Posted by Jessica Lass in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
My last day in Venice – just hours before heading to the airport after a week and a half on ground zero of the Gulf oil rig disaster – I stumbled upon breaking news at the Cypress Cove Marina. Coming...
Posted by Jessica Lass in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The boat ride from Cypress Cove in Venice, La., took about an hour over choppy water and being stopped by the Coast Guard and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. We faced a southwesterly wind before we making landfall at an...
Posted by Jessica Lass in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I’ll be the first to admit it wasn’t my brightest idea, but after finding oil for the first time on land at South Pass, my reaction was to reach out and touch it. It’s not that I didn’t believe the...
Posted by Jessica Lass in Moving Beyond Oil
At the Venice marina in Louisiana, there are a cast of characters usually milling about the fish gutting table watching the latest yellowfin catch come in and be sliced up and others are perched up on the second story of...
Posted by Jessica Lass in Moving Beyond Oil
Tonight as I was speaking with the shrimpers I’ve gotten to know this week, I could tell they were leery about going out to fight the oil spill tomorrow. Most of them have heard about the magnitude of the spill...
Posted by Jessica Lass in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday was the first day I got a chance to see the now infamous BP oil disaster up close and as expected. We found oil a few miles from shore, several miles closer than where the NRDC team had seen...
Posted by Jessica Lass in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
I landed today in New Orleans not knowing exactly what I was walking into. I’ve been reading and studying up on the spill, the anticipated trajectory, the looming devastation it will have on the coastal economy and also the people...
