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BP Two Years Later: Searching for alternatives in New Orleans East

By Chris Kromm

April 20, 2012 - By 2010, the New Orleans East community had become a success story of the post-Katrina recovery, and more than 60 percent of the neighborhood had returned. And then, with the BP oil spill, disaster struck again.

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TROUBLED WATERS: Two years into BP's oil disaster, Gulf communities struggle to recover

By Chris Kromm

April 20, 2012 - On the two-year anniversary of BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion, an in-depth Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report takes a ground-level look at why communities are still struggling to cope and rebuild.

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BP 2-Year Anniversary: Searching for Hope, Struggling for Survival in the Gulf

By Chris Kromm

April 20, 2012 - The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls for National Leadership for Recovery." Read the full report here [pdf].

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BP 2-Year Anniversary: What can be done to restore the Gulf?

By Chris Kromm

April 20, 2012 - The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls for National Leadership for Recovery." Read the full report here [pdf]. TROUBLED WATERS: A Community Blueprint for Gulf Renewal By Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm

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BP 2-Year Anniversary: Gulf still sick from BP oil disaster

By Chris Kromm

April 20, 2012 - The following is an excerpt from the Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, A Struggling Gulf Coast Calls for National Leadership for Recovery." Read the full report here [pdf].

Blaming the Victims

By Gary Ashwill

May 18, 2005 - Taking a page from the Pentagon's Abu Ghraib playbook, BP Amoco has decided where the blame lies for the deadly March 23 blast at its Texas City refinery: with a few bad apples "low-