Just days after BP stopped the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expedite the reopening of Louisiana’s waters to…
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Reasons to like being in the news business are usually led by the fact that one never knows what is coming and no two days are the same.
At the time when the Deepwater Horizon…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expanded the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico again this week. The new area includes portions of Louisiana’s federal-state waterline which is located in the northwestern boundary…
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Researchers at Mississippi State University State Chemical Lab have developed new method for testing Gulf of Mexico seafood for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the main oil contaminants that affect seafood.
The lab is working on a…
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Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), chair of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is leading the congressional investigation into the BP oil spill, sent a letter to U.S. Food…
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Maybe now if the Gulf seafood industry could just see over the horizon, it would be comforted just by knowing what’s really ahead. Instead, in the 79 days since the Deepwater Horizon blew up, safe…
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The chemical being used in the Gulf of Mexico to help disperse the onslaught of oil is no more toxic than oil itself, according to a preliminary government study.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released…
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“Sometimes life’s not fair,” said Vice President Joe Biden, as he addressed a small crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana yesterday. “Y’all have been hit with Katrina, Gustav and now the BP oil spill. You’ve been…
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Oyster restoration projects, such as the effort to bring back the native Olympia oyster to some of the inland waters of Southern California, might someday replace Gulf oysters that go missing from the BP oil…
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As of 5 p.m. local time yesterday, the area of the Gulf of Mexico closed to fishing because of the BP oil spill grew by 7 percent to 86,985 square miles. The area closed is…
