Mobile and Baldwin County News
When the Deepwater Horizon well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico in the spring of 2010, Mobile native Mike deGruy did not wait to be asked. The Santa Barbara-based…
Less than four months after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster began fouling Gulf waters, the Mobile Bay Group of the Sierra Club turned its August 3, 2010 meeting over to…
Surf and skate retailers along the Alabama and Florida Panhandle coast say the BP oil spill has gutted their busiest season of the year, and that a slow, confusing claims…
BP told local business leaders this week that its Deepwater Horizon spill-response operations based in Mobile have leaned heavily on local real estate, transportation, vendors and labor, offering some of…
A 2010 WKRG report documented major holiday-weekend tourism losses on Dauphin Island during the Gulf oil spill.
Mobile Baykeeper, the local nonprofit focused on protecting Mobile Bay and its watershed, has come out against the continued use of the chemical dispersant Corexit in the federal response to…
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continued to threaten Alabama’s coastline in the summer of 2010, a grassroots effort called Sea Stand began recruiting musicians, comedians, and other performers to…
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spread across the Gulf in the spring of 2010, international press attention turned to Bon Secour Fisheries, whose century-old Baldwin County business felt the…
Class action attorney Rick Kuykendall, a Mobile native, drew national notice for his work on Deepwater Horizon claims, as federal prosecutors opened a criminal investigation and BP agreed to fund…
Fifty days into the Gulf disaster, the cap fitted over the failed blowout preventer was recovering more than 10,000 barrels a day, but engineers were still venting oil into the…