Surfrider Foundation’s network performed more than 9,000 water quality tests in the United States last year. I share that figure to establish the fact that we know water testing.
Water quality tests are performed by Surfrider volunteers all over the globe. They do these tests to make sure local coastal waters are safe. You can read [...]
Water quality testing in the Gulf of Mexico
Jul 29, ’10
9:36 PM
Become part of the solution, like Michael Sturdivant is
Jul 19, ’10
10:00 AM
You may not have heard of Michael Sturdivant but in my book he is a rock star.
When I first watched the video below it stopped me in my tracks. Michael is the Chair of the Emerald Coast chapter of Surfrider Foundation. The Emerald Coast is located in the panhandle region of Florida (near Pensacola) and [...]
How do you clean up an oil spill? BP is now trying paper towels
Jun 19, ’10
11:49 AM
In the seemingly never-ending stream of hard-to-believe strategies for addressing the now 62,000,000 gallons of oil that has spilled BP is now turning to… paper towels.
Sure. Go ahead. Laugh.
Then cry.
The Exxon Valdez was 11,000,000 gallons of oil. The BP spill is coming up on six times the Exxon Valdez.
Those figures have become abstract. We don’t [...]
Dear President Obama
Jun 10, ’10
10:43 AM
President Obama,
For the last 50 days, we’ve watched in horrifying real time, oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. We are heartened when we hear that our government officials want to “keep the boot on the neck of BP.” That provides a good sound byte and offers a nice visual.We understand that the blame game [...]
After 44 days, the BP oil spill in the Gulf has
Jun 3, ’10
1:33 PM
Dumped 48,048,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico (making it 4x Exxon Valdez)
Become the largest environmental disaster in US history
Soiled more than 100 miles of Louisiana and is heading toward Florida’s west and east coasts
Halted new exploratory deep-water drilling in the Gulf
Shut down a third of the Gulf of Mexico’s fishing areas
Please [...]