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Citizen Groups To Use Clean Water Act To Ensure BP Cleanup
Friday, 04 June 2010
Citizen Groups Announce First Suit To Enforce Federal Environmental Laws Directly Against BP
Gulf Restoration Network, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and Environment America Intend to Use Federal Clean Water Act to Force BP to Full Disclosure and Deployment of All Means Available to Clean Gulf Water

NEW ORLEANS - Local, state, and national environmental groups announced today that they intend to use the citizen enforcement provision of the federal Clean Water Act to sue BP in federal district court in New Orleans to force a more effective response to the ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf Restoration Network (GRN), the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN), and Environment America announced that last Friday they sent a formal notice letter alleging that BP is violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) by discharging millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf from the Deepwater Horizon drill site, by failing to accurately measure its plume and flow, and by failing to remove the oil from the waters on and within the Gulf of Mexico.   

"'Remove' does not mean hiding oil beneath the sea surface or leaving it to naturally decay.  Remove means take away.  If BP can remove oil from miles beneath the earth, under 5000 feet of water, it can remove oil plumes from the Gulf," said Joel Waltzer, one of the attorneys representing the environmental groups.
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Video Series on the Gulf Spill - Part 2: Wilma Subra
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
A special series of interviews and stories is being produced by the the renown filmmaker, writer and adventurer Jon Bowermaster .

This is the second episode in a 5-part series examining the human impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Video interviews have been excerpted from the documentary film SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories.

Gulf Stories - Part 2 - Wilma Subra from TakePart on Vimeo.

NEW IBERIA, Louisiana—Traveling around southern Louisiana with Wilma Subra can be both enlightening and depressing. A chemist by training and environmental activist by choice, on every corner, at every railroad crossing, each empty lot and even in the air she sees either a toxic wasteland or one on the verge.


 
Video Series on the Gulf Spill - Part 1: Marylee Orr
Saturday, 29 May 2010
A special series of interviews and stories is being produced by the the renown filmmaker, writer and adventurer Jon Bowermaster .

Part 1: Marylee Orr, founder of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, talks about how the spill has affected the residents of the Gulf Coast.

Gulf Stories - Part 1 - Marylee Orr from TakePart on Vimeo.

Marylee Orr, founder of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, talks about how the spill has affected the residents of the Gulf Coast.


 
Wilma Subra on Toxic America with Sanjay Gupta M.D. on CNN tomorrow June 2 at 7 p.m
Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Watch our very own Wilma Subra on Toxic America with Sanjay Gupta M.D. on CNN tomorrow June 2 at 7 p.m.!!

Environmental warrior takes on industry
By David S. Martin, Senior Medical Producer May 25, 2010 8:45 a.m. EDT

Chemist and environmentalist Wilma Subra 
collects a water sample

Chemist and environmental activist Wilma Subra collects a water sample in Gueydan, Louisiana.


New Iberia, Louisiana (CNN) -- Chemist Wilma Subra was working at her desk by a picture window one cool June evening in 2006 when the passenger in a passing car fired a single shot in her direction. The bullet lodged in a brick a few feet from where she was sitting.

Not your typical day at the office for a chemist, but Subra is not a typical chemist.
"I think they were just trying to scare me and get me to back off," says Subra, a soft-spoken grandmother who has made it her life's mission to help communities fight against chemical threats from industry.

Subra didn't quit. She moved her desk away from the window and went back to work. The gunman was never caught.

"I can't close up and not be out there," she says matter-of-factly.

"Out there" means traveling to communities across the country worried about pollution.

Is enough being done to protect us from chemicals that could harm us? Watch "Toxic America," a special two-night investigative report with Sanjay Gupta M.D., June 2 & 3 at 8 p.m. ET on CNN.

Mossville, Louisiana: 'Like an experiment'

"Communities need so much help, and you educate and empower them, and then they take on the fight and the issue. They just need that little bit of information to make them aware."
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BP Tells Fishermen Working On The Oil Spill That They Will Be Fired For Wearing A Respirator
Tuesday, 01 June 2010
We have had numerous fisherman, that have been hired through BP's Master Vessel Charter Agreement to work on the oil spill response, tell us that their BP "bosses" have told them that if they use a respirator or any safety equipment not provided by BP that they would be fired.

A Shrimp Boat Rigged Up To Skim Oil
A shrimp boat rigged up to skim oil from BP's oil spill. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ann Marie Gorden

Hundreds of fisherman have been hired to attach booms to their shrimp boats in place of nets and drive their boats directly through the oil slicks to corral and collect the oil that is spilling from BP's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico. These fisherman have one of the highest potentials for exposure to toxic air pollutants from the crude oil out of all of the responders working the spill. In addition to crude oil there is the added danger posed by the aerial application of dispersant chemicals and there have already been reports that fishermen working on the spill feel that they have been impacted by the dispersants.
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LEAN Adviser Observes EPA's Mobile Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer
Thursday, 27 May 2010
LEAN Adviser Observes Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer (TAGA) Mobile Monitoring in St. Bernard Parish, May 27, 2010


by Wilma Subra
Technical Adviser to Louisiana Environmental Action Network

On May 27, 2010, Louisiana Environmental Action Network was given the opportunity to observe the mobile monitoring being performed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with their Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer (TAGA) monitoring unit in St. Bernard parish. The TAGA is a Recreational Vehicle that has been repurposed as a mobile laboratory and outfitted with an array of environmental monitoring equipment. The TAGA was set up to monitor the air for the dispersants Corexit 9500 and 9527. Corexit 9500 and 9527 are being used in association with the Deepwater Horizon disaster to disperse the crude oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and the crude oil as it leaks from the well head 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

EPA's TAGA vehicle
EPA's TAGA Vehicle

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Top Kill Determined To Be Failure
Saturday, 29 May 2010
The Top Kill Has Failed

During a press conference on May 29, 2010 at 5:10 p.m. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles announced that the Top Kill will no longer be continued.

ROV video feed screen capture from May 29, 2010 at 4:10 p.m.
ROV Screen Capture form May 29 at 4:10p.m.

As can be seen in this Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) video feed screen capture taken at 4:10 p.m. today, May 29, 2010, a large plume of material continues to billow out of the end of the riser pipe.

U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry praised the cleanup effort and BP and the Coast Guard's success at "fighting the oil offshore."

BP's next move is to cut off the bent Riser Pipe and replace it with a "Lower Marine Riser Package Cap" (LMRP Cap).

Mr. Suttles stated that he believes that the LMRP Cap will capture "a great majority" of the flow but not all of it.

Adm. Landry stated that the ultimate solution remains the relief well. The relief well appears to be weeks away from completion.

Note: The relief well is not expected to be completed until sometime in August. At least 5 weeks from now.


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