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Fire boats battle blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon rig the day after it exploded on April 20, 2010.  Photo courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Transocean denies skimping on rig maintenance

By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Week Five at the Gulf spill trial last week, a Transocean executive and a company captain testified that the Swiss-based

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Coast reclamation advocates warn fight over how to spend BP fines far from over

By Bob Marshall thelensnola.org As lawyers battle in federal court to determine how many billions in fines BP and its partners owe for damages caused

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BP employees and outside experts testify in spill trial
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on the trial. In the second week of a milestone spill trial at U.S. District Court ...
Lawsuit seeks withheld information about leaking Gulf oil wells
By Sue Sturgis Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) —Clean water advocates have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard over its refusal to answer public ...
Spill trial against BP and its partners gets under way
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles on the trial. A landmark environmental trial kicked off last week at United States ...
Top state official rebuts dire warning, insists coast can be saved
By Bob Marshall http://thelensnola.org Yes, we can. And, by the way: You’re wrong. That’s how Garret Graves, head of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, and some coastal scientists ...
Lenten Season gives seafood vendors much needed boost
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer After feasting on king cake during Mardi Gras, your tastes may have turned to oysters, shrimp and crabs during Lent. Seafood demand rises in the more than ...
Louisiana coast faces highest rate of sea-level rise worldwide
By Bob Marshall thelensnola.org Stunning new data not yet publicly released shows Louisiana losing its battle with rising seas much more quickly than even the most pessimistic studies have predicted.
Nature Center fallow for seven years: IG urges feds to pull plug on funding
By Tyler Bridges thelensnola.org Time’s up, Audubon. That’s the message the federal government is delivering to the Audubon Commission for failing to spend $7.6 million in federal dollars for restoration of the Louisiana ...
Former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson brief President Barack Obama about the BP oil spill in Venice, La. on May 2, 2010. Official White House photo
Former USCG head assesses the BP spill
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Last Monday in New Orleans, retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen told scientists and others about the challenges he faced as National Incident Commander during ...

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