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National Wildlife Federation warns of continued pollution 2 years after Deepwater Horizon disaster listen
04/19/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP, BP oil spill, Gulf oil spill, Gulf oil disaster, Deepwater Horizon
Two years ago tomorrow the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and setting off the worst oil disaster in U.S. history.
The National Wildlife Federation has been studying the effects of the spill on plants, animals and ecosystems of the Gulf. Doug Inkley is their senior wildlife biol...
Be the first to commentTwo Views on the Environment from Writer/Sustainable Farmer Janisse Ray and the Tampa Bay Times Statewide Environmental Reporter Craig Pittman
02/21/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Janisse Ray, Craig Pittman, wetlands, sustainable farming, fish lesions, BP, orchid smuggling, oil drilling, Sunshine Skyway development
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up first today we'll talk with writer, poet and sustainable living proponent Janisse Ray, author of several books including ECOLOGY OF A CRACKER CHILDHOOD. She'll be speaking tonight at St. Leo University. And later in the program we'll hear from Craig Pittman who is one of the leading environmental journalists in the state. He's written several books including MANATEE INSANITY. We'll talk about some major environmental issues that...
Be the first to commentIs oil leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf?
09/01/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP, Oil slick, Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon, Press-Register, wmnf, Mark Ferrulo, Progress Florida
The Mobile Press Register newspaper reported last week that:
Be the first to comment"Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.
"The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about a mile from the well site on Tuesday and provided them to Ed Overton and Scott Miles, chemists with Louisiana State University.
"The pair did much o...
Listen to deposition by former BP chief that judge ordered off the web listen
07/06/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil disaster, BP, BP oil spill, Gulf Oil Disaster, Gulf Oil Spill, Tony Hayward, YouTube
Former BP chief Tony Hayward gave a video-taped deposition last month. It concerns ongoing litigation related to last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. On Tuesday a judge ordered that video clips be removed from two Internet sites.
The order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan says the clips were posted on YouTube.com and TheDaily.com, an online newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The judge said release of the video may violate...
Be the first to commentNelson gets barrage of bin Laden questions, but won't describe graphic corpse photos listen
05/13/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Osama bin Laden, Bill Nelson, Ron Paul, BP
It’s been a busy week in national politics. Lawmakers grilled fossil fuel executives on Capitol Hill, Republicans Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich announced their presidential runs, and questions continue to follow in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death. A US Senator facing a tougher-than-normal reelection bid stopped by in the Tampa Bay area today, and commented on a range of topics – though there was one thing on which he wouldn’t comment.
At a Lakeland press conference, upon the request of se...
Be the first to commentThe BP disaster and rising gasoline prices: Tyson Slocum says oil companies should not be trusted
04/20/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP, Gulf of Mexico, oil companies, regulation, Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen
Good morning, one year ago the BP oil disaster began. Joining us now is Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program. Yesterday he said:
Be the first to comment"On Wednesday, 365 days will have passed since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig triggered the worst environmental disaster our country has ever seen.
"For 87 of those days, we watched helplessly as the government, BP and countless contractors failed to stop the oil from gushing into the Gulf of Me...
Rep. Castor gets update on Gulf oil spill's economic, environmental impacts listen
04/19/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Kathy Castor, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf oil disaster, BP, oil spill
Tomorrow marks one year since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven and causing untold economic and environmental havoc. Today, Democratic US Representative Kathy Castor convened a panel of stakeholders to assess the disaster’s impacts one year on. The group of hoteliers, seafood industry leaders and environmentalists said there’ve been some ups and downs. One key problem, they said, is perception – even though Pinellas County Beaches never go...
Be the first to commentGulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force gets citizen input in Sarasota listen
04/19/11 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP, oil spill, Gulf oil disaster, Sarasota, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force is gathering input about how the Gulf of Mexico should be restored after last year’s oil disaster. Last night in Sarasota, the task force organized a listening session to hear concerns and recommendations from citizens.
More than 44 million people live in states along the Gulf of Mexico and many of them depend on the Gulf for their income. Even before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the coastal marsh in the Gulf region was disappearing at an...
Be the first to commentOn Radioactivity today: The BP disaster: should our Governor start legal action against the companies involved? And where do our federal income taxes go?
04/18/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: BP, Steve Yerrid, Jo Commerford, federal income taxes, military spending, national priorities project, oil spill
Coming up today we'll hear from local attorney Steve Yerrid who says the state of Florida needs to be more aggressive in pursuing legal action against those who are responsible for the BP oil disaster. Yerrid had been an advisor to former Governor Charlie Crist for legal claims involving the BP blowout. He worked pro bono. But since Governor Rick Scott has taken over the reigns of power Yerrid has had no communication with the new administration. Yerrid and his team devoted more than 1,000 ...
1 commentsEnvironmentalists are still concerned about oil disaster impacts listen
04/18/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: BP oil disaster, NOAA, Gulf of Mexico, Florida, USF, Gulf Restoration Network, oil spill, BP
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon well blowout in the Gulf. Many officials are touting a swift environmental recovery, but environmentalists see alarming signs that Gulf of Mexico is far from healthy.
It’s been more than nine months since gushing oil well in the gulf was permanently capped. The worst human-caused environmental disaster in US history may no longer be daily fodder for front page news, but scientists and environmental groups say the disaster is...
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