Administration Writes BP Demanding Confirmation US Taxpayers Not Liable
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar have written the following letter to British Petroleum demandi...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar have written the following letter to British Petroleum demandi...
Let's use the Deepwater Horizon disaster as the impetus we need as a nation to really and truly shoot for being oil-free by 2030.
It was an eerie feeling -- both being so close to the site of the tragedy and standing on an ocean coated with oil. It gave the water a weird sheen and a strange smoothness -- the wind didn't ripple the water like it usually would.
As oil pours into the gulf, Obama smacks down the responsible CEOs. And the question is asked, with nearly every borough of New York represented on the high court, what happened to diversity?
Dateline: Monday, Venice, Louisiana I spent last Monday touring part of Louisiana coast, talking with media covering the BP oil spill, and meeting wi...
The Senate has actually been dealing with many financial issues that will directly effect American consumers, and they've been doing so in an orderly way. You'd think this would be news.
A photo I posted earlier for an update on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill reminds me of another Gulf War: Here's a photo of the oil fields on fire in ...
BP is now opting to use an insertion tube to contain the oil leak off the Gulf Coast. The device has been lowered to the ocean floor and BP hopes to have it in place in the next 24 hours.
State, federal and oil company contracted scientists conclude that the Gulf air is untainted: "Who are you going to believe, us or your lying noses?"
While I am sickened by the events of Deepwater Horizon, my gut tells me we are at a tipping point, an "all hands on deck" moment. I truly hope I'm right, because we need it more than ever.
We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony.
Face it. Technology changes. And the petroleum-based economy is dead. It's built on antiquated technology that's killing us and our planet. Now quit your whinging, get over it, and move on.
The massive oil spill will continue to pollute the Gulf coast communities, estuaries and marshes. And it will harm and likely kill some, perhaps many, of the area's endangered species.
As lawsuits continue to mount against BP and Transocean, both companies are engaging in full scale efforts to limit their liability for the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig.
Hold on, let me get this straight: Bush gave the keys to the castle to a marauding bunch of plunderers by gutting every regulatory commission known to man -- and now the country seems ready for the Republicans again? How quickly we forget.
The "cozy relationship" between government and industry that Obama denounced today in the Rose Garden may indeed be a "ridiculous spectacle," but it is hardly an accident. On the contrary. It was sedulously cultivated by Bush and Cheney.
The Gulf oil spill of 2010 is certain to change the oil industry forever -- but by how much? Oil company lobbyists are already busy working hard to mitigate future damage to their businesses by courting elected officials in response to this crisis.
Chevron, the third largest corporation in America, is now hauling out their lawyers in a case that would undermine the right of journalists to protect the people by telling them the truth.
As the predictions for the aftermath of the Gulf Coast spill grow bleaker, it is imperative that plans to drill on the Arctic Coast be halted immediately.
The important question, which has gone unanswered, is are we minimizing the damage to our planet by using these dispersants, or are we adding to the mess?
Now we learn that the U.S. Mineral Mining Service issued permits to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico despite warnings from the National Oceanograph...
