Oil Spill Fun Facts

"...Dear Editor, Oil spill fun facts: The rate of spillage in the..."

June 24, 2010 Postmarks

Oil!

Steve Forbert's black gold lament

"...what is Forbert’s longest living and breathing song, “The Oil Song.”..."

Aug. 5, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Human Hair in Nylon Socks to Soak Up Oil?

"...using human hair in nylon socks to soak up oil spills. It appears all attempts at containment and stoppage..."

May 5, 2010 Postmarks

Government Should Drill for Oil

"...11]: We have a shitload of land allocated for oil production. The oil companies have not started drilling on..."

July 14, 2008 Postmarks

Who's Responsible for the Littlefield Spill?

City and state hunting through archives to work out who will foot bill

"...would be digging deep to pay to clean Jan­u­ary's oil leak out of Waller Creek. But now, in 2008,..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

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

Black Gold Disco

Three local music benefits for the Gulf Coast

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

July 23, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

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

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

Seeing the Invisible

Margaret Brown dives headfirst into the BP Gulf oil tragedy

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

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature 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

News Roundup: Death and Lawsuits

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

"...to pay damages to Gulf states for the 2010 oil spill; and more...."

July 6, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Debt

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

"...– the inter-family Albanian blood feud, the BP Gulf oil spill, the exploited Florida farmworkers – contained in the..."

June 8, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Naked City

"...attorney general to force the cleanup of a decades-old oil spill beneath Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood. The spill, estimated at..."

March 2, 2007 News Feature

The Hightower Report

Come On, Congress, Get Some Gumption; and No Punishment for Exxon Malfeasance?

"...aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history...."

March 28, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

"...Randolph's goddaughter, some of “the bad guys” cause an oil spill to happen. The whales musts be saved from..."

July 21, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'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

Take Shelter

Is Curtis LaForche slowly going mad or is something apocalyptic about to happen? Michael Shannon stars in this truly unsettling movie.

"...begins to fall, it has the consistency of motor oil. It’s just one of the many troubling sensations Curtis..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reality Pipes: Keystone Project Kicks Up Sand

Will Obama give oil pipeline the green light?

"...and a coast still recovering from the worst offshore oil spill in history, it might seem inconceivable that the..."

Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

The Photograph

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

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

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Environmental Stories

An oil spill and a water treatment plant top the list

"...relatively unscathed, the 2010 summer was blackened by an oil spill that surged through the rest of the Gulf..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Event Menu

Why whine about the Gulf when you can wine and dine to help?

"...support of the Greater New Orleans Foundation Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund (www.gnof.org) and the Gulf Restoration Network (www.healthygulf.org)..."

July 23, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Eco-Currents

A green (and blue and brown) grab bag of enviro tids and bits

"...Oil spill got you down? As the ladies' magazines will..."

May 14, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Reports Detail Threats to National Wildlife Refuges

Energy exploration endangers refuges, including ones in Texas

"...McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge, at risk thanks to large-scale oil and gas exploration, protects the state's largest freshwater marsh..."

Oct. 14, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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

Formula One: Last Gasp

"...announcement of the F1 racetrack in the foreground, the oil spill continuing to destroy the Gulf of Mexico and..."

May 26, 2010 Postmarks

Revealing The Great Invisible

Filmmaker Margaret Brown dives into the wreckage of the area residents' lives following the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico

"...region most immediately affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010. Austin, of course, is only one..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

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