It has been almost a decade since the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. Described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil oozed into the Gulf of Mexico, severely degrading the marine ecosystem immediately surrounding the spill site and directly impacting coastal habitats along 1,773 kilometers of shoreline. […]
Authorities in Seattle reported that a man thought to be suicidal stole a Horizon Air aircraft from the SeaTac Airport at approximately 8 pm and took off, performed aerobatic maneuvers with the passenger aircraft before intentionally crashing the aircraft on Ketron Island in south Puget Sound on Friday evening. The man, reported to be a ground […]
NEW ORLEANS— The Trump administration is ignoring advice from the bipartisan commission that investigated the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster as officials move to repeal offshore drilling safety regulations adopted in its aftermath. Read the full article at ACID Society
In a new study, they also detailed how remnants of the oil, black carbon from burning oil slicks and contaminants from drilling mud combined with microscopic algae and other marine debris to descend in a “dirty blizzard” to the seafloor. The work, published May 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirms […]