Washington D.C. – Deal tying BP oil spill fines to transportation bill getting close – NOLA.com
WASHINGTON — Senate and House negotiators are nearing agreement on a two-year transportation bill that includes key components of legislation that would funnel billions of dollars in fines from the…
Florida – BP cash to revamp beach dunes and boat ramps – Pensacola News Journal
Two years after the BP oil slicked local beaches and ruined tourism, construction is set to begin on the first of two major projects in Escambia County to help restore…
Louisiana – BP oil spill disrupted microbes on Gulf Coast beaches, new research shows – NOLA.com
Communities of microbial organisms – including nematode worms, single cell animals called protists, and a variety of fungi – that live in the sediment of beaches on Grand Isle, Dauphin…
Alabama – Restore Act efforts continue – Brewton Standard
More than two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill racked our region, community leaders and environmental groups are still united behind the need to pass legislation to address the…
Florida – UWF: Most oil from BP spill gone from Gulf along Panhandle – Pensacola Business Journal
Two years after tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon oil well explosion began washing up on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key, there’s good news: Most of the oil is gone…
Florida – Gulf Coast coalition urges Congress to pass RESTORE Act – al.com (blog)
A coalition of more than 100 leaders of Gulf Coast cities, municipalities, economic development organizations and chambers of commerce have sent a joint letter to Congress, urging them to pass…
Gulf of Mexico – Snapper born during the oil spill are adults now. How many survived? – al.com (blog)
MOBILE, Alabama — Red snapper born during the BP oil spill two years ago will be reaching legal harvest size right about now, just in time for the opening of…
Louisiana – Regulators to test anti-spill equipment in Gulf – Palm Beach Post
NEW ORLEANS — An oil spill consortium set up after the BP spill to develop methods for containing deep sea spills will do a drill with its state-of-the-art equipment this…
Louisiana – Lingering oil complicates restoration – dailycomet.com
A long-awaited restoration project aimed at rebuilding rapidly eroding shoreline at Fourchon Beach is moving forward. But the project comes as active oil cleanup is still taking place on the…
Carribean – Oil well in Cuba comes up dry, raises questions about future exploration – MiamiHerald.com
Cuba’s dreams of an oil bonanza suffered a tough but possibly temporary setback Friday when the Spanish Repsol company confirmed it hit a dry hole when it drilled a well…
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