The study found contamination, sometimes more than 40 years after oil was spilled; community drinking water with dangerous concentrations of benzene and other pollutants; soil contamination more than five metres deep; and evidence of oil firms dumping contaminated soil in unlined pits.
Subra received Global Exchange's 2011 Human Rights Award for her continuing work on the BP spill and communities affected by it.
Application of dispersants in shallow water remains an issue of debate within the spill response community.
As conflict lines have spilled across communities, civilian populations throughout Syria are struggling to survive.
Coordinating with the Hawaii oil spill response community, I developed a sample IAP based on past responses and the Hawaii Area Contingency Plan.
And the peril of refineries spills into communities.
Beth Doane has seen the impact of oil spills on communities, first-hand.
The report has become famous for disclosing Shell's successes and failures in human rights and environmentalism, including oil spills and community protests, as well as the profits and losses of its multibillion-dollar business.
Spill creates virtual communities for anonymous peer-to-peer support among college students.
Veolia has had problems with spills in other communities around the country, Mr. Scow added.
