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- 6/25: Biden, Mabus to visit Gulf coast
- 6/23: More oil gushing
- 6/22: Gulf rig owner criticizes President Obama's drilling halt
- 6/20: BP exec's yachting trip infuriates
- 6/19: Questions on who is in charge
- 6/18: BP's Hayward off spill duty, more
- 6/16: BP to create $20b escrow fund
Archive for October, 2010
10/6: News coverage of OA’s Gulf panel
Click into this story to find links to stories that covered part of the Oct. 5 panel on the “Future of the Gulf Coast” offered by the Oxford American magazine at the National Archives in Washington.
10/7: Seafood safety
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke visited the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service Mississippi Laboratory in Pascagoula, Miss., on Oct. 5. Click to learn more.
10/6: Future of the Gulf
Panelists on the Oxford American magazine’s “Future of the Gulf Coast” discussion on Oct. 5 concluded, among other things, that Southern leaders needed to be bold, innovative and concentrate on diversifying the region’s economy for the Gulf to prosper responsibly in the future. Click to learn more.
10/5: Quiet beauty
Photographer Terri Garland says this image of empty crab crates on a dock at Point la Hache, La., captured her eye this summer because of its quiet beauty — especially in the midst of all of the mess going on with the Gulf oil disaster. Click for more.
10/4: Questions
Photographer Terri Garland captured this woman asking pointed questions of Kenneth Feinberg, government-appointed administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund, during a July 15 meeting at Port Sulphur Catholic Church in Louisiana. Click to learn more.l
10/3: Capt. Collins
Photographer Terri Garland captured this image in the summer of veteran Louisiana oysterman Wilbert Collins on a dock in Golden Meadows. Click for more.
10/2: Tattoo artist
Tattoo artist Bobby Pitre of Larose, La., is portrayed by photographer Terri Garland as he paints a satiric portrait of now-deposed BP CEO Tony Hayward. Click to learn more.
10/1: Old Bay talk on Gulf
Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, left, spoke this week at the National Aquarium in Baltimore about the Gulf oil disaster and how a similar spill could affect Chesapeake Bay.
Brack to moderate Oct. 5 Gulf panel
Center for a Better South President Andy Brack will moderate a panel Oct. 5 that considers “The Future of the Gulf Coast.”