The Daily Glob

"She Recruited Facebook Friends To Save Gulf Coast's Hermit Crabs"

When the Gulf oil spill came to Grand Isle State Park, Louisiana ranger Leanne Sarco knew her job running a summer program for children would be cancelled. So she used Facebook to recruit and organize volunteers in a project to clean oiled hermit crabs.

"Whistleblower Group Sues To Find Out Why Administration Lowballed BP Oil Spill Estimates"

"What led Obama administration officials to wildly understate the size of the BP oil spill until it was all over? Was it just a series of honest mistakes? Or was science being manipulated for political purposes? An environmental whistleblower group suspects the latter, and its distrust has only grown as the U.S. Geological Survey, one of several agencies involved in assessing the flow rate, has refused to turn over relevant documents including directives from political appointees.

"'This Is Our Beat'"

"Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon sank and oil began erupting into the Gulf of Mexico in late April, the 105-year-old Audubon magazine did something that it had never done before—it sent a blogger to cover a breaking news event in real time.

"BP's Fight Against Energy Nonprofit Highlights Murky World of Advocacy-For-Hire"

An oil-industry-funded PR 'War Room' stands ready to kill or counter any public discourse unfavorable to the oil industry. The conservative non-profit group running it has been accused of shaking down BP. They are working hard to elect Republiicans to the Senate.

Crawfisher Drew Landry Sings to Oil Spill Commission

"The White House oil spill commission got some advice in an unexpected form this week: a stirring folk song from a Louisiana native who pushed those assembled to 'just do the right damn thing.'

During a public comment period toward the end of the commission's Monday meeting, Drew Landry, a native of Lafeyette, Louisiana and a Cajun singer-songwriter of some renown, told the commissioners that the army of contractors brought in to clean up the oil flooding the gulf are largely wasting the region's limited financial resources."

Jeff Muskus reports for the Huffington Post July 14, 2010.

"Historic Oil Spill Fails To Produce Gains for U.S. Environmentalists"

"For environmentalists, the BP oil spill may be disproving the maxim
that great tragedies produce great change." David A. Fahrenthold and
Juliet Eilperin report for the Washington Post July 12, 2010.

"Jimmy Buffett Hopes To Boost Gulf Spirits With Concert"

"Jimmy Buffett says Gulf Coast residents have every right to be mad about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but he's hoping a free beach concert will help lift spirits. Buffett and his band will play Sunday on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., which has been sporadically hit by oil for weeks. The show was originally set for last week but had to be postponed because of bad weather from Hurricane Alex. Instead, he gave an impromptu free show at his sister's waterfront restaurant in Gulf Shores last Wednesday." The AP had the story July 6, 2010.

"Judge Martin Feldman Releases Investment Report, Raising More Questions"

"U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman owned stock in ExxonMobil, which has two oil exploration projects in the Gulf of Mexico that have been delayed by the deepwater drilling moratorium, but sold his shares the same day he ruled on the issue. Last week Feldman overturned the deepwater drilling moratorium that the Obama administration put in place after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, and ignited a fire storm among critics, who realized that he had many investments in energy stocks. To quell his critics, Feldman volunteered to release a report of his 2009 stock holdings, but the report only seems to raise more questions about whether he should have recused himself."Rebecca Mowbray reports for the New Orleans Times-Picayune June 28, 2010.

"Louisiana Police Pull Over Activist at Behest of BP"

"Rallies Across the Country Protest Gulf Oil Spill"

On Tuesday, World Oceans Day, two grassroots groups, MoveOn.org and 350.org, coordinated hundreds of events across the United States "to protest the BP oil disaster and call for clean energy solutions."Environment News Service had the story June 8, 2010.