 - #2: Poisoned in the Gulf
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December 28, 2011
NOTE: Facing South will be posting lightly over the winter holidays. As we close out the year, we look back at our big stories of 2011. Our earlier entries in the series included...
INSTITUTE INDEX: Shining a light on Gulf restoration
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December 8, 2011
Amount BP agreed to pay up front for restoration projects prior to completion of what's known as the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) measuring the harm done by the...
Fresh testing shows persistent contamination in Gulf region's FEMA trailers
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December 2, 2011
By Ariella Cohen, The Lens
More than six years after FEMA provided displaced Hurricane Katrina victims with trailers that were later revealed to be toxic, early tests suggest...
Louisiana's Houma Indians fight for federal recognition
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November 29, 2011
By Adam Crepelle, Bridge the Gulf
I am a citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN), Louisiana’s largest Indian tribe with over 17,000 citizens. Louisiana's wetlands are...
From the oil disaster frontlines
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November 14, 2011
By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf
As Keystone XL protesters savor their victory to postpone the pipeline project, another oil policy decision last week did not turn out...
FDA underestimated health risks of Gulf seafood following BP disaster, study finds
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October 19, 2011
The concerns were often heard in Gulf Coast communities in the months after the BP oil disaster began unfolding last April: The federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) was...
Tropical storm leaves behind oily mystery in Mississippi
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September 21, 2011
When Tropical Storm Lee made landfall along the Louisiana coast earlier this month, it caused widespread flooding across the Gulf region and washed oil from last year's BP...
Landrieu opposes Obama jobs plan over ending oil-industry tax breaks
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September 16, 2011
President Obama unveiled his $447 billion jobs plan last week during an address to a joint session of Congress, calling on members to pass the plan "right away."
The American Jobs...
