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BP Deepwater Horizon Anniversary: Follow the Money [1]

April 20, 2015, marks the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history. The story is far from over. If you are covering the legacy of the spill, SEJ is offering two special TipSheets by the Advocate's Amy Wold that will help you get the facts and background. Photo: Oiled endangered Ridley's turtle. Credit: Carolyn Cole/ LA Times; courtesy NOAA.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [8]
Pollution [9]
Water & Oceans [10]
Wildlife [11]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [12]
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Public [13]
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Living in Harm’s Way: Louisiana’s Struggle Between Land and Sea [14]

After Katrina, Louisiana may have hit the national spotlight for a time, but coastal communities elsewhere around the country will have to find their own answers to the question “Why does anyone still live there in harm’s way?” — even as more and more people move toward the coast and the water moves ever closer to them.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
Economy & Business [16]
Environmental Health [5]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
People & Population [17]
Planning & Growth [18]
Water & Oceans [10]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [12]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Special Edition TipSheet: Gulf Coast Restoration [19]

Amy Wold, a reporter with The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, writes about coastal challenges facing the state, including coastal loss, restoration, economics, diversion, the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP settlements and the RESTORE Act, fisheries impacts — and why protecting and stabilizing Louisiana’s coastline is not just a local issue, but a national one. Image: Heavy machinery moves around sediment that has been piped in from the Mississippi River at a coastal restoration project in Plaquemines Parish in November 2013. © Amy Wold, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [4]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Planning & Growth [18]
Water & Oceans [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [20]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [12]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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"The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea" [21]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [23]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Water & Oceans [10]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Proposal Could Restrict Public Access to NOAA Fisheries Data [24]

NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service is considering a rule which could restrict public access to important data on commercial fishing — and overfishing. This data includes federally required public records paid for by taxpayers. The watchdog group OMB Watch criticized the proposed rule's handling of confidential information

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [7]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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BP To Get Gulf Oil Spill Information Withheld from Public [26]

After complaints from BP, the US government agreed to give the company evidence of the basis for its calculation of the flow rate from the stricken Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The government will hand over to BP some 100 documents about the size of the 2010 oil spill that have not yet been made public.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [10]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Environmental Politics [27]
Environmental Health [5]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Economy & Business [16]
Disasters [3]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [12]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Integrity Problems at Interior's Science Integrity Program? [28]

One sign of problems came when Interior's Inspector General office launched what seemed to be a ham-handed investigation, later dropped, into activities of the scientist who sounded the alarm on polar bears losing habitat to global warming. Now Interior has fired one of its scientific integrity officers — who is defending himself by saying he was just doing his job.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [11]
Water & Oceans [10]
Science [29]
Government [30]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Environmental Politics [27]
Climate Change [31]
Biodiversity [23]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Big Canadian Fish Farm Firm Seeks to Criminalize, Silence Environmental Critics [32]

Mainstream Canada, the nation's second-largest farmed-salmon producer — and a subsidiary of an even more gargantuan Danish transnational holding company — will try to crush and silence environmental activist Don Staniford, who has had the temerity to criticize their operations publicly.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [10]
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Activism [33]
Region:
Canada [34]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Feds Issue Regional Plans for Recreational Saltwater Fishing [35]

NOAA Fisheries Service has developed an action plan for 6 coastal regions, plus a plan for highly migratory Atlantic species. Projects outlined in the plans will include a wide range of education and communication efforts, targeted fisheries improvements, altered management approaches, scientific studies, and improvements in social and economic data.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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Another Interior Science Probe: This Time on Delta Smelt [36]

The latest episode is an internal Interior Dept. probe into the work of two scientists who study the tiny but endangered smelt which live in the Sacramento River delta that feeds into San Francisco Bay.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Fish & Fisheries [6]
Region:
California [37]
Visibility:
Public [13]
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