Five Years of Enbridge Oil in the Kalamazoo - An Interview with Michelle Barlond Smith
Last week marked the fifth anniversary of the largest inland oil spill in the history of the United States. On July 25th, 2010, Line 6B,...
BP, ChemRisk and a Lack of Disclosure on So-Called “Independent” Cleanup Worker Health Study
Photo: Workers clean oiled boom, summer 2010 Since working cleanup after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, crabber Ralph Foster, of...
Trying Not To Drown With The Ship - The Oystermen Of Pointe-A-La-Hache, Louisiana
BY: KAREN SAVAGE “I really can’t explain how bad it is,” he said, looking across the desolate marina. Byron Encalade grew up on the East...
Four Years After the BP Disaster, Vietnamese Oyster Fishermen and Shrimpers Struggle to Survive
Photo: Gulf of Mexico based fisherfolk Tuat Nguyen (right) and husband Bien Do, still struggling through adverse health and economic...
An American Nightmare: The Community Wedgewood
PHOTO: One of seven landfill facilities near the Pensacola, Florida, community of Wedgewood. By: Karen Savage PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - “My...
Railroaded! A Tale of Two Communities
PHOTO: Residents rail against coal trains at a Gretna City Council meeting. PHOTOS & STORY BY KAREN SAVAGE. New Orleans, LA - “What is...
Fighting Back! Leg Two of the Life Support Project's Gulf Coast Summer Tour
We kicked off the second leg of the Life Support Project’s Summer Gulf Coast Tour with a visit to the Ironton and Myrtle Grove...
It Begins! Life Support Gulf Coast Summer Tour - Heading Out
Aliceville, AL, fuel by rail explosion still in need of clean-up. When the idea of the Life Support Project was first conceived, we knew...
On The Road...
Ada McMahon was kind enough to create this video for us early on in the life of the project. It follows me on a trip out to Plauemines...