Oil Spill
Will RESTORE really benefit Coast?
Sea Coast Echo
By JACE PONDER
Jul 2, 2012, 18:30
Congress passed legislation Friday to channel fines collected from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill to Mississippi and the other four Gulf states, but Mississippi's money may not entirely be used to benefit the Coast.
http://12.68.233.230/40/article_6068.shtml
Several turtle species nesting along coast in record numbers
Published: Monday, July 02, 2012, 9:35 AM Updated: Monday, July 02, 2012, 9:59 AM
By Michael Dumas
Press-Register
GULF SHORES, Alabama -- This year is shaping up to be the Year of the Turtle along the Gulf Coast, and volunteers and wildlife experts in Alabama are excited to be in the middle of it.
Just 2 years after the oil spill of 2010, they say that turtle nesting appears to be thriving.
http://blog.al.com/live/2012/07/several_turtle_species_nesting.html
Ex-BP engineer presses prosecutors to explain how deleted texts impeded grand jury probe
By Associated Press, Published: July 2
NEW ORLEANS — Lawyers for a former BP engineer are pressing federal prosecutors to explain how their client impeded a grand jury probe by deleting text messages about the company’s response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf Spill Settlement Could Save BP Billions In The Long Run
Forbes
Oil major BP is said to be close to reaching a settlement deal with the Justice Department over the infamous 2010 oil spill incident. According to a Wall Street Journal article, the government agency is close to reaching a deal with BP and offshore drillerTransocean. [1]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/07/02/gulf-spill-settlement-could-save-bp-billions-in-the-long-run/
State News
Stennis engineer receives NASA award for work on offshore artificial reef
Published: Monday, July 02, 2012, 2:15 PM Updated: Monday, July 02, 2012, 2:18 PM
By Harlan Kirgan
Mississippi Press
BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi -- Stennis Space Center engineer Bryon Maynard received a NASA Blue Marble Award for his role in converting a 107,000-gallon liquid hydrogen sphere and two other tanks into offshore artificial reefs deployed south of Pascagoula.
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/07/stennis_engineer_receives_nasa.html
Mississippi at odds with Louisiana over water boundaries
Sun Herald
By GEOFF PENDER — glpender@sunherald.com
BILOXI -- Mississippi officials and charter fishermen oppose Louisiana's effort to extend its state water boundaries 7 miles further.
http://www.sunherald.com/2012/07/02/4042485/mississippi-at-odds-with-louisiana.html
How McComb, SW Mississippi prepares for Tuscaloosa Shale oil exploration and growth
07.02.12 - 03:00 pm
McCOMB, Miss.-- "This is the most important meeting this county will ever witness, economically and otherwise," Thomas Tolliver Jr., Chancery Clerk of Wilkinson County, stated as he convened a meeting in a crowded Woodville, Mississippi community center.
http://www.amitetoday.com/view/full_story/19176789/article-How-McComb--SW-Mississippi-prepares-for-Tuscaloosa-Shale-oil-exploration-and-growth?instance=secondary_stories_left_column
Bill Clinton, Haley Barbour to attend press conference announcing GreenTech's MyCar
Published: Monday, July 02, 2012, 2:19 PM Updated: Monday, July 02, 2012, 2:39 PM
By Mississippi Press Staff
HORN LAKE, Mississippi -- Former President Bill Clinton and former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour don't attend many of the same events, but they are scheduled to be together here Friday to promote a new electric car at GreenTech Automotive, according to a news release.
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/07/bill_clinton_haley_barbour_to.html
National News
Federal pipeline office proposes $3.7M penalty for Michigan oil spill, agency’s largest ever
By Associated Press, Published: July 2
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal regulators proposed a $3.7 million civil penalty Monday against the Canadian owner of a pipeline that ruptured in 2010, dumping more than 800,000 gallons of oil into a southwestern Michigan river.
Poll: Climate change not top issue
Politico
By: MJ Lee
July 3, 2012 06:14 AM EDT
Americans no longer consider climate change the most serious environmental problem, according to a new Washington Post-Stanford University poll.
