Surviving the BP Oil Spill // Ep. 3 // Documenting the Harm

April 14, 2020

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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ALERT featured in ‘The Cost of Silence’ — Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival

March 10, 2020

“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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