wwltv.com Posted on June 23, 2011 at 6:30 PM Updated yesterday at 6:44 PM Bill Capo / Eyewitness News SHIP ISLAND, Ms. -- For boatloads of people, getting away from it all means a visit to Ship Island, enjoying the sand and surf 11 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico from Gulfport. Packed ferries this summer are good news [...]
By Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune In a blow to environmental advocacy groups, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier dismissed all environmental law claims by third-party organizations Thursday in the consolidated litigation over last year's oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, saying that they don't have standing because the oil has stopped and the responsible parties are cleaning [...]
By SABRINA CANFIELD NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Halliburton Energy Services and Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling on Friday sought to dismiss two states' economic damage claims in the consolidated Gulf of Mexico oil spill litigation. Both companies seek dismissal of claims from Alabama and Louisiana in Pleading Bundle C, which covers claims for economic damages filed by governmental entities. Halliburton and [...]
Is the Yazoo Pump finally dead? U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock last month ruled against it. But then, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had previously vetoed the project as provided under the Clean Water Act. The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners had challenging the EPA veto. It's really a terrible idea. Democratic Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called the plan to [...]
By: Susan Buchanan, Contributing Writer Posted: Monday, April 4, 2011 3:40 pm Residents along the Gulf Coast wish they could forget how last year's oil spill tore the fabric of local life by destroying jobs, harming health and reducing seafood consumption. But as the one-year anniversary of BP's well explosion nears on April 20, scientists and coastal advocates continue to [...]
