Mark Bittman, the NY Times foodie who is branching out to a weekly column on the Op-Ed page, marks the one year anniversary of the BP Gulf Oil disaster with … [Keep reading >>]
Don’t know how I missed this back when the old man was with us and singing it. Amy Goodman played it today on her Democracy Now one-year review of the … [Keep reading >>]
“Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s plan to block BP Plc’s spilled oil with sand berms, approved after President Barack Obama met with officials, was declared a failure by the staff of a commission … [Keep reading >>]
Very important front page article in the NY Times by Jad Mouawad and Barry Meir on the enormous, deep-drilling and pumping platforms far out at sea — unknown to most … [Keep reading >>]
Like thousands of other people, I’ll be part of the “Hands Across the Sand” nationwide protests against offshore oil drilling this Sunday (June 27). Local events begin at 11 a.m. … [Keep reading >>]
See how the oil spill in the gulf would look over your hometown
via In Perspective: Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster. … [Keep reading >>]
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At about 4:20 Rachel begins her segment on Sarah Palin’s memory damaged assertion that she was always about safe, … [Keep reading >>]
Americans spent $20,461,413,000 dollars on gasoline alone in 2009. That’s at $3 a gallon. A 10% catastrophe tax would bring in about $2,046,141,200 in a year, or $5,605,800 a day. … [Keep reading >>]
Update: Jail time, it seems to me…
WASHINGTON — Internal documents from BP show that there were serious problems and safety concerns with the Deepwater Horizon far earlier … [Keep reading >>]
Too soon to know but initial impressions, at the top, are that the “top kill” is working; the hydrocarbon gusher is slowing.
“They’ve stopped the hydrocarbons from coming up,” National Incident … [Keep reading >>]
