{"id":5856,"date":"2014-07-27T18:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2021-05-19T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:04:11","slug":"local-10-com-panhandle-cleaning-up-weathered-oil-from-bp-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2014\/07\/27\/local-10-com-panhandle-cleaning-up-weathered-oil-from-bp-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Local 10.com: Panhandle cleaning up weathered oil from BP spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h2>Over 1,700 pounds of weathered oil from 2010 BP spill being cleaned up off Florida Panhandle<\/h2>\n<div>Author: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.local10.com\/22811962\">Associated Press<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Published On:\u00a0Jul 26 2014 05:59:20 PM EDT<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>PENSACOLA, Fla. -Florida Panhandle officials are cleaning up over 1,700 pounds of weathered oil from the 2010 BP oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>The large submerged mat of oil mixed with sand, shells and water just off the Gulf Islands National Seashore&#8217;s Fort Pickens beach is being removed by a cleanup crew digging it up by hand.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Natalie Murphy tells <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/on.pnj.com\/1nppAvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Pensacola News Journal<\/a> that frequent thunderstorms and lightning have hampered the cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The mat discovered a month ago is estimated to be roughly 32 feet long and 9 feet wide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Richard Charter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,700 pounds of weathered oil from 2010 BP spill being cleaned up off Florida Panhandle Author: Associated Press Published On:\u00a0Jul 26 2014 05:59:20 PM EDT PENSACOLA, Fla. -Florida Panhandle officials are cleaning up over 1,700 pounds of weathered oil from the 2010 BP oil spill. The large submerged mat of oil mixed with sand, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2014\/07\/27\/local-10-com-panhandle-cleaning-up-weathered-oil-from-bp-spill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local 10.com: Panhandle cleaning up weathered oil from BP spill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulf-of-mexico-clean-up","category-gulf-restoration","category-oil-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6111,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions\/6111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}