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Ten years after Deepwater Horizon, worries remain

Ten years after Deepwater Horizon, worries remain

Efforts to clean up the lingering effects of the oil spill are well underway, but secrecy and deregulation have returned to the Gulf, raising the specter of a repeat.

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Deepwater BP spill: Sick fish, Gulf pollution, and human health problems
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A decade after the BP oil spill: Sick fish, Gulf pollution, and human health problems

On March 31, 2010, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich visited St. Petersburg’s Vinoy hotel to give a speech where he talked about how safe offshore oil drilling was. He was touting his book, Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less. On that same day, then-President Barack Obama announced he would open a lot of the nation’s …
ORIGINAL REPORTING
The Magdalena River in Colombia with a small tour boat on its banks and a sunset and trees in background.

Colombia’s largest oil company accused of hiding environmental damage

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Alexandria's fishing families stay put as seas rise around them

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Ecuador must expand protections for isolated Indigenous groups after court ruling

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

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Volunteers scramble to rescue federal environmental data as Trump administration pulls it offline

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Melting glaciers put global food and water systems at risk