Mon, May 21, 2012

Environmental Health Around the Web

 

Is Gulf Seafood Really Safe? Local Fisherman Express Concern as They Return to Work

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

Is it Safe to Eat Seafood from the Gulf?

“After three long months of oil geysering continuously from the depths of the Gulf, a temporary cap has stemmed the flow and it appears that the well is on its way to being killed. But we are by no means through this disaster,” said Senator…

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Oil Spill Update: A Report From the Beach

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago

This is my place. This is my peace. This is where I come to pray. Now it’s damaged for years to come,” Dauphin Islander Angela Bonner tells me as we stand on the pier that stretches out over the beach. This fine white sand beach on Alabama’s Gulf Coast is nearly empty save for clean-up crews…

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What We Still Don’t Know About the BP Oil Spill

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago

“I want this seafood to be safe. But I want those workers to be as safe as those shrimp and I’m not just going for funny one-liner,” said Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) at the conclusion of the July 15th Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies…

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