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New Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution

Sometimes a name can tell you a lot. In the past, I've told you about my enthusiastic support for a New Orleans group, active on Facebook and the Internet, that's called "Hear the Music, Stop the...

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The sinkhole keeps getting bigger, and so do the lies of Texas Brine Co.

The crisis involving the Bayou Corne sinkhole in Louisiana just doesn't stop. In what's becoming an almost daily headline, the sinkhole grew again, swallowing up more trees and even part of an access...

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Torn on the bayou: Sinkhole keeps getting bigger, more dangerous

A lot has happened over the last few weeks. In the political world, the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sees a new kerfuffle every few hours. Down here in Louisiana, we've been...

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A temporary reprieve from Shell’s risky and reckless Arctic drilling scheme

For the last couple of weeks, we've been consumed with the never-ending fallout from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. Some 29 months after the explosion that killed 11 people and spewed 5 million...

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Louisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac

In recent months, I've joined with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and others in calling for the state's Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to be stripped of its powers and for the federal...

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Now, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR

You've got to say this about British Petroleum -- they have some nerve. For more than two years, we've been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the sick and...

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We object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”

The last couple of weeks have brought a lot of news – both good and bad – down here to the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaac was a double whammy; the storm itself destroyed homes and upended people’s lives,...

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Louisiana unloads and blows giant hole in BP settlement

For the last 29 months, I've been chronicling the widespread and still-very-much-ongoing fallout from BP's gross negligence -- "a corporate culture of recklessness," as U.S. government lawyers called...

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Breaking: Spill settlement unraveling as Halliburton slams deal; BP stock...

BP's $8.7 billion attempt to put the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill behind it continues to come undone. In the latest unraveling of the oil giant's proposed settlement with thousands of Gulf residents...

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Worst fears about BP oil washing ashore after Isaac are coming true

Last week, I reported on this blog there were early indications that Hurricane Isaac had indeed whipped up some of as much as 1 million gallons of BP's spill oil that remain in the Gulf, assaulting...

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Bombshell: Feds slam BP in key court filing, admit pollution from 2010 spill...

In a bombshell federal court filing, U.S. government lawyers are slamming British Petroleum for making false and misleading statements that seek to both dodge blame for 2010's Deepwater Horizon...

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BP cleanup crews spotted as Isaac stirs up oil, bad memories

For residents of the battered Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac didn't just bring sheets of rain, pummeling winds, and a powerful storm surge. The slow moving, deceptively destructive Category 1 hurricane...

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Isaac likely to bring grim, oily reminders of 2010 BP spill to Gulf coastline

Tropical Storm Isaac is bearing down on the Louisiana coast and is likely to become a hurricane later today, before making landfall somewhere close to New Orleans. This is not good news for either my...

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Update: Expert says Louisiana officials “in denial” over radium risk at sinkhole

A veteran radiation expert says Louisiana environmental officials are "in denial" over the hazard posed by elevated radium levels discovered in the slurry liquids of the massive sinkhole that has...

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Threat to Bayou Corne grows as tests show elevated levels of radium, butane...

Elevated levels of radium in the water and tests showing airborne indicators of butane -- the highly explosive fuel stored in a nearby cavern -- are two alarming signs that the environmental...

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UPDATE: Sinkhole crisis worsens, 2 workers rescued, town braces for possible...

The nightmare in Bayou Corne -- the besieged small town in southeastern Louisiana coping with the effects of a massive sinkhole, compounded by the incompetence of state bureaucrats -- keeps getting...

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Disappearing La. speckled trout another blow to BP’s Big Lie

You can add speckled trout to the list. Over the last several months, I've told you about all kinds of reports about serious problems to both the safety and available of Gulf seafood. Eyeless shrimp....

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Incompetent Louisiana regulators knew of risk at sinkhole site since early 2011

It's hard to know which is the worst thing about the ongoing environmental nightmare in the southeastern Louisiana community of Bayou Corne, where a massive sinkhole has forced an evacuation after...

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If another major pipeline spill doesn’t convince them to kill Keystone XL,...

When will America ever learn? Industry and some government officials -- helped sometimes by mixed signals from the Obama administration -- continue to push for the Keystone XL pipeline to run across...

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Louisiana covers up risk to Bayou town from sinkhole, massive methane leak

Here we go again. Once again, a  corner of Louisiana is under an environmental assault, threatening both the health and the immediate safety of local residents. Once again, the cause appears to be the...

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