"Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America" [1]
Information sessions and webinars on possible health and environmental effects of aerial-applied chemicals used to fight wildfires will be held in various locations around the country during the 45-day public comment period that ends June 27, 2011.
The event will cover everything from the Gulf of Mexico's struggle to recover from the BP oil spill to protection of over-exploited commercial fish stocks … to ocean acidification, marine protected areas, offshore energy, and coastal ecosystem restoration.
The Bureau of Reclamation report says major changes often are expected, with the magnitude varying substantially by location. The data and information provided allow you to dig into the details to some degree for the watersheds of interest to your audience.
Public meetings in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming from April 26 to May 5, 2011 will likely be newsy events, with advocates and critics representing industry, environmentalists, local governments, and other interested groups and individuals voicing their opinions.
Denial of news media access to Gulf beaches has been an issue since the Deepwater Horizon disaster. There's tussling over access to (and interpretation of) scientific information on possible impacts of the spill on the Gulf ecosystem. And The Guardian obtained >30,000 pages of BP in-house memos FOIA'd by Greenpeace, which suggest BP was working hard to influence the results of the research it was paying for.
A top Wisconsin Republican party official on March 17 filed a request under the state's freedom-of-information law for emails written by University of Wisconsin's William J. Cronon, after the professor blogged about the American Legislative Exchange Council, an anti-regulatory group that lobbies state legislatures.
The intrepid Mac McClelland, who covered the spill and secrecy at its peak for Mother Jones, went back to see if anything had changed. But BP's cops tried to stop her.
Former National Freedom of Information director Coalition Charles N. Davis said the bill "puts Utah in a class of one, alone in an anti-democratic zone in which the governors enjoy almost carte blanche over what information they deign to share with the rabble.”
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal/blowout-gulf-bp-oil-spill-disaster-and-future-energy-america
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/bookshelf
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[8] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/usfs-releases-court-ordered-eis-fire-retardants
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/tipsheet
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northwest
[17] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest
[18] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/ocean-issues-highlighted-blue-vision-summit-may-20-23-dc
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries
[20] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mid-atlantic
[22] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/burec-predicts-climate-impacts-western-waters
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[24] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-plains
[26] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/blm-invites-more-public-comment-new-oil-shale-peis
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[28] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[29] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/bp-blowout-anniversary-whats-under-elmers-island
[30] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/watchdog-tipsheet
[31] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[32] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[33] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/wisconsin-another-case-pits-freedom-information-against-academic-free
[34] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/bp-still-keeps-media-covering-damage-its-private-beach-gulf-coast
[35] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/utah-governor-signs-controversial-bill-cutting-public-access-info
[36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[37] https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal/death-life-monterey-bay-story-revival
[38] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47
[39] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=102
[40] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=99
[41] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=100
[42] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=101
[43] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=104
[44] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=105
[45] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=106
[46] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=107
[47] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/%2A/47?page=202
[48] https://www.sej.org/publications/list/Watchdog+TipSheet