{"id":2731,"date":"2011-04-20T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2011-04-21T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T14:36:39","slug":"bp-oil-disaster-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/04\/20\/bp-oil-disaster-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"BP Oil Disaster One Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2734\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/04\/BPOil-Slick-Cleanup_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2734\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/04\/BPOil-Slick-Cleanup_sm.jpg\" alt=\"BP Oil Spill clean up in the Gulf of Mexico.\" width=\"311\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/04\/BPOil-Slick-Cleanup_sm.jpg 311w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/04\/BPOil-Slick-Cleanup_sm-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BP Oil disaster clean up site in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today marks the one year anniversary of the tragic BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil well blowout took 11 lives and likely forever changed the rich marine ecosystem of the Gulf. After\u00a087 days and over four million barrels of oil released, the spewing well was finally capped, but not before it killed thousands of birds and other marine life and caused additional hardship for fishermen and coastal communities during an already-struggling economy.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back a year later on the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, efforts to fully restore the environmental and economic health of the Gulf and its coastal communities continue. As EDF\u2019s Chief Oceans Scientist, Doug Rader, explains in the Austin Statesman, \u201cA full year after the blowout, we are still struggling, as a society, to assess the ecological and human costs from our nation\u2019s worst oil disaster, to understand how to heal \u2013 or offset \u2013 the worst damage, and to limit future risks associated with America\u2019s offshore energy industries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read Doug Rader\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/opinion\/insight\/gulf-spill-reveals-environmental-blind-spot-1390706.html\" target=\"_blank\">full opinion article<\/a> as well as recent EDF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/pressrelease.cfm?ContentID=11720\" target=\"_blank\">press releases<\/a> on pending legislation for the Gulf of Mexico restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2011\/04\/BPOil-Slick-Cleanup_sm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the one year anniversary of the tragic BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil well blowout took 11 lives and likely forever changed the rich marine ecosystem of the Gulf. After 87 days and over four million barrels of oil released, the spewing well was finally capped, but not before it killed thousands of birds and other marine life and caused additional hardship for fishermen and coastal communities during an already-struggling economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/04\/20\/bp-oil-disaster-one-year-later\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[986,72531,5199,975],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bp","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-gulf-oil-disaster","tag-oil-spill"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BP Oil Disaster One Year Later - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/04\/20\/bp-oil-disaster-one-year-later\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BP Oil Disaster One Year Later - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today marks the one year anniversary of the tragic BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. 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