PSDS: Louisiana Oil Spill Aerial View
These photo mosaics were created by Stewart Long of GonzoEarth.com.
PSDS: Lousiana Coast
PSDS research staff headed to the Louisiana coast a few days ahead of President Obama’s visit to Grand Isle. Adam Griffith was on the coast of Louisiana for two and a half days and met birders, news crews, and volunteers from various non-profit organizations.
US opens criminal investigation into oil spill
“We will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who has violated the law,” Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters in New Orleans. “We will not rest until justice is done.”
BP clashes with scientists over deep sea oil pollution
Colin Powell said, the military should step in because the crisis was now “beyond the capacity” of BP to stop.
White House Tries to Regroup, Criticism Mounts Over Leak
The failure of the most recent effort, known as a top kill, which BP officials expressed great optimism about before trying it, has underlined the gaps in knowledge and science about the spill and its potential remedies.
Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill
“Americans have a lot of faith that over the long run technology will solve everything, a sense that somehow we’re going to find a way to fix it,” said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger.
There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight.
Gulf leak eclipses Exxon Valdez as worst US spill
As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
Take punitive action against BP now
It’s interesting how many people have swallowed the BP public relations’ bait to call the explosion from Deepwater Horizon oil rig the Gulf oil spill. We need to call it what it is: the BP oil spill.