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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette October 17, 2017 By Nico Grant / Bloomberg News An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig and killed 11 people. LLOG Exploration reported about 7,950 to 9,350 barrels of […]

Charleston Post and Courier October 19, 2017 Despite nearly universal opposition to offshore drilling among coastal South Carolina residents and their elected representatives, state Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, R-Murrell’s Inlet, recently told a congressional panel that Georgetown would be an ideal spot for the oil industry to build the infrastructure needed to support offshore rigs. That’s […]

Myrtle Beach Sun News October 11, 2017 By Audrey Hudson Activists who oppose offshore drilling and seismic testing gathered at Plyler Park in May for the Hands Across the Sand event sponsored in Myrtle Beach by SODA and the Grand Strand Surfrider Foundation. Matt Silfer for The Sun News. Testifying before a congressional panel on Wednesday, […]

Southern New Jersey Development Council October 6, 2017 The European energy company developing a wind farm 10 miles off Atlantic City is exiting the fossil-fuels business and going all-in on sustainable energy. The Atlantic City project is on track to open between 2020 and 2025, said Thomas Brostrom, president of North American operations for the […]

“We haven’t seen this level of mortality in right whales since we stopped whaling them” in coastal New England in the 1700s The New York Times October 2, 2017 By KAREN WEINTRAUB MOUNT DESERT ROCK, Me. — From the top of the six-story lighthouse, water stretches beyond the horizon in every direction. A foghorn bleats […]

Back in June I wrote a blog, French Seismic Company Files for Bankruptcy. Needs Permit to Blast the Atlantic for New Revenue,  about one of the seismic testing companies wanting to airgun blast the Atlantic to look for possible oil deposits below the ocean floor. A new story in The Revelator gives more background about […]

September 7, 2017 Watch video I thank the gentlemen and I want to make clear that I am offering this amendment on behalf of Frank LoBiondo, who I know who has worked with my colleague Don Byer from Virginia on this by partisan measure. I think it when to make sense that it would quite […]

Myrtle Beach Sun News September 9, 2017 Offshore oil drilling and exploration is overwhelmingly opposed along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, including off South Carolina, and the opposition has become increasingly bipartisan. S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster joined fellow Republican governors of Maryland and New Jersey and Democratic governors of North Carolina and Delaware in opposing the […]

The Washington Post August 29, 2017 ExxonMobil refineries are damaged in Hurricane Harvey, releasing hazardous pollutants By Steven Mufson ExxonMobil acknowledged Tuesday that Hurricane Harvey damaged two of its refineries, causing the release of hazardous pollutants. The acknowledgment, in a regulatory filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, follows repeated complaints on Twitter of an […]