Miles Grant’s Archive

BP Still Stonewalling EPA on Dispersant Chemicals

BP is still refusing to reveal exactly what’s in that dispersant. Like so many aspects of BP’s oil spill response, the redacted passages would be comical if the disaster wasn’t so serious.
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NWF’s Larry Schweiger Talks BP Oil Spill on MSNBC

  View the video of NWF’s president on MSNBC. For all the latest news on how the oil spill is impacting the Gulf Coast’s wildlife & to learn how you … Read more

Nestlé Proves Every Voice Counts

This week Nestlé responded to public demand that it stop buying palm oil—an ingredient in products from Kit Kat bars to Pringles—from areas of tropical deforestation. This decision followed two months … Read more

BP Cover-Up Begins to Unravel

“In Washington, it’s been said that ‘it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up’ – but in this case, it’s both the crime and the cover-up that are an outrage,” said NWF President & CEO Larry Schweiger. Read more

Forecast Florida: BP Oil Spill Now Being Tracked in Two Directions

NOAA’s BP oil spill response page is now featuring not one but two BP oil spill maps. The first one highlights the projected devastation in Louisiana, where winds from the … Read more

BP Executive: Oil Spill “Impossible to Measure”

When you’re sitting in a stuffy Congressional hearing for up to eight hours, it can be hard to pinpoint the most critical moments. (OK, it can be hard to stay … Read more

Speak for the Trees

Make your voice heard! Last week, supporters sent thousands of messages to the United States Senate asking their senators to tell Majority Leader Reid to include funding to protect rainforests … Read more

Climate Records Fall & A Titanic Disaster: Watch This Week’s NWF Climate Capsule

In this week’s NWF Climate Capsule, rising temperatures shatter climate records, progress on a Senate clean energy & climate bill, and Dirty the Sock Puppet compares the BP oil spill disaster to the Titanic. Read more

Tar Balls Wash Ashore in Florida Keys

Two alarming new pieces of evidence that the BP oil spill is spreading well beyond the Gulf Coast. The first is this photo from NASA, showing a plume of oil … Read more

New Data: Climate Records Crumbled in April

April was one of the most alarming months ever for global warming. The startling details from NASA & NOAA: Read more