Our Work in the Gulf
NRDC's work in the Gulf of Mexico region dates back to Hurricane Katrina. When the storm hit in 2005, our scientists and lawyers worked closely with the hardest-hit communities around New Orleans to advocate for stronger health protections and to help residents safely clean up their homes and neighborhoods. In the wake of the BP oil disaster we remain committed to helping the rich ecological, cultural, and economic center of the Gulf fully recover.
Whether you are a local resident with a story to tell, an organization wishing for assistance with your communications plan, or a journalist seeking to add a new element to the media's coverage of the spill and its impacts, please reach out to us. We are here to work with you to make sure that neither the stories of this disaster nor the lessons we can learn from it are lost.
NRDC Photos from the Gulf on Flickr
Follow What's Happening in the Gulf
Hold Big Oil Accountable
Tell Congress to implement the recommendations of the presidential oil spill commission to prevent another Gulf oil disaster!
More about the Gulf from...
- Stories from the Gulf: NRDC has partnered with StoryCorps and Bridge the Gulf to record, share, and preserve the stories and experiences of those living through the BP oil disaster.
- NRDC's Gulf Spill Coverage
- NRDC on the Ground: Video and Photos
- Go Below the Surface of the Gulf Oil Disaster: An interactive guide to the spill's effects on the ecosystem
- Tracking Oil Washing Ashore on Beaches: Our map of beach closures, advisories, and notifications related to the oil spill
- Rebuilding New Orleans: Health effects in the aftermath of Katrina
- New Orleans Environmental Quality Test Results
NRDC's staff blog
- BP Sees a Return to Grandeur as Gulf Fishermen Reel From Disaster
- posted by Rocky Kistner, 4/27/12
- The second memorial of the nation’s worst oil catastrophe has come and gone, forever linked to ...
- Stories from the Gulf Reveal BP Disaster Still Hurts
- posted by Rocky Kistner, 4/18/12
- “Never let injustice shut you up. When you see injustice you must stand up. It’s going to ...
- BP Oil Disaster Two Years Later: Check-up on Health
- posted by Miriam Rotkin-Ellman, 4/18/12
- It’s been two years since the BP oil disaster brought horrific scenes of oil slicks, dead wildlife, ...
- What if another BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Happened Today?
- posted by David Pettit, 4/18/12
- It’s hard to believe it’s been two years since the worst environmental disaster in US ...
Award-winning journalism
- Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
- posted by Jason Tanz, 4/30/12
- The modern history of ExxonMobil is rife with international intrigue, political and economic misdirection, ...
- Living With the Gulf Oil Disaster, Two Years Later
- posted by David Gessner, 4/20/12
- Many scientists said we'd have to wait a couple of years after the BP blowout to know the disaster's ...
- BP Gets Off Scot-Free, Did Climate Cause the Crucible?, Sweat the Skeptics
- posted by The Editors, 4/20/12
- Fines don’t matter: In an op-ed also published in the New York Times, investigative reporter Abrahm ...
