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VIDEO: Hurricane Katrina Fifth Anniversary Gulf Oil Platform Explodes and Burns Off Louisiana Coast Hurricane Earl Threatens East Coast with Weekend Pounding | NOAA Maps Who Should the People of the Gulf Coast Trust for Payback? Plaquemines Parish President and Coast Guard Admiral Make Peace? Feinberg Says Many Oil Spill Claims Lacked Documentation Environmental Groups to Face Off Against Industry Groups in DC Obama Urges Middle East Leaders to Make Peace On the eve of the first direct Middle East peace negotiations since he took office, President Obama urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders Wednesday to seize "this moment of opportunity" and to end their decades-long conflict, pledging to throw his administration's "full weight" behind their effort to do so. Speaking in the Rose Garden after a day of preparatory meetings, Obama sternly addressed both parties and the region's Arab leaders, whom he scolded for endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state in principle while often doing little to help bring one about. But he said that, ultimately, only Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas could make the compromises necessary to secure peace between their peoples. The Poorest Nation's on Earth Also Tend to be the Most Religious Report Shows Number of Illegal Immigrants in U.S. Dropping A deep recession and tougher border enforcement have led to a sharp decline in the number of immigrants entering the United States illegally in the past five years, contributing to the first significant reversal in the growth of their numbers in two decades, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center. The number of illegal immigrants entering the United States plunged by almost two-thirds between 2005 and 2009, a dramatic shift after years of growth in the population. In the first half of the decade, an average of 850,000 people a year entered the United States without authorization. As the economy plunged into recession between 2007 and 2009, that number fell to 300,000. |
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Featured Original Stories, Photo Essays and Videos The Big Picture: The Five Stages of Grief on the Gulf Tests Show Gulf Water Unsafe Air Quality Along the Coast Raises Questions A Photo Essay From the Summer of Discontent Watchdogging BP Video: Oil Giant Restricts Press Access to Alabama Beach Where Oh Where Have All the Wildlife Gone? Under the Oil Pollution Act, passed in 1990 in the wake of the Valdez spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment was established by law to determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources, along with their human uses, that occur as a result of an oil spill. While it is still too early in the process to know what the scope of the assessment will be, from past experience, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is concerned about impacts to fish, shellfish, marine mammals, turtles, birds and other sensitive resources as well as their habitats, including wetlands, beaches, mudflats, bottom sediments, coral reefs -- and the water column itself.
Video: Gulf Restoration Tour Around Barataria Bay BP is Hiring Convict Labor in Beach Cleanup The British Petroleum corporation is hiring illegal immigrant convict labor to clean the beaches along the Gulf Coast instead of contracting with local fishermen who are out of work due to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as they promised publicly. In trying to use public relations to cover up the massive mess it's causing, BP officials are saying the company has hired unemployed workers to help with the beach cleanup effort here. Video: BP Hires Convict Labor in Beach Cleanup Gulf Communities Gear Up for Economic Impacts of Oil Spill BP's Oil Spill Will Have Major Environmental Impacts on the Gulf of Mexico
Interior Department Permitted Deep Horizon Without Impact Study Ken Salazar, a former Senator and Attorney General of Colorado, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 50th Secretary of the Interior on Jan. 20, 2009 by President Barack Obama. Less than three months later, on April 6, 2009, the British Petroleum company was granted a permit for the Deepwater Horizon, the deepest oil well ever dug in the Gulf of Mexico -- without an Environmental Impact Study as required by the National Environmental Policy Act. The Minerals Management Service, an agency of the Department of the Interior charged with regulating the oil and gas industry, has been ensconced in a ethics scandal in recent months for cozying up to the oil and gas industry. Allegations include financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct. The agency granted BP a "categorical exclusion" to NEPA on the basis of three reviews of the area, which concluded that a massive oil spill was "unlikely," according to government documents. Gulf Oil Slick One: A Glynn Wilson Video Interior Secretary Tours Wildlife Refuge | Photo Essay Political Justice Archives Siegelman-Scrushy Archives For the final two years of the Bush administration, we covered the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization anywhere. For scholars and others interested in researching the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, check out this archive and this archive. It goes even further back to the original Scrushy trial in Birmingham, which Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times. |
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