GULF OIL DISASTER
Gulf oil spill report warning: US must watch offshore drilling more closely
What a milktoast headline! Seriously, "Watch Offshore Drilling More Closely"??
Did We Learn Anything From the BP Oil Spill?
"The report [...] contains a long list of advice for the oil industry and federal regulators about how to avert a future catastrophe. But many of the commission's recommendations require action from Congress—and given the current political climate, those changes might be hard to make for at least the next two years."
National Oil Spill Commission Finds Right Problems, Issues Wrong Solutions
Pallone Reiterates Need for Permanent Offshore Drilling Ban in Light of Administration Report
"Representative Frank Pallone (NJ-06) Tuesday reintroduced the No New Drilling Act in light of the National Commission on BP report that concludes we are still vulnerable to another major oil spill. A key finding in the report concludes that the proper safety precautions and oversight is still not in place to prevent another spill."
After the Great Spill: How the Gulf Cleaned Itself (TIME Magazine)
ALABAMA
Clean up of Alabama beaches is back in full force (includes video)
http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/cleaning-it-up-surf-and-sand/1203704/Jan-04-2011_6-27-pm/
"...as more tar balls continue to wash up the concern shifts to the oil that is still in the water. The tar balls that are washing up now and will continue to wash up are from oil that is still offshore and what's out there will eventually end up on the beach. "It is a great concern of ours that we're going to have to be dealing with recurrent tar balls washing up on the beach and it just seems like they've been dragging their feet in dealing with the tar mats in the surf zone." Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon says it is a process that should have happened simultaneously with the beach clean up."
CALIFORNIA
Thompson reintroduces bill to permanently ban drilling on North Coast
LOUISIANA
Louisiana officials: Parts of coastline still heavily oiled (includes video)
"When the tide is out ... you can see thick oil onto the water for 30, 40 feet out," the parish president said. "There's been no mechanism to clean that up thus far."
MISSISSIPPI
