Other Resources

Here are some other information sources relevant to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and safer offshore drilling:

•  The Online Clearinghouse for Education And Networking – Oil Interdisciplinary Learning (OCEAN-OIL), which is a peer-reviewed collection of scientific information and educational resources about the Deepwater Horizon disaster and its broader energy and environmental issues.

• Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, Final Report, Dec, 2011

• National Academy of Engineering, Macondo Well–Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Lessons for Improving Offshore Drilling Safety, 2011

• The Joint Investigation (Department of Interior and Coast Guard) Task Force Reports:
• Cover Memo
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Appendices
• USCG Final Action Memo and its attachments

• The Mabus Report:  America’s Gulf Coast: A Long Term Recovery Plan after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

•  The provisions of the RESTORE Act incorporated into HR 4348 as enacted.Final Restore Act

• The Government Accountability Office Report on The Department of Interior’s Reorganization

• The American Wetlands Foundation’s report on restoration needs in the Gulf entitled Beyond Unintended Consequences

• The Ocean Conservancy’s Gulf environmental atlas entitled The Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem: A Coastal and Marine Atlas

• NOAA’s list of the third set of proposed Early Restoration Projects