Welcome to the Results of TransOcean’s Record Safety Year

Republicans are busy today with their attempts to dismantle the EPA because, after all, they stop businesses from doing so much business, right?  No reason told businesses back, is there?  Those paragons of job creation and responsibility are just drowning in EPA regulation.   Meanwhile, dead dolphins, drowning in BP oil continue to wash ashore down here in Louisiana. Ask me why I haven’t eaten anything from the Gulf for months now. Aren’t you glad Transocean had the best safety year evah?

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that eight months after the Deepwater Horizon oil well was capped, dolphins are washing ashore in east Louisiana with some oil from that spilled on their bodies.

Spokeswoman Kim Amendola says the dolphins had spots of weathered oil.

Blair Mase — NOAA’s Gulf Coast stranding coordinator — emphasizes there’s no way yet to know why the dolphins died. She says the most recent dolphin bearing BP oil was found two weeks ago.

Mase says 15 dolphins with confirmed or suspected oil on their bodies washed ashore since the spill began last April — and eight had oil from that well, which was capped July 15.

I thought we got told that little miracle microbes ate it all.  Get the feeling NOAA is covering up stuff again?

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Dolphins accidentally drowned by scientists trawling in Gulf

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says federal scientists trawling for fish to test for possible damage from last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill accidentally caught and drowned three dolphins.

Spokeswoman Connie Barclay says the pantropical spotted dolphins were caught Wednesday by scientists on the NOAA research ship Pisces, which works out of Pascagoula, Miss.

She said Friday that NOAA is reviewing the incident and will conduct an enforcement investigation.