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For Gulf Coast Residents, the Oil Spill Nightmare Continues

Patty Whitney 4-18-2011

For three months last year the Gulf Coast oil spill was the major topic of news reports all over the world. From the explosion on April 20, 2010, until the capping of the gushing well on July 15, 2010, the headlines were consumed with images and dialogue about the tragedy unfolding before our very eyes. Shortly after the news of the capping, the government reported that “most” of the oil was gone, and that things were getting back to normal. The camera crews packed up. The reporters turned in their hotel room keys and gathered their deductible tax receipts. And they all left. Kumbaya, the oil was gone, and the world was normal again. The world could move on to other, more pressing interests. That is … the rest of the world could move on to other, more pressing interests.

Voices from the Gulf: We Arise to the Putrid Scent of Oil

Jenny Perrin 7-13-2010

Editor's note: "Voices From the Gulf" is a series of posts from people experiencing first-hand the devastating effects of the worst oil spill in American history. Check back often for more stories each week.

Testifying on the Gulf Coast

Jim Wallis 7-07-2010

The captain was the first to smell it. He told us that the ocean didn't used to smell this way. Then, we all smelled it.

Time for Some Angry Work

Bill McKibben 6-24-2010

I'd say Barack Obama's long and often tenuous honeymoon with progressive Americans took what looks like a lethal blow in spring 2010.

Voices from the Gulf: Pray We Will Not Lose Heart

Terri Rousey 6-22-2010

This oil is destroying the livelihoods of so many people, not just fishermen; our economy is all connected. If our wetlands are destroyed, we will lose even more of our protection from hurricane storm surge. America needs to care because this is their coastline too! Part of what destroyed the coastline was the country's lust for oil. The oil companies cut navigational canals through the marshes to make access easier. This allowed salt water to move further inland, kill the grasses, and now the land dissolves by a football field a day and melts into the gulf. The oil will only kill the marshes faster.

A Time for Moral Reckoning

Jim Wallis 6-03-2010

I am watching unbelievable pictures tonight of endless swaths of brown oil mixed with the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico, of dying wetlands and marshes, of miles of contaminated coastlines, of d

A Hymn and Prayer for the Gulf: 'O God, the Great, Wide Seas are Yours'

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette 5-11-2010

This hymn-prayer was written in response to the ongoing oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig that started on April 20^th.