Gulf spill raises questions about role of oil consultants

The Obama administration has cracked down on oil companies and federal regulators for the failures that led to the BP spill, but the private consulting firms that helped prepare many Gulf drilling plans have received far less scrutiny. A McClatchy review of plans approved by the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service in 2009 and 2010 found that consultants were widely used but that in nearly all cases they wrote plans with the same flaws that experts and members of Congress have identified in BP's.

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Scientists Say Gulf Oil Disaster Altering Food Web

Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment. Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes - cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles.

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The Big Lie: BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants

Public officials have failed to sound an alarm about the public health threat because three federal agencies - DHHS, EPA, and OSHA - cannot find any unsafe levels of oil in air or water. Perhaps the federal air and water standards are not stringent enough to protect the public from oil pollution. Our federal laws [3] are outdated and do not protect us from the toxic threat from oil - now widely recognized in the scientific and medical community.

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Abandoned Oil Wells Make Gulf of Mexico 'Environmental Minefield'

AP investigation finds BP was responsible for 600 of more than 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico

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Depression, Abuse, Suicide: Fishermen's Wives Face Post-Spill Trauma

"My husband's talking about finding BP CEOs and hurting them..."

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Hidden Truths BP and The White House are Hiding from the American Public

A conversation with Peak Oil Investigator Michael Ruppert

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Reaching too Far, Delving too Deep: The Well from Hell

BP Knows it will get Worse, much Worse

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