Weekly News Roundup: Six Month Spill Anniversary

Photo by Anna Brones, (flight provided by www.southwings.org)

Our weekly roundup of noteworthy news and stories related to the Gulf Coast.

Day of Mourning – The 6-month Anniversary of Gulf Oil Spill – via Earthjustice

And while so much remains unknown, there are a few things we know for certain: Our government’s oversight over this industry was grossly negligent. We need much stronger oversight, we need much tighter regulations on offshore drilling, and we need to pay attention to science in the permitting of drilling projects. And when the science isn’t adequately supporting more or deeper drilling, we need to stop risking our economies, communities and ecosystems, and we need to stop drilling.

Six month anniversary of the BP oil disaster – Thoughtful editorial written by Mobile Baykeeper

I’ve put off writing this article all day hoping that by the time I organized my thoughts about the past six months and all that we Alabamians have been through that the oil would actually be gone. But it’s not. Volunteers continue to find oil – small, medium or large bits are still being found out there.

NOAA Chief Speaks on Environmental Health of Gulf – via On Earth Magazine

From the Shores of Louisiana – Is Gulf Seafood Safe? – via Gadling

It’s rare for me to see 67-year-old Wilma Subra – chemist, MacArthur Grant ‘genius,’ grandmother of six – so worked up. But when I asked last week how things were going in the Gulf, where she’s been measuring levels of toxicity in air, water and fish long before the BP gusher began she was adamant that things are still bad out there. – Jon Bowermaster