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This 1,000-mile river suffered decades of oil spills. Now it’s a legal person, things could change
Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...
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15 years after the BP oil spill disaster, how is the Gulf of Mexico faring?
Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...
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Fishermen struggle 15 years after the BP oil spill
Commercial fishermen in the Gulf are still grappling with the effects of the BP oil spill, 15 years later. Photo courtesy of ...
15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete
Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history ...
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Oil companies have downplayed extent of spills in Gulf of Mexico, investigation finds
One morning in early April 2024, Elías Naal Hernández set out with his fishing net to try his luck in the waters of Isla ...
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15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Examining the Gulf's economic recovery
The Deepwater Horizon disaster ultimately led to the largest environmental settlement in U.S. history. While BP was deemed ...
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15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill,…
An investigation by The Associated Press previously found all but a handful of roughly 4,800 lawsuits seeking compensation for health problems linked to the oil spill have been dismissed and only ...
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This 1,000-mile river suffered decades of oil spills. Now it’s a legal person, things could change
arsenic and cadmium levels were detected in the urine of people consuming fish from the river or whose vegetable gardens were close to oil spill sites. Canaquiri Murayari’s association was ...