July 30, 2019
Stories tagged "oil spill"
June 27, 2019
Taylor Energy’s 15-Year Oil Spill — No End Or Action in Sight
By Alexandra Patel As we have reported previously, in 2004, an oil production platform owned by Taylor Energy Company sank in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Ivan. This sparked an oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico...May 12, 2019
Houston Ship Channel Closed After Oil Spill From Tanker Collision
SHIP CHANNEL COLLISION: look at the impact of a crash involving a barge, carrying a toxic gas product, and a tanker. https://t.co/mwIMUrypcu #abc13 pic.twitter.com/5c8TIYECMC — Jessica Willey (@ImJessicaWilley) May 11, 2019 After two barges struck an oil tanker,...March 12, 2019
Oil Spill Threatens World’s Largest Coral Atoll
by Yoel Fessahaye A nightmare is unraveling in the jewel-toned waters of the Solomon Islands. According to CNN and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, a ship carrying 700 metric tons of heavy oil ran aground in Solomon Islands’ Kangava Bay,...March 7, 2019
Trump Administration Allows 1,700 Safety Exceptions For Offshore Drilling Operations
The Trump Administration has allowed 1700 “exceptions” to the “Well Control Rule” that the Obama Administration put in place in 2016 to improve drilling safety as a result of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Today, in a hearing on Capitol Hill,...February 21, 2019
Drill Baby Drill In the Everglades
The Florida Everglades may soon be the site of new oil and gas drilling operations. A Miami real estate developer has, after a four-year legal battle, received a permit to drill an exploratory oil well in the Everglades, just west of populous Broward County suburbs. ...February 13, 2019
New Study Recommends Billions for Gulf Restoration Projects
The National Audubon Society published a new report yesterday calling for the largest ecosystem restoration effort ever attempted — a $1.7-billion slate of distinct restoration projects spanning the states of Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, Louisana, and Florida. ...February 5, 2019
50 years after Santa Barbara oil spill, the call remains: ‘Get oil out’
Special to ODP from David Helvarg, first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 2019 Fifty years after a California oil spill launched the modern environmental movement, we may finally be moving beyond the age of oil, and none too soon. In October, the...February 2, 2019