Workshop on marine debris in Brazil with an explanation of the actions to prevent the disposal of solid waste in the waters of the oceans. She recalled that at first did not win this issue even among space experts. But the problem of marine debris has been slowly gaining major, inevitably affecting the wildlife and economic activities such as fishing, which became essential to study the matter further.And now, good news: the next day June 5, World Environment Day, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may, at last!, Sanction the National Policy on Solid Waste. This at least is the general expectation among the groups of Brazilian researchers who are dedicated to the issue of marine debris.Confirmed the National Policy on Solid Waste, scientists dedicated to the themes of the sea will leave for new challenges. As an example, the implementation of a national contingency plan capable of preventing the further exploration during the pre-salt deposits of some disasters similar to that now plague the coasts of the United States. In the Gulf, fishermen sick. And bribes under investigation Fishermen of Louisiana, one of the most affected by the current oil pollution, they are sick.Vomiting, severe headaches and other symptoms are affecting workers. Without any condition of fish in polluted waters, losing income and their own livelihoods, they were hired, almost co-opted by the company BP to help us clean-up efforts, to try to curb the environmental disaster. And in this effort, became sick, breathing a huge amount of chemical material released in the waters.In the U.S. network CNN television, the presenter and reporter Anderson Cooper revealed the issue of Tuesday, May 25, that the U.S. federal inspectors responsible for inspection of offshore platforms, accepting bribes and sumptuous meals and expensive tickets tosporting events of major oil companies that they, the inspectors should inspect.In the town of Lake Charles, also in Louisiana, a federal inspector, as "monitor" four offshore platforms, negotiated for himself a job at the oil company. . There in the Gulf of Mexico - Anderson Cooper said - a kind of culture where acceptance of goodies coming from the major oil and gas is widely regarded as "normal."The U.S. Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, ordered to investigate possible failure of federal inspectors for compliance with technical standards and safety on the platform of BP which sank after blow on the last day on April 20, killing 11 workers and causing the presentenvironmental disaster, CNN ends. Oil spill still without control Thousands of barrels of oil still leaking daily, in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the worst oil disaster in the history of this industry. The technical efforts of BP and U.S. environmental authorities have proved futile so far. It is comparable with Chernobyl disaster.This is the introduction of an article in "La Jornada," published, May 25, news agency Carta Maior. The author, journalist Alejandro Nadal, report the problem, from the construction of the Deepwater Horizon, in 2001, in Korean yards .."In September 2009, the Deepwater Horizon drilled the world's deepest underwater, with about 10,700 meters, of which 1,200 correspond