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The Associated Press: The massive BP oil spill might have contributed indirectly to the unusually high number of young dolphins dying in the Gulf of Mexico recently, a University of Central Florida marine researcher said Thursday. The oil, and dispersants used to clean up the spill, may have disrupted the food chain and prevented dolphin [...]

The Clarion-Ledger: Gulf Coast advocates urged lawmakers Tuesday to support efforts to help the region recover from last year’s oil spill by backing legislation giving their states most of the money BP will pay in fines. “I don’t want them to dither around and not get forward momentum with the legislation because they can’t agree,” [...]

First-term representative talks about his accomplishments as a member of the state House From Better Mississippi Report JACKSON – Sate Rep. Brandon Jones has done a great job keeping in touch with his constituents in Jackson County – continuing his efforts with an impressive newsletter which many people received by U.S. Postal Service mail today [...]

The Associated Press: Scientists say it is taking far too long to dole out millions of dollars in BP funds for badly needed Gulf oil spill research, and it could be too late to assess the crude’s impact on pelicans, shrimp and other species by the time studies begin. The spring nesting and spawning season [...]

The Associated Press BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year’s calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that negligence by both helped cause the disaster. The British company said in papers filed in federal court in New Orleans that it is [...]

Mississippi Public Broadcasting: It’s unusual for James A. “Catfish” Miller to be sick. He’s a fisherman and likes to be on the water. So after the oil spill, when the waters were closed for fishing, Miller started working for BP’s Vessels of Opportunity, called the VOO program. “I was working for the VOO program on [...]

The Associated Press: Scientists judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature’s resiliency, an Associated Press survey of researchers shows. More than three dozen scientists grade the Gulf’s big picture health a [...]

The Sun Herald: With the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster approaching, Gov. Haley Barbour, in the final year of his final term in office, shared his thoughts in an interview with the Sun Herald. How badly was Mississippi damaged, environmentally and financially, by the oil disaster? We were seriously hurt economically. How badly [...]

The Sun Herald: A year after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and the BP oil spill began, people on the Coast are still feeling the effects, though in ways that are different from the early months of the spill. Here are some of their stories. Rose Johnson, founder and executive director of the North Gulfport [...]

The Sun Herald: The Gulf Coast Claims Facility has proven impenetrable for many people and businesses awaiting compensation for BP oil catastrophe losses. “This is awful,” said Larry Wade, who owns Dino’s Gifts in Ocean Springs and Foley, Ala. “They are just running rampant over the people of the Gulf. This is widespread. “This is [...]