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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 …
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Trump administration moves forward with federal layoffs after Supreme Court ruling

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Texas flooding puts scaled-back FEMA under scrutiny

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Texas flood disaster reveals rising human cost of climate-fueled extreme weather

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Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

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Scientists call on UN to adopt bold ocean policies to combat climate and biodiversity threats

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EU ocean protection plan draws fire for weak enforcement and lack of binding goals

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Trump’s NOAA nominee backs deep budget cuts amid rising disaster toll

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Democratic senator says fossil fuel lobbying has silenced climate action in Congress