WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 27, 2010—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today announced that a coordinated effort with landowners across eight states to protect and feed birds migrating toward the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill zone in the Gulf of Mexico had more than tripled expectations, enrolling more than 470,000 acres. [Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2010.  NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 7,037 square miles of Gulf waters about 80 nautical miles south of the Florida panhandle, between the Florida-Alabama state line and Cape San Blas, Fla. This is the tenth reopening in federal waters since July 22. This reopening[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2010.  Scientists from NOAA, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Audubon Nature Institute joined with Coast Guard Rear Admiral Roy A. Nash today to return 33 sea turtles to Gulf of Mexico waters offshore of Louisiana. This is the first release of rehabilitated sea[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20 marks six months since BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded, killing eleven workers and sending millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Following the disaster, the Sierra Club reached out to hundreds of thousands of citizens, who called on our leaders to prevent future[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 15, 2010.  NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 6,879 square miles of Gulf waters about 180-200 nautical miles south of the Florida panhandle, between the Florida-Alabama state line and Cape San Blas, Fla. This is the ninth reopening in federal waters since July 22. This reopening was[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2010.  Residual oil and chemicals from BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster pose substantial ongoing risks to birds that breed or nest along hard-hit areas of the Louisiana coast, according to new National Audubon Society field surveys. Audubon science teams found plentiful birds that appeared both resilient and loyal[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2010.  The Obama Administration today sent a seventh bill for $62.6 million to BP and other named responsible parties for response and recovery operations relating to the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. To date, the Administration has sent these seven bills to BP and other responsible parties (Transocean, MOEX,[Read More…]

NEW ORLEANS–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 13, 2010.  The following information is an operations update from the Unified Area Command for the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Approximately 16,292 personnel are currently responding to protect the shoreline, wildlife and cleanup vital coastlines. To date, more than 31,000 water and sediment samples have[Read More…]

GULF COAST–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2010.   Paul Zukunft:     Well good morning, this is Admiral Paul Zukunft, and today is the 176th day of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response, in fact, a week from today, we will hit the six-month milestone. Also in the next day or two, we’ll hit the three-month[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2010.  “NOAA produced a report at the request of the Unified Command to project the most likely movement of oil.  As part of its function to coordinate and review all interagency materials developed in response to the BP oil spill, OMB led a review of a preliminary[Read More…]