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BP oil spill cleanup workers are upset over an interpretation that blocks them from medical settlement payments. A judge is now reconsidering his original ruling

David Hammer, WWL-TV, New Orleans District Judge Carl Barbier, who initially backed BP’s reading of the settlement, but now is reconsidering and realizing that the current interpretation might relegate most of the class members to just what the settlement was supposed to avoid — years of costly litigation. NEW ORLEANS — Mark Mead and two Read More »

The Gulf Coast Regional Health Outreach Program

Not all funds awarded in the medical settlement with BP Oil are going directly to the victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that claimed 11 lives and affected hundreds of thousands of people. Part of the settlement was a $105 million initiative, the Gulf Coast Regional Health Outreach Program, designed to strengthen communities in Read More »

Corexit, Crude Oil and Respiratory Illness

Corexit is a chemical dispersant that was sprayed onto the crude oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Corexit is a known toxin and carries warnings to that effect on its instructions for use. Three years after the spill, both cleanup workers and residents of the Gulf region Read More »

Effects of Corexit on Reproductive Health

As the years pass, there is now ample evidence that the damage from Corexit ― the dispersant sprayed onto the crude oil following the 2010 BP Oil Spill ― is not limited to only immediate and short-term effects. Corexit is now implicated in long-term and reproductive illnesses as well. In the year following the spill, Read More »

The Gulf Oil Spill’s Effect on Children

Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an investigative report published in The Nation revealed that healthcare providers had stopped counting how many residents of the region were showing signs of illness caused by the spill, many of them infants and children. In matters of health and wellness, children Read More »

Can the EPA Protect Us from BP?

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the government agency responsible for monitoring and protecting the condition of our air, water, soil and natural food supply. The agency is charged with responding to climate change, banning toxins that find their way into our air, water and food, and responding to and monitoring the management Read More »

Years After the Spill — Corexit Still Causing Illness

Following the tragic BP Oil Spill along the Gulf of Mexico, an oil dispersant called Corexit was sprayed onto the water’s surface at a rate of one gallon of Corexit to 91 gallons of Louisiana crude. A large oil spill, but by no means the largest in history, was followed by a cleanup effort that Read More »

Crude Oil and Corexit Cocktail Continue to Contaminate the Gulf

In the corporate panic to contain the largest spill of crude oil in U.S. history and the need to maintain a positive public media image, BP sprayed an unprecedented amount of the chemical dispersant Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico. Years later, the toxic compound of Corexit and crude oil continues to affect the quality Read More »

Do I Qualify as a “Cleanup Worker”?

Exposure to five million barrels of crude oil, which contains benzene, a known carcinogen. Working with two million gallons of chemical dispersants, which are linked to numerous health problems, including skin and respiratory ailments ― without the required protective clothing and equipment. A general increased risk of cancer and leukemia, kidney and liver damage, blood Read More »

Blood Tests Show Elevated Health Risks for Gulf Spill Cleanup Workers

This article is discussing what we have been saying for over a year now. The BP Oil Spill Cleanup Workers are sick and dying do to the toxic chemicals they handled well cleaning up the oil spill. Please read this article. “People hired to clean up Gulf of Mexico beaches and marshes during the 2010 Read More »