‘Report card’ gives Mississippi River basin a D+ for infrastructure condition – ‘Multiple failures may be imminent’

By Jim Salter14 October 2015 ST. LOUIS (AP) – A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with an aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. The report by America’s Watershed Initiative, released Wednesday in St. Louis, assesses categories such as the abundance of […]

Study shows how climate change threatens health – ‘The science of climate change and the threat to human and population health is irrefutable, and the threat is evolving quickly’

14 August 2015 (NCDP) – Researchers at Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) and the University of Washington have published a new study focused on the public health implications of climate change. The article explores climate change impacts on human health in the U.S. Gulf Coast and has implications for this and other […]

Move mouth of Mississippi to save New Orleans – ‘New Orleans will soon lay naked against the sea’

21 August 2015 (Sky News US) – Engineers have said that part of the Mississippi delta must be left to deteriorate completely if New Orleans is to be saved from another powerful hurricane. Thousands of miles of wetland between the city and the Gulf of Mexico, which once provided a natural buffer to surges created […]

The $50 billion plan to save Louisiana’s wetlands – Last stretch of 30 miles nearest to the Mississippi River delta to be abandoned – ‘There’s no hope of saving those areas’

By Robert Boos19 July 2015 (PRI) – Louisiana is in trouble. The Mississippi River Delta is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 16 square miles a year, some of the fastest land loss on the planet. The bayou lands are crucial to the nation’s fisheries, as well as regional oil and […]

BP to pay record $18.7 billion to settle claims in Gulf oil spill – ‘The largest settlement with a single entity in American history’

By Margaret Cronin Fisk, Laurel Calkins, and Del Quentin Wilber2 July 2015 (Bloomberg) – BP will pay a record $18.7 billion to resolve claims by the U.S. and five states along the Gulf of Mexico related to the 2010 oil spill. The payments will be spaced out over as long as 18 years, according to […]

Floodwaters causing new Gulf of Mexico dead zone off Texas

By Rusty Surette18 June 2015 COLLEGE STATION (KBTX) – Record rainfall totals in many parts of Texas the past few weeks means a record amount of freshwater pouring into the Gulf of Mexico – as high as 10 times the normal rate – and that could lead to huge problems for marine life and commercial […]

Louisiana governor signs bill to kill lawsuit against oil, gas companies – ‘I’m sure BP will use it for appeals’

By Julia O’Donoghue6 June 2014 (The Times-Picayune) – Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed legislation aimed at killing a lawsuit filed by a New Orleans area regional levee board against 97 oil and gas companies, despite concerns that the new law could negatively affect state and government claims against BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico […]

New science shows BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill is still killing dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico

20 May 2015 (PBS) – JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: the lasting impact of America’s biggest offshore oil spill. It comes as officials are grappling with a new spill along the coast of Southern California near Santa Barbara. It began yesterday when an onshore pipeline ruptured. Slicks are now spanning a total of nine miles and the […]

U.S. agencies fear Gulf oil spill could persist 100 years or more if unchecked

By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN25 May 2015 WASHINGTON (AP) – A decade-old oil leak where an offshore platform toppled during a hurricane could continue spilling crude into the Gulf of Mexico for a century or more if left unchecked, according to government estimates obtained by The Associated Press that provide new details about the […]

Secrecy shrouds decade-old oil spill in Gulf of Mexico – ‘A dirty little secret in plain sight’

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JEFF DONN 16 April 2015 OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) – A blanket of fog lifts, exposing a band of rainbow sheen that stretches for miles off the coast of Louisiana. From the vantage point of an airplane, it’s easy to see gas bubbles in the slick that mark the […]

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