Tattered Jeans

An oil spill revisited: A fisherman lives day to day in the Louisiana bayou

By Katie Oxford

06.03.13 | 11:07 am

Editor's Note: In 2010, Katie Oxford filed a series of riveting columns from the heart of the Gulf oil spill disaster. She recently returned to Louisiana. This is her eighth column in a series. ...

Secret Oil Spill Cleanup

Secrecy still surrounds Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup: Please don't look at those tar balls!

By Katie Oxford

05.19.13 | 5:01 pm

Editor's Note: In 2010, Katie Oxford filed a series of riveting columns from the heart of the Gulf oil spill disaster. She recently returned to Louisiana. This is her sixth column in a series. ...

Tattered Jeans

Louisiana Revisited: Anger and sadness on Grand Isle as BP oil spill worries continue

By Katie Oxford

05.13.13 | 9:14 am

Editor's Note: In 2010, Katie Oxford filed a series of riveting columns from the heart of the Gulf oil spill disaster. She recently returned to Louisiana. This is her fifth column in a series. ...

Criminal punishment

Is BP paying enough for oil spill? Record $4.5 billion fine, 12 felony counts less than some expected

By Sarah Rufca

11.15.12 | 12:54 pm

British petroleum company BP and the U.S. government have reached an agreement over charges relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and led to the largest oil spill i ...

Tracking Turtles

The fight against the oil spill goes on: Saving the sea turtles on Padre Island

By Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

07.05.12 | 6:44 am

PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE — The species dates back four-million-years and today it's telling us what it needs to survive after one of the worst oil spills in history. ...

Celeb Feud

Finally, someone sues Kevin Costner over Waterworld: Stephen Baldwin sees blood in oily water

By Tyler Rudick

06.06.12 | 11:22 am

While not exactly the trial of the century, the lawsuit between Kevin Costner and Stephen Baldwin certainly does offer up a few laughs — especially in light of the million ...

Main Street Theater Reading: The Way of the Water

04.30.12

Caridad Svich's new play, The Way of the Water, marks the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill with multiple readings across the United States and abroad. The story focuse

Watch It Yourself

Oyster season dies early, but the video of the funeral offers hope against Red Tide

By Caroline Gallay

01.11.12 | 6:27 pm

Oyster season is dead in Texas, according to a new video report released by Texas Parks & Wildlife. One of the longest Red Tide outbreaks in the state's history is letting up, but not i ...

important ecosystem

Healing our waters: The Gulf of Mexico Summit looks at the state of Texas' seawater

By Melissa Gaskill

01.02.12 | 10:30 pm

A host of high-level officials from the federal, state and local governments, scientists from a whopping 66 academic institutions, representatives of businesses such as seafood and oil and gas and ...

Tattered Jeans

Walking with the turtle lady: A look at how sea creatures deal with ecological disaster & human junk

By Katie Oxford

09.22.11 | 11:32 am

Here’s another boots on the ground type — only this one wears sandals.  I met Sharon Maxwell nine years ago while visiting a beach — that sliver of heaven in northwest Fl ...