Events
Screening: “The Cost of Silence” at Half Earth Day Festival (Oct. 25, 2020)
Filmmaker Mark Manning met Riki Ott, a marine toxicologist, in Louisiana in the summer of 2010, when the BP Deepwater Horizon was still gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster would become the largest oil spill in the U.S. at 221 million gallons. Over the next decade, Riki the scientist-activist and Mark the…
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Screening: “A Concerned Citizen” at the Global Peace Film Festival (Sept. 21-Oct.4, 2020)
“A Concerned Citizen” documents the work of Dr. Riki Ott, a citizen activist who helped communities hit by the Exxon Valdez and BP Deepwater Horizon spills document long-term harm to people and wildlife and advance stronger national and state policies. Taking lessons she learned as an active concerned citizen, she developed the Ultimate Civics curriculum…
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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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Live Stream Premiere! BP Oil Spill Survivors Tell Their Stories (March 31, 2020)
Episode 1, March 31 Dr. Riki Ott will join first responders — Louisiana residents who were part of the initial response to the 2010 BP oil disaster and who are now suffering from life-threatening illnesses — to demonstrate that current practices in the U.S oil-spill response plan are unsafe and endanger the health of…
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Tribal Emergency Response Training (June 14, 2020) CANCELED
Canceled due to COVID-19 After presenting at The National Tribal Emergency Management Council (NTEMC) annual conference in Wisconsin in 2019, Dr. Riki Ott was invited to conduct a workshop on Oil Spill Preparation and Response for Response Workers and Leaders of Tribal Communities in the Pacific Northwest at the Northwest Tribal Emergency Management Council Regional Conference,…
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WEBINAR: Spill Voices Calling for Stronger Oil Spill Response
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 1:00 Eastern Time CLICK HERE to register. EPA is taking public comment on its proposed new rules governing the use of dispersants and other chemical and biological products on oil spills in U.S. waters until April 22. The proposed rules have huge implications for spills in fresh water, the Arctic,…
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\Webinar: What’s the Plan? 10 Key Points of the National Contingency Plan for Oil Spills (March 25, 2015)
If you sink oil, you sink oil. If you make it harder to remove, you make it harder to remove. It doesn’t matter whether or not the oil hits the bottom of the ocean “deliberately.” Join Riki Ott, PhD, Wednesday, March 25th for an online discussion on the categorization of “clean-up” agents used in oil…
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Webinar: What’s the Plan? Oil Disasters in Your Backyard (March 11, 2015)
ARCHIVED WEBINAR You’ve seen the news: Explosions. Toxins running down the rivers we drink from. Wildlife coated in black sludge. Trains, boats, and pipelines run through our neighborhoods all across the nation. Do you know who’s responsible in your area when oil spill disaster occurs? Or if there’s even an Area Contingency Plan? Join Riki…
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What’s the Plan? A Webinar Series (March 11-25, 2015)
Long-awaited Public Comment Period Opens It’s been 21 years since the EPA considered the rules that govern Oil Spill Response. In that time, our technologies have advanced significantly, while the rules surrounding them remained unchanged. Dangerous dispersants, unconventional oil and gas, and risky transportaion methods have created perilous, sometimes deadly, situations. NOW IS OUR OPPORTUNITY…
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WATCH: Legal Framework of EPA Rulemaking – Julia LeMense, JD, LLM, MPH
Julia LeMense provides an overview of the environmental and disaster management legal framework. This framework provides the statutory authority and rationale for all emergency environmental planning and response activities, including the National Contingency Plan and subpart J, which is the subject of the EPA’s rulemaking and this series of webinars. Click here to view the…
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