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BP hit with $4.5 billion fine for Gulf oil spill
Company accepts criminal responsibility for 2010 disaster A NASA satellite captures an image of a swirling oil slick from BP’s failed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. By Summit...
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Environment: New study shows dispersant makes oil up to 52 times more toxic...
Small grazers at the base of the food chain most directly affected Followup studies after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill call into question the extensive use of chemical dispersants. Photo...
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Environment: Traces of Deepwater Horizon oil cause deformities, swimming...
An explosion and subsequent fire on BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico led to the biggest oil spill on recornd in U.S. coastal waters. Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard. Study...
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Environment: More Gulf restoration projects coming online
Northern Gulf of Mexico beaches will get some TLC this coming summer as part of the ongoing restoration work in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Sea turtle and bird habitat improvements...
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Environment: Deepwater Horizon disaster may have caused a ‘dirty blizzard’ in...
A NASA satellite image shows the widespread sheen of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico after the April 2010 failure of the Deepwater Horizon drilling operation. Researchers try to trace fate of...
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Environment: Is the Gulf of Mexico resilient to oil spills?
Research suggests role of bacteria has been underestimated Some of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster coated and killed deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico, but a large quantity may have...
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Environment: Study finds lingering impacts from Gulf oi spill
UC Davis scientist Andrew Whitehead collects fish at a field site in May 2010, weeks after the April Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A 2013 study he co-authored shows killifish at oil-impacted sites...
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Environment: New report takes a broader look the ecological impacts of the...
Wider ecosystem services must be considered in damage assessments BP oil from the Deepwater Horizon drill rig spreads across the northern Gulf of Mexico. By Summit Voice FRISCO — The total impacts of...
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Environment: Researchers still tracking oil leaks from the Deepwater Horizon...
A massive slick from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spreads across the Gulf of Mexico in July 2010. Photo courtesy NASA. Oil ‘fingerprinting’ technique shows the oil is likely from the wreckage of the...
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Sea-bottom ecosystems hit by 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster could take...
Study finds extensive loss of biodiversity One of the impacted corals with attached brittle starfish. Although the orange tips on some branches of the coral is the color of living tissue, it is...
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Study: Exposure to crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster causes...
Evidence is mounting that BP’s oil harmed millions of large fish Crude oil spreads across a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Independent journalism isn’t...
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Environment: More signs of coral damage from BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil...
Coral reefs miles away from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster were afffected by the spill. Ecological footprint of oil spill spread farther than previously believed Staff Report FRISCO — Oil from the...
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Oil-eating microbes in the Gulf of Mexico left behind the most toxic remnants...
Impacts likely to persist for decades Oil: Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Staff Report FRISCO — Oil-eating microbes in the Gulf of Mexico may have helped break down some of the pollution...
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Environment: $627 million restoration plan finalized to repair some of the...
Barrier islands, shorelines, dunes, underwater grasses and oyster beds targeted for restoration A NASA satellite image shows the oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon disaster spreading across the...
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Study finds Deepwater Horizon oil ‘fallout zone’
A NASA satellite view shows oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster spreading across the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. “Oily particles were raining down around these deep sea corals …’ Staff Report...
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Environment: EPA eyes new rules for oil spill dispersants
Public comment sought on proposed standards Dispersant being applied to the Gulf of Mexico. Staff Report FRISCO — When BP’s failed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig spewed millions of gallons of crude oil...
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Study finds massive amounts of oil from Deepwater Horizon disaster buried in...
A NASA satellite image shows oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico. ‘It’s a conduit for contamination into the food web …’ Staff Report FRISCO — Five years after BP’s failed Deepwater Horizon drill...
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Study says dispersants deadlier to coral than oil
As early as 2012, scientists documented how oil and oil dispersants damaged communities of deep sea coral in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo courtesy Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMR. ‘It doesn’t take as...
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Still more questions than answers about the ecological effects of oil...
Scientists say more study needed before the next big spill Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster approaches the Alabama coastline. Courtesy U.S. Navy. Staff Report FRISCO — Fallout from the 2010...
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Gulf of Mexico dolphin die-off linked with exposure to oil from 2010...
‘Dolphins are particularly susceptible to inhalation effects due to their large lungs, deep breaths and extended breath hold times’ A bottlenose dolphin in the Gulf of Mexico. @bberwyn photo. Staff...
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