UT-Designed Tech Could Revolutionize Oil Spill Cleanup

Researchers achieved over 99% oil-water separation

"...used to combat the extreme environmental toll of major oil spills, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin..."

Sept. 6, 2023 News Post by Oscar Rodriguez

Cleaning Up BP Facts

"...the horror of inmates working to clean up the oil spill. How terrible that imprisoned members of our society..."

Aug. 25, 2010 Postmarks

SXSW Interview: Margaret Brown

We're all connected through the Great Invisible

"...When the explosion on the Deep Water Horizon oil drilling platform happened in April of 2010, causing the..."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

Seeing the Invisible

Margaret Brown dives headfirst into the BP Gulf oil tragedy

"...Batre, Ala., is there informing folks affected by the BP oil spill about an upcoming community meeting with an..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

BPness: A Line in the Sand

Notes from Kate's trip thru Lafourche Parish to Grand Isle, LA., Part 1.

"...about what's happening on the coast during this insane oil spill tragedy...."

June 25, 2010 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer

Safer Drilling? Whoda Thunk?

Perry's project seems too little, too late

"...forming a new body to look into preventing future oil disasters. The Gulf Project will bring together academic researchers,..."

July 6, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Black Gold Disco

Three local music benefits for the Gulf Coast

"...have finally been fixed, but the effects of the BP’s oil spill will linger for years to come. Here..."

July 23, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

BPness, Part 2: A (Long) Line (of Boom) in the Sand

Notes from Kate's trip thru Lafourche Parish to Grand Isle, LA., Part 2.

"...to learn firsthand about what's happening during this insane oil spill tragedy: Part two...."

June 25, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

The Great Invisible

Doc looks at the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the lives of residents in the Gulf area.

"...solemnly recounts the catastrophic consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast in the spring..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Keeping Busy

Armendariz moves from the EPA to the Sierra Club, still defending the environment

"...clean air, clean water, safe drinking water, hazardous waste, oil spill response. Our region is highly industrialized; it has..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

News Roundup: Death and Lawsuits

Ken Paxton has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

"...an ethics complaint and a fraud investigation (from Houston!); BP agrees to pay damages to Gulf states for the..."

July 6, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

The Photograph

Get ready for romance with this Valentine’s release about family secrets

"...Orleans and the impact of multiple hurricanes and the BP oil spill on the economy and culture. He starts..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

BPness: Louisiana's Beleaguered Coast

A snapshot of life since the spill

"...La., for years buoyed by the commercial fishing and oil industries, finds itself between a fish and a slick..."

June 25, 2010 News Feature by Kate X Messer

It's Nice To Car Share

The more hands on the wheel, the merrier

"...Highway 1 to witness the effects of the horrific BP oil spill, the folly of my own excess hit..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Feature by Kate X Messer

'At Any Price' and 'The East' Ask for Answers

Occupy Wall Street, capitalism, and SXSW Film

"...[Editor's Note: Light spoilers below.]..."

March 18, 2013 SXSW Post by Brandon Ney

TV Eye: The Axe Drops

Why isn't the new fall TV season working?

"...unemployment, the aftereffects of the Wall Street debacle, the BP oil spill in the Gulf, disenchantment with a formerly..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

GP Crush of the Week: Anderson Cooper

He's cable's hunky silver-haired fox, but that's not why we love him.

"...to the Gulf Coast to broadcast live from the BP oil spill?..."

Sept. 30, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

2010 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival

OOB dishes up a feast of funny after a summer starved for laughs

"...hasn't been a big one for laughs. Between the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the floods..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Armendariz to Texas: Don't Make Me Federalize

EPA chief says he's prepared to take over state permitting process

"...called from the Gulf Coast, where he's working the BP oil spill, about his plans to make Texas comply..."

June 4, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Armendariz: Don't Make Me Federalize

EPA regional chief warns TCEQ

"...called from the Gulf Coast, where he's working the BP oil spill, about his plans to make Texas comply..."

June 1, 2010 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Luv Doc Recommends: Red Hot 2010

Oilcan's, Friday, July 16, 2010

"...The oil business has been getting an especially bad rap recently,..."

July 16, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

What We Talk About When We Talk About Debt

Jennifer Baichwal adapts to screen Margaret Atwood's ideas about indebtedness

"...Atwood's themes – the inter-family Albanian blood feud, the BP Gulf oil spill, the exploited Florida farmworkers – contained..."

June 8, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Hightower Report

Marooned on BP Island; and Dems Cave on Disclosure

"...Marooned on BP Island..."

July 9, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Lowdown

Bush's insane energy policy, Greenwashing on Earth Day, and the Washington Legal Foundation moves in on the White House

"...the stops, he cries, demanding that Congress let Big Oil punch holes and build pipelines in the pristine Arctic..."

April 20, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Watch Out for Superweeds; and Let's Try Good Government

"...ironic justice, try this morsel: On the day that BP's Gulf oil rig blew up, seven of the corporation's..."

May 28, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Billion Dollar Tax Loophole; and Oil Spill Blame Game

"...tax bills like the rest of us Americans do. Oil Spill Blame Game..."

May 21, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Katrina Trailers Attack; and Averting the 'Long Depression'

"...as housing for workers involved in the cleanup of BP's oil disaster. Yes, many of the trailers still reek..."

July 23, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Top 10 Environmental Stories

An oil spill and a water treatment plant top the list

"...1) BP'S BLOWOUT Although the Texas coast escaped relatively unscathed, the..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Point Austin: Catch-2010

The ledger on Barack Obama features plenty of black eyes and feathers

"...in the air and the Gulf steadily filling with oil slurry, this seems like a good moment to reread..."

July 9, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...over TxDOT's expansion of Hwy. 290/71 through Oak Hill spilled into the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's Transportation Policy..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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