Bridge The Gulf's blog

As oil, sickness and contamination persist, Gulf residents and lawyers file thousands of lawsuits against the oil giant. [...Read more]

Last month, Bridge the Gulf and Gulf Change partnered to create the first edition of X-Change, a Gulf Coast-based newsletter focused on environmental justice.  X-Change features  “good people doing good work”, including personal stories by Gulf Coast community members who are facing environmental justices issues, and updates on the work of local organizations working for sustainable, thriving communities. [...Read more]

Fresh oil seepages raise questions about further problems with BP's damaged oil well.  By Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English.  Fifteen months after BP's crippled Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico caused one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, oil and oil sheen covering several square kilometers of w [...Read more]

By Al Letson, Cross-posted from PRX [...Read more]

By Bill Quigley.  Cross-posted from Huffington Post.

Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The impact of Katrina and government bungling continue to inflict major pain on the people left behind. It is impossible to understand what happened and what still remains without considering race, gender and poverty. The following offer some hints of what remains. [...Read more]

By Scott Eustis.  Cross-posted from the Gulf Restoration Network. [...Read more]

By Kerry Kennedy.  Crossposted from The Huffington Post. 

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Rethink is a non-profit organization that brings youth voice into changing New Orleans' public schools. This summer we studied health epidemics ---- childhood obesity and type II diabetes ---- and came up with our own solutions.  Take a look!

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Editor's note: Today, a guest blogger explains some of the legal obstacles and opportunities for whistleblowers in the BP disaster. Lindsey Williams of the National Whistleblowers Center describes how a law signed by Abraham Lincoln could be used to protect whistleblowers on the Gulf Coast, and make negligent corporations pay. [...Read more]

By Ariella Cohen, crossposted from The Lens. In January 2002, a mound of powdery chemical catalyst used to make gasoline collapsed on a worker doing routine cleanup at the Marathon Ashland Petroleum refinery in Garyville, La. [...Read more]