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St. Pete Times environmental reporter Craig Pittman on the BP oil disaster

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Tags: BP oil disastter, Sea Turtles, manatees, pelicans, oil-eating bacteria

BP's outgoing Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward said today that the Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster represents a failure for the entire deep water oil and gas drilling industry, not just for BP alone.

Hayward told investment professionals in a web cast (and quoted by CNN), "The industry needs to re-evaluate safety". His comments came after the BP board announced it would replace him October 1 with Robert Dudley, the head of the company's U.S. Gulf cleanup effort.

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Manatees dying seven times more than sustainable level listen

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Tags: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, stock assessment report, Center for Biological Diversity, manatees

A Federal report shows that the Florida manatee death rate is seven times the sustainable level. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service released their stock assessment report on manatees, which says that boat collisions account for the vast majority of manatee deaths.

In 2007 The Center for Biological Diversity sued U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for not releasing a [stock assessment report](http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/Manatee/SARS/2...