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Search results for "Gulf of Mexico" ...
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Drilling Down
After covering the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Ian Urbina and his editors were struck by a simple question: The Gulf spill highlighted the weaknesses in oversight of offshore drilling, are there any weaknesses worth investigating in the regulation of onshore drilling?
Tags: BP Oil Spill; Gulf Oil Spill; onshore drilling; offshore drilling
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Renegade Refinery
Just weeks after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, an analysis of inspection data obtained from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that two oil refineries owned by BP accounted for a staggering 97 of the most flagrant violations found by OSHA inspectors. Most of these citation's were categorized as "egregiously willful."
Tags: Deepwater Horizon; BP; oil spill; OSHA; Gulf of Mexico
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Net Gains and Losses
The largest commercial harvester of menhaden, an obscure fish used for fishmeal and fertilizer, may be wiping out the fish to extinction.
Tags: fish; overfishing; Omega Protein; menhaden; Gulf of Mexico
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Windfall
The Department of the Interior, "particularly under the Bush Administration," has let energy companies neglect paying billions of dollars to the government "for oil and natural gas they pump on federal land and federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico." Over the course of a year, the Times reported the various aspects of this story, resulting in five investigations by the inspector general, including two inquiries involving the Justice Department.
Tags: Oil; natural gas; energy; royalty relief; Interior Department; gas pumped on federal land
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Hurricane Coverage
Substandard and poorly enforced building codes led to houses that were unsafe during hurricanes in Mobile, Alabama. Gaps were also found in the county's evacuation plan and in the sturdiness of oil rigs constructed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tags: hurricane; oil rigs; gas rigs; building codes; Hurricane Katrina
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Deep Trouble: The Gulf in Peril
This investigation examines the terrible condition of the Gulf of Mexico. From fish kills to agricultural runoff to industrial pollution, the mounting problems threaten to devastate the region's economy, environmental health and quality of life.
Tags: FOIA; pollution; environmental reporting
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Troubled Water
This investigation by reporters at the Columbia Daily Tribune discovers the truth about the dangers of recreational boating at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks. During the course of the investigation, the Tribune discovered that the Lake of the Ozarks is the third most dangerous body of water in the country, worse than that of the Pacific Coast and Gulf of Mexico.
Tags: Missouri State Water Patrol; Lake of the Ozarks; United States Coast Guard
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Boom on the beach
This USA Today series analyzes the economic growth and development along East and Gulf Coasts and draws the conclusion that "41 million people - more than one in seven Americans - live in a county on the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico." The analysis of population and demographic trends, and building permits, finds that "coastal counties are growing significantly faster than the rest of the country in population, employment and gross domestic product." The boom among 100 coastal counties is illustrated with maps, graphics and tables. The series reveals that in spite of multiple natural threats - like long-term hurricane risk, rising sea level, fragile sands and erosion - "growth pressure keeps building" and "all levels of government foster this amenity-driven, middle-class lifestyle..."
Tags: Database Mapping Project; population; economic growth; hurricanes; construction; migration; housing; employment; demographics; database mapping project
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Oceans of trouble: Are the world's fisheries doomed?
More fishing boats harvest the world's oceans than at any time in history. But, as the Times-Picayune points out, their best catch is seven years gone. Besieged by exploding demand, beset by over-fishing, devastated by destruction of life-giving coastal wetlands, the world's oceans have reached their limit.
Tags: CAR; Gulf of Mexico; Pollution; Commerce Committee Magnuson Act; Shrimp
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The Times-Picayne reports on the troubled state of the world's oceans. Besieged by exploding demand, beset by overfishing, devastated by destruction of life-giving coastal wetlands, the oceans have reached their limit. Drastic measures might turn the tide. Anything less, and the fishing way of life that is so much a part of Louisiana almost certainly will not survive. (March 24 - 31, 1996)