NRDC Urges Investigation into Gulf Spill; Calls for Clean Energy Legislation Now; Cleanup Technologies Should Advance Faster; Implications for Wildlife in the Gulf, Dispersant Research Sparse
Posted May 10, 2010 in The Media and the Environment
A MarketWatch article quoted and linked to a letter Frances Beinecke sent to President Obama last week to urge him to take action in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill… In the Washington Post, David Doniger explained how the public opinion shift since the oil spill may help America enact comprehensive climate change legislation; Regan Nelson contributed to the article… Linda Greer commented on the sparseness of research regarding deep-sea chemical dispersants in a Washington Post article about the questions surrounding their usage in the Gulf… Politico ran an Op-Ed by David Pettit calling for oil spill cleanup technologies to advance at the same rate as oil drilling technologies…
Gina Solomon detailed the risks the oil spill poses to human health in a HealthDay piece carried by Businessweek, MSN and various other websites… Michael Jasny commented on oil’s ill effects on the seafloor and the animals that feed there in Agence France-Presse… Regan Nelson also spoke about the spill’s implications for wildlife on Los Angeles NPR station KPCC… A USA Today Greenhouse blog post about the spill’s human health effects linked to and quoted from Gina Solomon’s Switchboard blog…
