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Louisiana local official says Kevin Costner will fight Gulf gusher

May 12, 2010

Posted by Jessica Lass in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
bobbyjindal, dispersants, gulfofmexico, gulfspill, kevincostner, offshoredrilling, oil, stephenbaldwin, venice

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...

VIDEO: Oil clumps wash ashore in the South Pass in Louisiana

May 11, 2010

Posted by Jessica Lass in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
deepwaterhorizon, gulfspill, louisiana, oil

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...

Blood and Oil are Two Things You Don’t Want on Your Hands

May 11, 2010

Posted by Jessica Lass in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
booms, BP, gulfcoast, gulfspill, louisiana, oil, southpass, tarballs, venice

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...

The Oil’s Changing Personality

May 7, 2010

Posted by Jessica Lass in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
BP, bretonisland, dolphins, grandgosierisland, gulfspill, louisiana, oil

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...

Jessica Lass
Jessica Lass
Senior Press Secretary
Santa Monica
When I announced in April 2008 that I'd be moving from Washington, DC, to sunny...
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