By Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com on October 24, 2014 at 5:27 PM, updated October 24, 2014 at 5:29 PM [caption id="attachment_857" align="alignleft" width="285"] Gov. Robert Bentley joins state and local leaders in Gulf Shores on May 14, 2013 to sign the bill authorizing construction of the Gulf State Park Convention Center with NRDA funds from the Deepwater Horizon oil [...]
Mississippi Power going coal-free at Plant Watson
Posted: Aug 04, 2014 10:57 AM CDT Updated: Aug 04, 2014 12:19 PM CDT By WLOX Staff WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - By next spring, Mississippi Power will stop using coal at Plant Watson in Gulfport. The move is part of a settlement with the Sierra Club. In exchange, the environmental group has [...]
Empty nets in Louisiana three years after the spill
By Matt Smith, CNN updated 1:37 PM EDT, Sat April 27, 2013 Yscloskey, Louisiana (CNN) -- On his dock along the banks of Bayou Yscloskey, Darren Stander makes the pelicans dance. More than a dozen of the birds have landed or hopped onto the dock, where Stander takes in crabs and oysters from the fishermen who work the bayou [...]
BP Trial: Day 1 and Day 2 Court Transcripts
BP Trial: Day 1 and Day 2 Court Transcripts
Fishers still angry about 2010 BP oil spill
Oil giant BP says the clean-up following the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been a success, but many fishers disagree. As the trial to resolve the remaining civil litigation opens, DW visits communities affected. 58 year-old fisherman Byron Encalade stands in one of his two boats. He hasn't used either of them in almost three years. [...]
Deadline for Hurricane Isaac flood-related loss claims once again extended
By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on February 22, 2013 at 12:42 PM, updated February 22, 2013 at 12:46 PM The deadline for Hurricane Isaac flood-related loss claims once again has been extended. The cutoff date had been Thursday (Feb. 21) for most Louisiana property owners with flood insurance policies, but FEMA now has pushed that back for [...]