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Webinar: Short-and long-term human health impacts of the Wakashio Oil spill (Aug. 25, 2020)
On August 25 at 12:30 PM EDT, Dr. Riki Ott participated in a free webinar panel discussion of short-and long-term human health impacts of the Wakashio oil spill in the Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius. This spill could be a game-changer for use of heavy fuel oil to propel the majority of large ships…
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EPA stalls case
EPA filed a motion requesting that Judge Orrick reconsider his reasoned ruling on our Clean Water Act claim. EPA claimed that the Judge did not specifically address various issues it raised in its motion to dismiss our case. However, the Judge’s written opinion and the hearing transcripts both show that these issues were in…
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ALERT v. EPA makes law! Ruling a “game-changer”
June 2, 2020. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Orrick ruled that the Clean Water Act requires the EPA to keep the nation’s oil spill response plans current and effective. New research has linked chemical dispersants, heavily used during the 2010 BP spill response, with long-term illnesses in humans and wildlife. The EPA has failed to consider…
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Surviving the BP Oil Spill // Ep. 3 // Documenting the Harm
For episode 3, Riki Ott hosts those who have dedicated years to documenting the human health impacts of the BP oil spill. This weeks’s guests include: Lesley Pacey, a Mobile Register reporter whose daughter Sarah was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia at age 4 in 2004. Since Sarah’s diagnosis, Pacey founded and directs the Eastern…
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Surviving the BP oil spill // Ep. 2 // Women on the front line
For the second episode of our series, “10 Years Surviving the BP Oil Spill” Dr. Riki Ott joins residents of coastal communities in Alabama and western Florida: Captain Lori DeAngelis, who ran dolphin viewing charters before and after the BP oil disaster in western Florida and has experienced physical and mental health trauma as her…
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Surviving the BP Oil Spill // Ep. 1 // Louisiana First Responders
Throughout the 10th anniversary month of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we are hosting a series of live interviews to raise awareness about the ongoing suffering and chronic illnesses of those who lived and worked near the disaster. Studies now show that chemicals used by the government to “clean up” the spill form a…
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Press Conference: Connecting the Dots Between Long-Term Illness and the BP Oil Spill
In anticipation of the anniversary date of the 2010 BP oil spill, Marine Toxicoligist and environmental activist riki ott held a press conference on March 25, 2020, to break down the scientific evidence linking oil dispersants (used on oil spills) to long-term illness in communities surrounding oil disasters.
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ALERT to interview Gulf residents for British Petroleum (BP) oil disaster memorial during April
Our series of live streams “Gulf voices & why we need to listen,” is part of our project to expose long-term illnesses and deaths following the BP oil disaster and highlight the urgent need for national policy reform. Background photo of the 2010 BP oil spill by Julie Dermansky. Ten years since British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill,…
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ALERT featured in ‘The Cost of Silence’ — Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival
“The Cost of Silence,” Mark Manning’s new film documenting widespread and still ongoing human illnesses in the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, and featuring ALERT’s work, premiered as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, 2020 in Park City, Utah. National Resource Defense Council, in partnership with Entertainment Weekly featured ALERT…
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ALERT announces lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency
After eight years of preparation and waiting, The ALERT Project has officially sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its outdated National Contingency Plan, the nation’s emergency response plan for oil spills. The Plan was last updated in 1994 – 26 years ago. Oil companies are supposed to have viable plans to respond…
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