Posts tagged as oil clean-up

If you’re worried about the quality of domestic seafood due to the Gulf oil spill, think twice before you turn to imported seafood as a safer alternative. While many people, such as Change.org’s Sarah Parsons, have been questioning the safety of Gulf seafood, (with food safety officials now employing sniff tests to assess the acceptability of seafood from oil-contaminated areas), few have asked what safety regulations are in place for imported seafood. No matter what your thoughts on the sniff-test method, you should know that imported seafood, which has a lengthy record of safety issues, is barely put to any testing at all. Read more…

Food & Water Watch officially filed a lawsuit in a Houston federal court today. The suit seeks a temporary injunction to halt BP’s Atlantis operations in the Gulf of Mexico. As oil from the Deepwater Horizon continues to leak off the coast of Louisiana, we are reminded that BP continues to operate Atlantis without critical safety documents.  In the meantime, we have launched Spill the Truth, a special website created to warn about the potential dangers of Atlantis and to ask people to take action to help prevent another BP disaster. Read more…

[This is the third of a three-part series exposing the truth about several American companies that have been depicted as leaders of environmental sustainability.]

Finally, let’s turn to Chevron Corporation.  Diamond says he toured several Chevron-managed oil fields in Papua New Guinea, and “not even in any national park” has he seen “such rigorous environmental protection.”  I’d venture a guess that he hasn’t yet visited the Ecuadorian Amazon. Read more…