(CNN) – More than 1,200 NASA workers will be laid off Friday, despite Congress passing a $19 billion budget for the space agency two days earlier. Lori Garver, NASA’s deputy administrator, said Thursday she didn’t believe the bill would affect planned layoffs, "certainly not for tomorrow." Thursday was the last[Read More…]
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Resource Restoration Planning Process Begins for BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2010. The Department of the Interior, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the co-trustees for natural resources affected by the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill announced yesterday they have started the injury assessment and restoration planning phase of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment, a legal process to determine[Read More…]
Statement by President Obama on the Long-Term Recovery Plan After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2010. “I appreciate the hard work, led by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, to develop this recovery and restoration plan for the Gulf Coast. The BP oil spill has created significant environmental and economic challenges for the region. My Administration is committed to working with the people of[Read More…]
Press Briefing by Federal On-Scene Coordinator Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft, September 28, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2010. Paul Zukunft: Well, good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. And again, it’s great to be joined by NOAA, our scientific support coordinator, and also with David who represents academia as we look at this phase of the operation, as we look at what’s below the[Read More…]
NOAA Seafood Sampling and Testing Priorities for Federal Closed Area
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2010. NOAA’s Fisheries Service first prohibited commercial and recreational fishing in federal waters impacted by the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill as a seafood safety measure in early May. The closed area was 88,522 square miles or 37 percent of the Gulf of Mexico federal waters at its[Read More…]
Press Briefing by Federal On-Scene Coodinator Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft, September 27, 2010
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—September 27, 2010. Paul Zukunft: Well, good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. And again, it’s great to be joined by NOAA, our scientific support coordinator, and also with David who represents academia as we look at this phase of the operation, as we look at what’s below the[Read More…]
Unified Area Command Weekly Update, September 24, 2010
NEW ORLEANS–(ENEWSPF)–Sept. 24, 2010. The following information is an operations update from the Unified Area Command for the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Approximately 22,632 personnel are currently responding to protect the shoreline, wildlife and cleanup vital coastlines. Currently, 1,381 vessels are responding on site, including skimmers, tugs,[Read More…]
Officials, Native American Leaders Discuss Deepwater Horizon Response Operations
NEW ORLEANS–(ENEWSPF)–September 23, 2010. An historic government-to-government tribal consultation was held in New Orleans Sept. 17, 2010. Initiated and hosted by Federal On-Scene Coordinator Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, the meeting was the largest of several inter-governmental consultations between federally recognized American Indian tribes and the federal government to[Read More…]
Press Briefing by Federal On-Scene Coodinator Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft, September 21, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 21, 2010. Paul Zukunft: OK, good afternoon everybody. This is Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft, Federal on-scene coordinator and I’ve down here for over 3-1/2 months now and I’ve been overseeing the response aspect of this operation. In my operation and in Admiral Allen’s, we’re split between surface and[Read More…]
NOAA Reopens Nearly 8,000 Square Miles in the Gulf of Mexico to Fishing
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 21, 2010. NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 7,970 square miles of Gulf waters along the southern boundary of the federal closed area. This area is about 60 nautical miles off of central Louisiana and about 140 nautical miles off Mississippi, Alabama, and the western edge[Read More…]
