Gulf Oil Spill: BP Execs Escape Punishment as Fallout from Disaster Continues to Impact Sea Life “Two years since the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, we look at its impact on the Gulf of Mexico’s residents and wildlife even as no BP officials have faced criminal prosecution for the disaster. Eleven workers died [...]
Yearly Archives: 2012
Dahr Jamail Interviewed on Democracy Now! about Gulf Oil Spill
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Al Jazeera features ongoing BP oil disaster coverage
Al Jazeera’s Spotlight Page features Dahr Jamail’s ongoing coverage of BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: Deep Trouble
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Gulf of Mexico spill takes toll on health
While some ailing local residents and clean-up workers have settled with BP, others have filed class-action suits. Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, local residents and clean-up workers say they have developed serious illnesses. Those affected blame a combination of the five million barrels of oil spilled [...]
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Oceans of Pollution
Scientists and experts are alarmed at amount of plastic debris and growing ‘dead zones’ in the world’s oceans. A drumbeat of recent scientific studies emphasises an increasingly alarming convergence of crises for Earth’s oceans. The amount of plastic floating in the Pacific Gyre – a massive swirling vortex of rubbish – has increased 100-fold in [...]