The Daily Glob

"No Work And Running Out Of Food: The Life Of Fishermen In Louisiana"

"JJ Creppel stood in his baseball cap and white rubber boots and threw his small net into the muddy bayou. Pickups and cars zoomed nearby along Hwy 23, the only road connecting oil-wrecked lower Plaquemines Parish to the wealthier suburbs of New Orleans. Creppel hauled in the net and flung the small catch onto the boat launch. A few baby pogies flopped on the gravel, among them a few small shrimp. 'Not much here,' Creppel said as he picked them up and flung them into a bucket. " Rocky Kistner writes for the Natural Resources Defense Council October 4, 2010.

"Feds: Minimal Impacts From Drilling Moratorium"

"WASHINGTON — The deep-water drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico has not increased unemployment in the region, says a new report from the Obama administration that was immediately disputed by Louisiana lawmakers.

"Gulf May Avoid Direst Predictions After Oil Spill"

"How much damage resulted from almost five million barrels of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico is still being toted up in laboratories and government offices."

"Louisianans Affected by Gulf Oil Spill Seek Lessons in Alaska From Exxon Valdez"

"IN CORDOVA, ALASKA He'd just met her, but Evan Beedle wanted Rosina Philippe to know how his life changed after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, how pieces of his identity slipped away, one label at a time. Husband. Father. Fisherman.

"In La. Beach Town, Bitter Farewells To a Lost Summer"

"This is it. It is over. Summer is lost. Those were Fred Marshall's thoughts as he slumped behind his tiny desk at Gulfstream Marina, worry lines criss-crossing his face, redness framing his weary blue-green eyes in this picturesque beach town.

"Scientists Raise Queries About Gulf Oil Left Behind"

"Two new scientific reports on Tuesday raised fresh fears about the environmental fallout from the world's worst offshore oil spill and questioned government assurances that most of the oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico was already gone.

"Well Capping Brings Relief But Fear of Abandonment"

With the Deepwater Horizon gusher capped, many Gulf residents who are still hurting from the spill can feel the nation's gaze turning away.

"Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Survival of an Isolated Village"

"In Grand Bayou, La., wiped out by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the spill is the latest catastrophe to strike its Atakapa-Ishak people, who have long contended with oil companies' encroachment." Molly Hennessy-Fiske reports for the Los Angeles Times August 4, 2010.