Natural Resource Damage Assessment News

BP Oil Spill Caused $17.2 Billion in Natural Resource Damage: Virginia Tech Scientists

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in …

Bottom Line: Gulf Oil Spill Isn’t an Environmental Disaster

In early March a 30,000-pound mat of oily gunk washed up on East Grand Terre, a barrier island in the mouth of Louisiana’s Barataria Bay. It was an ugly reminder of the blowout at BP’s Macondo well, a disaster that …