{"id":572175,"date":"2010-05-20T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2782"},"modified":"2010-05-20T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T13:26:45","slug":"oil-spill-update-one-month-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/572175","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spill Update: One Month Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        One month ago today, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast, causing 11 tragic deaths (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/05\/16\/60minutes\/main6490197.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">some incredible stories of survival<\/a>) and what may be the worst environmental disaster of our time. The news from the Gulf is mixed; oil continues gushing from the ocean floor, but has yet to decimate the Gulf coast as severely as some feared. Scientists remain hopeful that they can staunch the leak, despite the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/16\/us\/16oil.html\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">initial figures on the amount of oil pouring daily from the sunken tanker were probably gross underestimates<\/a>. As engineers and scientists continue to try everything from &#8220;top hats&#8221; to &#8220;junk shots&#8221; to stop the oil, you can keep up with updates from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usclimatenetwork.org\/policy\/bp-gulf-coast-oil-spill\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">US Climate Action Network<\/a> and here on the RAC Blog. Or, if you prefer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-may-13-2010\/there-will-be-blame\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Jon Stewart offers<\/a> up this concise summary of cleanup efforts thus far.<br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br>There are many ways to help including <a href=\"http:\/\/action.sierraclub.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=20100429VolunterGulfCoastOilSpill&amp;autologin=true\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">donating time<\/a>, energy, and resources to show solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the Gulf Coast region. Jewish Funds for Justice opened their disaster relief fund immediately after the spill began and hopes to be disburse funds to local projects as soon as they are ready to get to work; if you are able, please <a href=\"https:\/\/secure3.convio.net\/jfsj\/site\/Donation2?idb=0&amp;df_id=1480&amp;1480.donation=form1&amp;autologin=true&amp;JServSessionIdr004=yg39zigw02.app333b\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">donate today<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/action.sierraclub.org\/site\/PageNavigator\/adv_oilspill_events\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">look for solidarity events<\/a> in your community in the coming weeks. We&#8217;ll post more opportunities to help here as they arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month ago today, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast, causing 11 tragic deaths (and some incredible stories of survival) and what may be the worst environmental disaster of our time. The news from the Gulf is mixed; oil continues gushing from the ocean floor, but has yet to decimate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}