Washington Post – Venice, La., is facing extinction. The small fishing community, located just 50 miles away from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, is in jeopardy, as the BP oil spill has put the livelihood of the residents in danger. The people of Venice are now left with a difficult choice. Do they stay and risk their health for the sake of their history and culture?
Celebrities ranging from Sandra Bullock to John Goodman are urging fans to sign a petition demanding Congress deliver long-term funding to restore the Gulf Coast following the devastating BP oil spill.
In this video, WKRG News 5 investigates the toxicity levels of local public beaches that have been populated with people swimming and children playing in the water in Alabama. Their search ends with some explosive results.
As someone’s hopefully told you, for the last month and a half a 2-foot-wide pipe in the Gulf of Mexico has been spewing oil to the tune of half a million gallons a day. We went down to Louisiana over Memorial Day to see some of the damage for ourselves.
Tests of the effectiveness of the A Whale oil skimmer in the Gulf of Mexico are inconclusive, a spokesman for the company that owns the huge converted cargo ship said Monday.
Yesterday, I contacted a friend of mine, C.S. Muncy, who is a photojournalist currently raising all kinds of hell down in southern Louisiana.
