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The perfect gift for your future bar pilot

December 7, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
Cosco Busan, playmobile, shipping, tiny plastic hat

Spotted at the JFK airport gift shop. Kids, avoid a misconduct charge by practicing now to avoid those pesky bridges! ...continued

Tell us your oil spill story

December 4, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
civil society, Cosco Busan, crab, oil spill, volunteer

Today we're inviting our California activists and members to tell us their experiences with the Cosco Busan spill. Thousands of volunteers have now scrubbed the beaches with hair mats, helped rescue oiled birds, and gone to great lengths to protect...continued

Images of the Oil Spill

November 21, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
Cosco Busan, oil spill, youtube

Two great animations of the Cosco Busan oil spill:The Ocean Conservancy put together a video from NOAA's simulation of how the oil moved through the bay, hour by hour. Listen to the dulcet tones of Mr. Warner Chabot and watch...continued

A year of falling chips

November 20, 2007

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

Tags:
Cosco Busan, oil spill, prevention

Yesterday, the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation met for the second hearing on the oil spill we've had here in the last week. The state Legislature held its hearing last Thursday, where we heard from the ILWU...continued

Oil in the bay

November 9, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing

Tags:
bayarea, Cosco Busan, Dungeness, herring, oil spill

By now, everyone out here is abuzz with the news that the Cosco Busan struck one of the support stanchions of the Bay Bridge on Wednesday and dumped 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into the water. Ideally, that buzz would...continued

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Kate Wing was a senior ocean-policy analyst at NRDC between 2000 and 2008. She's now joined...
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