Federal red snapper season in the Gulf cut to nine days
Federal managers sharply limited the 2014 red snapper season in the Gulf of Mexico to just nine days, frustrating Alabama anglers and coastal communities who say the science behind the…
Washington Post Puts Fairhope’s ‘Utopia’ on the National Map
Fairhope has long been a point of pride on the Eastern Shore, and in May 2011 the town got a glossy national endorsement: a Washington Post lifestyle feature headlined “In…
2011 Offshore Earthquake Was Felt Along the Alabama Coast
A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck about 10 miles off Baldwin County in February 2011, with residents from Orange Beach to Dauphin Island reporting light shaking.
Dauphin Island Sea Lab Director to Weigh In on Oil Spill Policy
George Crozier, longtime director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, was invited to deliver a talk examining how the 1990 Oil Pollution Act fared against the reality of the 2010…
Sea Stand Recruits Volunteer Performers for Free Gulf Coast Concerts After Oil Spill
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…
Mobile Lawyer, Dauphin Island Fix at Center of Spill Response
As the BP oil spill fouled the Gulf, Mobile native Rick Kuykendall emerged as a leading claims attorney while BP agreed to fund a $15 million closing of Katrina Cut…
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Oil Spill, Day 50: Containment Cap Pulls Thousands of Barrels a Day
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…
BP Engineers Race to Fit a Cap Over the Blown-Out Gulf Well
With oil still pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers worked to shear off a broken riser pipe a mile below the surface and seat a containment cap over the…
Inside the Blowout: What It Would Take to Stop the Oil a Mile Beneath the Gulf
A plain-language guide to the Deepwater Horizon spill: why the blowout preventer failed, the three plans to stop the leak, how crude behaves at sea, and how this spill compares…
Mobile Becomes Command Hub for 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Response as Officials Weigh Ways to Push Back the Slick
In the first days after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion set off a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Mobile emerged as a nerve center for the response.…