Early this summer LEAN acquired a sample of soil from around the Bayou Corne sink hole and sent it to Marco Kaltofen at Boston Chemical Data Corp. and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute previously analyzed many samples related to the BP oil spill.… 
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Soil Sample Testing Results From The Bayou Corne Sinkhole
Early this summer LEAN acquired a sample of soil from around the Bayou Corne sink hole and sent it to Marco Kaltofen at Boston Chemical Data Corp. and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute previously analyzed many samples related to the BP oil spill.…
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NEW REPORT: Hurricane Isaac Case Study, Gulf Coast Coal, Petrochemical Facilities Not Prepared for Hurricanes
The Gulf Monitoring Consortium released a new report today, Aug. 6 2013. Lessons from Hurricane Isaac, Gulf Coast Coal and Petrochemical Facilities Still Not Storm Ready.
Gulf Monitoring Consortium
For Immediate Release
NEW REPORT: Hurricane Isaac Case Study
Gulf Coast Coal, Petrochemical Facilities Not Prepared for Hurricanes
Contact: David Manthos, Communications Director, SkyTruth, 304.885.4581
Anne Rolfes, Founding Director Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 504.452.4909
For a copy of the report, including the five Key Findings, visit www.gulfmonitor.org
(August 6) Problems at coal, chemical and oil facilities, many of them preventable, resulted in extremely high levels of air and water pollution during and after Hurricane Isaac.… Over 5,000 People Sign Petition to Ban Oil Spill Dispersants, still time left to sign!
The goal for the petition was 5,000 signatures. Well, it’s reached 5,000 signatures already and there are 12 days left! Let’s help them blow way past that goal.
On April 19, 2013, Government Accountability Project (GAP) released Deadly Dispersants in the Gulf: Are Public Health and Environmental Tragedies the New Norm for Oil Spill Cleanups? The report details the devastating long-term effects on human health and the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem stemming from BP and the federal government’s widespread use of the dispersant Corexit, in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: BP, Deepwater Horizon disaster, Environmental Tragedies, GAP, Government Accountability Project, oil, Oil Spill Dispersants
Environmental Impacts From Hurricane Isaac
Despite the fact that we live in an area that gets hit by hurricanes every few years, and has for untold millennia, Louisiana Industry is consistently unable or unwilling to take the steps necessary to prevent environmental impacts due to hurricanes.… Gulf Monitoring Consortium Update Report
On April 19, 2011, SkyTruth, SouthWings, and Waterkeeper Alliance launched the Gulf Monitoring Consortium: an innovative partnership that is systematically monitoring oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico with satellite images and mapping, aerial reconnaissance and photography, and on-the-water observation and sampling.… 154 Environmental, Fishing, Chemical Reform, and Community Groups Demand Public Health Attention in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster
A diverse coalition of 154 groups, including Waterkeeper Alliance, United Houma Nation, Association of Family Fishermen and 69 different Waterkeepers organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of community members around the country, Mexico and China, sent a letter to EPA Administrator Jackson and HHS Secretary Sebelius demanding action on the growing public health crisis on the Gulf Coast.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: BP, Full Gulf Coast, Louisiana, oil disaster, public health crisis, Wilma Subra
The Weeks Bay Principles for Gulf Recovery
The Weeks Bay Principles for Gulf Recovery
On October 4-6, 2010, ninety-five people representing forty-six community, local, regional, national and international environmental, social justice, and fishermen’s groups, met at the Beckwith Camp and Conference Center on Weeks Bay, Alabama. The meeting was sponsored by Gulf Restoration Network, Gulf Coast Fund and Save Our Gulf (a coalition of Gulf of Mexico waterkeeper programs working on the BP oil disaster).…
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Dead Bird Island – Terrebonne Parish
We continued our sampling efforts last week in Terrebonne Bay with Chief Chuckie Verdin of the Pointe Au Chien indian community.
LEAN’s relationship with Pointe Au Chien began after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita when we delivered relief supplies there at the request of Chief Chuckie.…
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Gulf of Mexico Water and Soil Sampling Video
In our continuing effort to document and learn from the trajic events of the BP drilling disaster we are conducting regular excursions to the Mississippi Delta, taking water and soil samples and an efforts to determine what linguiring effects the spill will have on the toxcicty of our vanishing wetlands.… 
