“Something really disastrous happening in the Gulf”: Research proves BP’s...
There's an old saying in legal circles that the cover-up is always much worse than the initial crime. It's hard to say if that is exactly true with the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico...
View ArticleFrom New York to New Orleans, noise pollution terrorizes the public
Shhhhhh. Can you hear me? We need to talk again. A couple of times since I started this blog, I've told you about another environmental battle that I've been waging in my hometown for a long time -- a...
View ArticleLouisiana covers up risk to Bayou town from sinkhole, massive methane leak
Here we go again. Once again, a corner of Louisiana is under an environmental assault, threatening both the health and the immediate safety of local residents. Once again, the cause appears to be the...
View ArticleIf another major pipeline spill doesn’t convince them to kill Keystone XL,...
When will America ever learn? Industry and some government officials -- helped sometimes by mixed signals from the Obama administration -- continue to push for the Keystone XL pipeline to run across...
View ArticleIncompetent Louisiana regulators knew of risk at sinkhole site since early 2011
It's hard to know which is the worst thing about the ongoing environmental nightmare in the southeastern Louisiana community of Bayou Corne, where a massive sinkhole has forced an evacuation after...
View ArticleDisappearing La. speckled trout another blow to BP’s Big Lie
You can add speckled trout to the list. Over the last several months, I've told you about all kinds of reports about serious problems to both the safety and available of Gulf seafood. Eyeless shrimp....
View Article“Something has gone wrong”: The mutant butterflies of Fukushima
You may be familiar with the scientific theory known as "the butterfly effect" -- a small change in nature today that creates major transformations in the future. The famous scenario speculates that a...
View ArticleUPDATE: Sinkhole crisis worsens, 2 workers rescued, town braces for possible...
The nightmare in Bayou Corne -- the besieged small town in southeastern Louisiana coping with the effects of a massive sinkhole, compounded by the incompetence of state bureaucrats -- keeps getting...
View ArticleA plea for stronger radiation standards in Europe — and at home
I'm involved in a lot of environmental issues these days, but there was one cause that got me started: Fighting back against radiation poisoning. My first big environmental case, more than two decades...
View ArticleThreat 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...
View ArticleUpdate: Expert says Louisiana officials “in denial” over radium risk at sinkhole
A veteran radiation expert says Louisiana environmental officials are "in denial" over the hazard posed by elevated radium levels discovered in the slurry liquids of the massive sinkhole that has...
View ArticleIsaac likely to bring grim, oily reminders of 2010 BP spill to Gulf coastline
Tropical Storm Isaac is bearing down on the Louisiana coast and is likely to become a hurricane later today, before making landfall somewhere close to New Orleans. This is not good news for either my...
View ArticleBP cleanup crews spotted as Isaac stirs up oil, bad memories
For residents of the battered Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac didn't just bring sheets of rain, pummeling winds, and a powerful storm surge. The slow moving, deceptively destructive Category 1 hurricane...
View ArticleBombshell: Feds slam BP in key court filing, admit pollution from 2010 spill...
In a bombshell federal court filing, U.S. government lawyers are slamming British Petroleum for making false and misleading statements that seek to both dodge blame for 2010's Deepwater Horizon...
View ArticleWorst fears about BP oil washing ashore after Isaac are coming true
Last week, I reported on this blog there were early indications that Hurricane Isaac had indeed whipped up some of as much as 1 million gallons of BP's spill oil that remain in the Gulf, assaulting...
View ArticleBreaking: Spill settlement unraveling as Halliburton slams deal; BP stock...
BP's $8.7 billion attempt to put the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill behind it continues to come undone. In the latest unraveling of the oil giant's proposed settlement with thousands of Gulf residents...
View ArticleLouisiana unloads and blows giant hole in BP settlement
For the last 29 months, I've been chronicling the widespread and still-very-much-ongoing fallout from BP's gross negligence -- "a corporate culture of recklessness," as U.S. government lawyers called...
View ArticleWe object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”
The last couple of weeks have brought a lot of news – both good and bad – down here to the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaac was a double whammy; the storm itself destroyed homes and upended people’s lives,...
View ArticleNow, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR
You've got to say this about British Petroleum -- they have some nerve. For more than two years, we've been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the sick and...
View ArticleLouisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac
In recent months, I've joined with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and others in calling for the state's Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to be stripped of its powers and for the federal...
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