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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Try Me a River Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands		20 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Try Me a River Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands How to protect and restore the Louisiana coast? A group of researchers has a crazy idea that just might work: shift the course of the Mississippi River. Every half hour or so, the Mississippi steals a football-field-sized chunk of soil from Louisiana's coastal wetlands; it dumps 120 million tons of would-be hurrican ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Eur-eek!-a Fat new oil deposits found in the Gulf of Mexico		07 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Eur-eek!-a Fat new oil deposits found in the Gulf of Mexico Beneath some 20,000 feet of earth and 7,000 feet of water, 175 miles off the U.S. coast in the Gulf of Mexico, lies an enormous field of oil and gas -- enough to potentially double U.S. oil reserves. The lucky SOBs who found it are oil giant Chevron and partners Devon Energy Corp. and Statoil ASA, via the modestly named Jack No. 2 test well. Petro-experts predic ...
Topics: energy, Gulf of Mexico, news, oil (all these topics)

We're Running Out of Drilling Puns Senate votes to expand drilling in Gulf of Mexico		02 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
We're Running Out of Drilling Puns Senate votes to expand drilling in Gulf of Mexico Acting boldly to address America's nascent energy crisis, U.S. senators ... passed one more sop to the oil and gas industry and got ready to flee town for the summer recess. Yesterday, by a vote of 71 to 25, the Senate passed a bill that would open 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, while p ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

Oops Oil leaks all over everything		11 May 2006	Daily Grist
Oops Oil leaks all over everything Oil, oil everywhere! And not in a good way. In its dubiously named Sustainability Report, oil behemoth Royal Dutch Shell reports that oil spills at its facilities rose 50 percent from 2004 to 2005. Hurricane damage was responsible for a goodly portion of the spillage, and sabotage of a major pipeline in Nigeria didn't help either. The amou ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Gulf of Mexico, news, oil, Texas (all these topics)

They Put the 'Dies' In 'Subsidies' Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' traced back to farm subsidies		17 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
They Put the "Dies" In "Subsidies" Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" traced back to farm subsidies You know that massive "dead zone" that shows up every year in the Gulf of Mexico? The oxygen-starved, life-free patch of water about the size of, oh, Connecticut? That's your tax dollars at work. The zone ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Working Group, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Midwest, news, toxics (all these topics)

Bye Catch Over a fifth of all fish caught are killed and discarded, study finds		02 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Bye Catch Over a fifth of all fish caught are killed and discarded, study finds The first comprehensive study of "bycatch" -- unwanted fish caught and discarded by commercial fishing operations -- has confirmed the worst fears of conservationists: Over a fifth of all fish caught by U.S. commercial fishers, around 1.1 million tons, are tossed out every year. Commis ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, Gulf of Mexico, marine life, news (all these topics)

Atlantic Records An eye on this year's record-setting hurricane season	Sarah van Schagen	20 Oct 2005	Counter Culture
Photo: NOAA. 1 -- rank of Hurricane Wilma in Atlantic storm intensity on record1 12 -- Atlantic hurricanes so far this season, tying a record set in 19692 21 -- named storms so far this season, tying a record set in 19332 145 -- wind speed of Wilma at press time, in miles per hour3 140 -- wind speed of Hurricane Katrina as it hit Louisiana, in miles per hour4 18 -- states included in federal d ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico (all these topics)

Platform Shoos Abandoned oil rigs host thriving ecosystems, stir debate		12 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Platform Shoos Abandoned oil rigs host thriving ecosystems, stir debate Discovery of thriving ecosystems on some abandoned oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico is refueling a debate over what to do with old rigs once their oil-drilling life is over. Some conservationists have been advocating a "Rigs to Reefs" program whereby old platforms are tipped over, cut down below the water's surfa ...
Topics: energy, environmental planning, Gulf of Mexico, news, oil (all these topics)

Gulf Clubbed Gulf of Mexico Beset by a Bevy of Environmental Ills		13 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Gulf Clubbed Gulf of Mexico Beset by a Bevy of Environmental Ills The Gulf of Mexico is in deep trouble, reports the Naples Daily News in an extensive 15-part series. Named last year by the U.S. EPA as the dirtiest coastal body of water in the U.S., the gulf takes a beating from leaking hog-waste lagoons, fertilizer from Midwest farms that reaches the gulf via the Mississippi and other rivers, runoff from land that has been ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, water pollution (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas ... (all these topics)

Old MacDonald Had an Idea Altering the market to promote sustainable farming	Elizabeth Sawin	07 Oct 2002	Global Citizen
The Aug. 16 issue of Science magazine features an ominous headline: "Dead Zone Grows." To the right of the headline is a map of the Gulf of Mexico with an irregular green stripe hugging the shoreline. This is the Dead Zone, an area of the gulf where oxygen levels are so low that most marine organisms -- including crab and shrimp -- cannot survive. A primary cause of the problem i ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, marine life, Mississippi River, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges Some of Florida's natural wonders will be protected from oil and gas drilling, thanks to two major deals announced yesterday by President Bush. The first, a completed $115 million buy-back of drilling leases off the shores of Pensacola, will protect the beaches of the ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, land stewardship, Mexico, mining and drilling, National Environmental Trust, politics (all these topics)

Shore: Enough		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Shore: Enough An innovative if controversial bill could protect offshore waters in California from oil drilling by allowing oil companies to swap drilling claims in California for others in the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation, introduced yesterday by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and John Breaux (D-La.), would convert 40 offshore tra ...
Topics: California, Gulf of Mexico, mining and drilling, oceans, wilderness (all these topics)

Gulp of Mexico		27 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Gulp of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, where nutrient pollution from farms in the Midwest has chocked off fish life, is bigger this year than ever before, according to university researchers. Stretching from the Mississippi River delta to Texas waters, the 8,000-square-mile, low-oxygen area is forcing crabs and other bottom feeders to the surface. Enviro ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

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