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Hard Census Count Helps New Orleans Move Forward
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsThe changes to New Orleans became visible almost as soon as the floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina receded in 2005, but having a real count today from the release of 2010 census data will enable the city's leaders to know what's actually going on in the post-Katrina world for the first time. New Orleans lost 140,845 residents in the past decade, new census data shows. The city's population now stands at 343,829, down 29 percent from 484,647 residents counted in the 2000 census. The city has lost 54,188 children, a drop of 47 percent. That means that the Crescent City is smaller by almost a ...
What's Really Going to Destroy the Gulf Coast
By Dave Thier - AOL News
(Oct. 30) -- Six months after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the areas affected by the massive oil spill are beginning to recover. But for years the Mississippi River delta has faced a threat even more insidious than that of a geyser of oil, and for many in coastal wetlands, "recovery" is a dicey proposition at best. Amid spills and storms, the land in the delta itself is falling away, and some fear that if something isn't done to curb erosion and saltwater intrusion soon, the entire area may just fall into the ocean. "I'm not saying the oil spill was child's ...
Massive Fish Kill Not BP's Fault
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- BP is behind the worst accidental oil spill in history, and is thus responsible for the deaths of much affected animal life in the Gulf of Mexico. But the latest gruesome fish kill? Don't count on it. Louisiana's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries determined that rising temperatures and low tide caused the low oxygen levels that led to the mass suffocation of more than 100,000 fish in the Bayou Chaland in Plaquemines Parish, La., last week. According to The Associated Press, department spokeswoman Olivia Watkins outlined the scientific explanation for the fish kill and ...
Massive Fish Kill Hits Mississippi River Near Oil Spill [VIDEO]
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- The river looked like a road paved with dead fish. Local residents spotted hundreds of thousands of dead fish floating atop the Mississippi River late Friday evening near Bayou Chaland in Plaquemines Parish, La., just north of the Gulf of Mexico, a spot that has been affected by the BP oil spill, the Times Picayune reported. Local authorities have asked the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to help investigate the cause of the fish kill, which included several different fish species, as well as crabs, shrimp, freshwater eel ...
Gulf Pol Rages Away as BP Swaps in Junior Spill Boss
By Laura Parker - AOL News(Aug. 7) -- "I'm trying to be nice and stay off TV. That's what they want," said the man who spent weeks tethered to Anderson Cooper, ranting on CNN with equal rancor about government indifference and BP arrogance. Yet for Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser, lowering his profile has proved impossible. A few days ago, there he was on ABC, accusing BP of a "lying," "covering up" and "underplaying" the extent of the damage it has done. "It's Plaquemines Parish against the world," he told AOL News. Since BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew up April 20, Nungesser, 51, with his ample girth ...
Remaining Gulf Spill Still Bigger Than Exxon Valdez
By Laura Parker - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- On Day 107, it seemed the news from the Gulf of Mexico couldn't be better. Not only did BP's "static kill" finally seal its runaway well, but then came a report that most of the spilled oil has vanished. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists announced that 74 percent of the oil that escaped BP's Macondo well had either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, siphoned into ships from the wellhead, or broken up by a chemical dispersant released into the Gulf by BP. The White House expressed a "high degree of confidence" in the findings. NASA / AP Despite a report ...
Oil Spill Takes a Toll on All, but Gulf Minorities Feel Marginalized Again
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyAlthough the BP oil spill may finally be stopped for good, there is no gush of relief and jubilation in southeast Louisiana. Months if not years of expensive and arduous cleanup remain to be done, and no one knows when, if ever, the commercial-fishing economy will return to pre-spill levels. The entire populace -- every racial, cultural, ethnic, neighborhood and socio-economic group -- has been seriously affected. In response, every group with a sense of self-identity has rallied to its own defense. But variances in political connections, education, money, organizational skills and media ...
Tests on New Gulf Oil Well Cap Delayed
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 13) -- A new cap affixed to its blown-out well, BP started running tests today to see whether it can halt the flow of America's worst-ever oil spill for the first time since the disaster began off Louisiana's coast 84 days ago. But the British oil giant then delayed the tests after government officials said more analysis was required on the strategy, according to The Associated Press. The tests involve slowly shutting three giant valves on the cap, an 18-foot-high, 150,000-pound stack of metal pipes and valves lowered into place Monday. No pressure test results were in yet, but readings ...
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