Tribal & Local Governments
Joel Waltzer featured in trailer for Festival de Cannes
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Oil Drilling to Resume in the Gulf’s Deep Waters
By JOHN M. BRODER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS Published: February 28, 2011 LinkedinDiggMixxMySpacePermalink.WASHINGTON — The Interior Department said Monday that it had approved the first new deepwater drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP explosion and spill last spring, a milestone after a period of intense uncertainty for industry and a wholesale remaking [...]
Oil Spill Clean-Up Draws Down
Unified Command is scaling down shoreline oil removal. The “how clean is clean?” issue is being decided right now. Treatment methods, such as tilling the remaining oil into the beach sand, are presently under consideration. To download plans under review, follow the link embedded in the title of this article. Click: Louisiana Stage III Shoreline [...]
Dead Bird Islands Cover Louisiana Bay
Lower Mississippi River Keepers, the Louisiana Environmental Action Network and the Pointe Au Chien Indian Tribe discover islands in Timbalier Bay, Louisiana covered with dead birds and a dead sea turtle. Tribal attorneys Patty Ferguson and Joel Waltzer from Waltzer & Wiygul reported the findings to Unified Incident Command. Stuart Smith of Smith & Stagg [...]
Capped and Done!, Doubt It…
By LESLIE EATON And ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON Politicians, environmentalists and lawyers along the Gulf Coast reacted with skepticism Wednesday to a report from the Obama Administration saying that about three-quarters of the oil spilled by a BP PLC well in the Gulf of Mexico has broken down or been cleaned up. The report, which was released [...]
MDL Panel: Case Goes to New Orleans
The Courts just ruled that the BP Deepwater Case will be heard in New Orleans: MDL Opinion EDLA, Barbier.
