Gulf oil Disaster

A federal grand jury on Friday charged former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin with 21 counts of public corruption, including bribery and fraud related to his dealings with city vendors following the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster.
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An "unidentified substance inconsistent with oil" is emitting from several areas of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig wreckage
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A well connected to an oil and gas production platform caught on fire Thursday. Despite earlier reports, there is no evidence of an oil sheen. The vessel the Vermilion Oil Rig 380 was engulfed in flames
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Red tide, an algae bloom toxic to shellfish and fin fish, is already rampant in the waters off the South Fork of Long Island, having reappeared for the sixth year in a row and over a month earlier than years past, according to Stony Brook Southampton professor Dr. Chris Gobler and Peconic Baykeeper Kevin...
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Growth Energy has joined forces with Gulf Oil to provide high level blends of ethanol in Long Island. Gulf has opened four E85 stations, a combination of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, as part of Growth Energy’s 2010 E85 and blender pump program.
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On Aug. 5, in Port St. Joe, Florida, city officials closed a public boat ramp following an unexplained fish kill in St. Joseph’s Bay that caused hundreds of dead fish and crabs to wash ashore. Witnesses sighted a brown, sludgy material roughly six miles offshore.
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Death of sea creatures growing at an alarming rate and officials are baffled as to the cause. Millions of dead fish are washing ashore, possibly as a result of low dissolved oxygen levels in the water caused by hot summer temperatures or possibly a sign of major trouble ahead.
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Dead creatures of the sea are washing ashore up and down the east coast of the United States as officials scramble to find a cause. Hundreds of thousands of dead fish are washing ashore, possibly as a result of low dissolved oxygen levels in the water caused by hot summer temperatures.
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Waterborne chemicals leached from plastics and detergents, including bisphenol A (BPA), may have contributed to significant lobster die-offs in the waters of Long Island Sound over the last decade, researchers say.
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On Monday, beach residents awoke to a foul smell when thousands of dead fish washed ashore on a small island on the east side of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, CNN reports.
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