The Verge - Deepwater Horizon: a decade of disaster https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/52801/VER_Logomark_32x32..png2020-04-20T17:15:15-04:00http://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/209846362020-04-20T17:15:15-04:002020-04-20T17:15:15-04:00Offshore drilling has dug itself a deeper hole since Deepwater Horizon
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<p>Ten years after Deepwater Horizon, offshore drilling creeps farther away from shore</p>
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https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228577/offshore-drilling-deepwater-horizon-10-year-anniversaryJustine Calma2020-02-13T11:15:23-05:002020-02-13T11:15:23-05:00New Deepwater Horizon data reveals invisible oil that satellites may have missed
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<p id="1ZrrHm">“Invisible oil” escaped the view of satellites that were tasked with measuring the extent of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, according to a new study. In the <a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/7/eaaw8863"><em>Science Advances </em>article</a>, researchers argue that updated techniques need to be deployed alongside satellite measurements to track future oil spills below the water’s surface.</p>
<p id="L1tJjY">BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig spewed more than 200 million gallons into the Gulf in 2010. At the time, <a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1029/GM195">satellite readings were used</a> to determine which areas in the Gulf were <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/109/50/20274?ijkey=785d41720cba7e1946c1b668531ae77922b07891&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha">off-limits to fishing</a>, but the dangers posed by the spilled oil to fish and the humans who eat them spread beyond those boundaries. In places where oil from the spill was no longer visible from space, it still...</p>
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https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/13/21136193/bp-oil-spill-satellites-map-deepwater-horizonJustine Calma2019-12-10T11:17:29-05:002019-12-10T11:17:29-05:00This was the decade climate change slapped us in the face
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<p>Climate change isn’t just something to worry about in the future — it’s here now</p>
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21003596/climate-change-end-of-decade-2019-temperature-storms-wildfires-effects-emissionsJustine Calma2016-11-23T12:55:53-05:002016-11-23T12:55:53-05:00The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused widespread land erosion in Louisiana
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<p id="6kVvG1">Marnie Winter remembers seeing the oil spread through the waters of Barataria Bay in southeastern Louisiana. It was 2010, just a few weeks after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico began the <a href="http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/oil-and-chemical-spills/significant-incidents/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill">largest marine oil spill in US history</a>. About <a href="https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/deepwater-horizon-bp-gulf-mexico-oil-spill">4 million barrels of oil</a> were poured into the sea, affecting <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-and-five-gulf-states-reach-historic-settlement-bp-resolve-civil-lawsuit-over-deepwater">more than 1,300 miles of shoreline from Texas to Florida</a>.</p>
<p id="9rZRNx">“It was scary,” says Winter, who’s the assistant director of the environmental department at Jefferson parish, one of the three parishes surrounding Barataria Bay. She and other local officials began working with the Coast Guard to keep the oil from reaching the shore, but despite their efforts, the oil began coating the Louisiana marshlands. “It was no...</p>
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https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13730552/2010-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-land-erosion-barataria-bay-louisianaAlessandra Potenza2016-07-14T14:27:34-04:002016-07-14T14:27:34-04:00BP estimates it will pay an additional $2.5 billion for the Deepwater Horizon debacle
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<p>BP Global plans to announce in its upcoming second quarter earnings report that it will pay an additional $2.5 billion for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/14/bp-fined-further-25bn-over-deeepwater-horizon-spill">according to <em>The Guardian</em></a>. The additional charges bring BP's total pretax fines to date to $61.6 billion, or $44 billion post-taxes.</p>
<p><q class="center">BP will pay an additional $2.5 billion</q></p>
<p>The company's chief financial officer has assured investors that any other outstanding claims related to the spill would not have material impact on the company.</p>
<p>The Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 killed 11 people and caused nearly 5 million barrels of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico. As recently as April of this year, scientists were <a href="http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/nation-world/national/article71524207.html">still finding evidence</a> that the oil spill has had a devastating...</p>
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https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/14/12190694/bp-hit-with-another-massive-fine-over-deepwater-horizon-oil-spillLauren Goode2016-04-12T12:49:54-04:002016-04-12T12:49:54-04:00Deepwater Horizon oil spill linked to newborn and fetal dolphin deaths
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<p>Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have linked an "unusual mortality event" involving bottlenose dolphins along the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In a <a href="http://www.int-res.com/articles/dao_oa/d119p001.pdf">recent study</a> published in <em>Diseases of Aquatic Organisms</em>, the researchers determined that fetal and newborn dolphins in the spill area were more likely to have died in utero or shortly after birth than dolphins outside the area.</p>
<p>From February 2010 to December 2013, the scientists evaluated 69 perinatal dolphins found stranded in areas heavily affected by the spill and compared them to 26 bottlenose dolphins unaffected by the spill, <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/-fetal-and-baby-dolphin-deaths-increased-after-deepwater-horizon-spill-BP"><em>Motherboard</em> reports</a>. The dolphins stranded in the spill zone were much smaller...</p>
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https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/12/11414250/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-dolphins-death-gulf-studyLizzie Plaugic2016-04-04T15:40:27-04:002016-04-04T15:40:27-04:00BP to pay US government $20.8 billion for Gulf oil disaster
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<p>A federal judge has approved BP’s $20 billion settlement over its 2010 oil spill, <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/717059696402776065?lang=en">the <em>Associated Press </em>reports</a>. First <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9454393/bp-oil-spill-record-fine-doj-settlement">reached in October</a>, the final settlement amount accounts for civil claims against the company set forth by the Department of Justice and five Gulf states. US Attorney General Loretta Lynch previously called the settlement "the largest with a single entity in American history."</p>
<p>While $5.5 billion will go toward penalties incurred under the Clean Water Act, most of the money will be given to five states — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas — and 400 local government entities to cover damages from the spill. BP has already spent a reported $28 billion on cleanup and compensation. The Deepwater Horizon...</p>
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https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/4/11363478/bp-gulf-oil-spill-disaster-settlementAshley Carman2015-07-02T09:40:06-04:002015-07-02T09:40:06-04:00BP will pay states $18.7 billion for 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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<p>BP has reached a settlement in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill case. The Deepwater Horizon disaster, which took place in 2010, killed 11 rig workers and blew the cap off a well, spilling hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf for months. Now the company will have to pay $18.7 billion to the US government and five states over the course of 18 years.</p>
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https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/2/8882899/bp-oil-spill-settlement-18-billion-states-deepwaterArielle Duhaime-Ross