Waterkeeper Updates
APNewsBreak: Suit challenges first offshore lease sale since Deepwater Horizon spill
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 11:27
By Associated Press, Published: December 13
NEW ORLEANS — Environmental groups challenged the first attempted auction of offshore petroleum leases in the western Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, filing a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/apnewsbreak-suit-challenges-first...
Update: Deepwater Horizon Report Highlights Unaddressed Risks of Ocean Oil Drilling
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 12:52
Mobile Baykeeper receives grant from EPA
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 12:34
EPA Awards Six Environmental Justice Grants in the Southeast
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/05d1cefef590accb85257961006cb...
Mobile Bay Keeper Inc. (Mobile, AL) will train property owners, business owners, and others who live and work along Alabama’s 670 miles of tidally influenced shoreline to identify and report impacts from the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and other coastal threats become engaged in the Natural Resource Damage Assessment process and understand the importance of coastal restoration.
Update from Gulf Restoration Network
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 10:39
http://healthygulf.org/201111151763/blog/bps-oil-drilling-disaster-in-th...
"I had the occasion more than once to fly over Elmer’s in 2010 during the height of the BP drilling disaster. Thanks to a donation of a great camera and lens by the Wallace Global Fund and the support of generous sponsors, especially Jo Billups, I was able to document impacts all throughout the Gulf. Take a look at these aerial photos from Elmer’s Island last year." Johnathan Henderson, Blog - BPs Oil Drilling Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
Mark your calendars!! 2012 Pharmaceutical Take-Back Event!
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 22:33
The next Pharmaceutical Take-Back Event is scheduled for Saturday, April 28, 2012!
Escambia to vote to clean up Saufley Landfill
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 22:06
Written by
Jamie Page, Pensacola News Journal
Escambia County commissioners tonight will vote on a contract to cleanup and close the abandoned Saufley Field Landfill.
Proposed measure could bring BP fine money to Gulf Coast
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 20:35
Five states would get 80 percent of payments
Written by
Deborah Barfield Berry
read more...
Baldwin County Now: Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft’s Congressional testimony
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:05
http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2011/12/07/local_news/doc4edfa4...
Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft testified before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on the need for the RESTORE act to be approved by Congress. The act will direct a large portion of fines expected to be paid by BP to the five coastal states affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.
Local Mayor Takes BP Oil Spill Fight to Washington
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 11:41
