Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | Post a comment

Dr. Brian Stacy, a veterinary pathologist who works for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is conducting necropsies on sea turtles found dead in the Gulf of Mexico, to begin the process of determining what killed them.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle lay belly-up on the metal autopsy table, as pallid as split-pea soup but for the bright orange X spray-painted on its shell, proof that it had been counted as part of the Gulf of Mexico’s continuing “unusual mortality event.â€
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Monday, June 21st, 2010 | 3 comments

Excess gas is burned at the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico (Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles TImes / June 21, 2010)
A House member questions BP’s honesty about how much crude could leak in a worst-case scenario.
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 | 2 comments

At least 5,000 barrels of oil have been spewing out daily
Oil firm BP may be “pushed out of the way” if it fails to perform in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster clean-up, a top US official has warned.
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