Gulf Oil Still Gushing After Cap Efforts Suddenly Halted
Associated Press NEW ORLEANS – The plan to start choking off oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly halted as government officials and…
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Where Are the Respirators?
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones Progressive groups and fisherman are attacking the Obama administration for not protecting cleanup workers in the Gulf from hazardous oil and…
BP to cut payments on 40,000 claims of individuals affected by oil spill, cites paperwork problems
Meena Hartenstein NY Daily News BP‘s latest move isn’t going to win the beleaguered oil giant any popularity points. As oil continues to spew into…
Doomsday: How BP Gulf Disaster May Have Triggered “World-Killing” Event
Terrance Aym Helium How to Save a Dying Ocean Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding…
Is the Oil Spill Staged?
EU Times “We are not the enemy here.”—Anderson Cooper, CNN reporter (referring to the media blackout surrounding the oil spill) Let me say up front that,…
New BP Data Show 20% of Gulf Spill Responders Exposed to Chemical That Sickened Valdez Workers
Elana Schor The New York Times In an under-the-radar release of new test results for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill workers, BP PLC is…
BP Ignoring Dispersant Directives With the Coast Guard’s Consent
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones So much for the May 26 directive from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Coast Guard calling for BP to slash dispersant…
Mississippi Hit by Tar Mats the ‘Size of School Buses’
Sun Herald GEOFF PENDER, MELISSA SCALLAN and DONNA MELTON LONG BEACH — What appeared to be the largest amount of oily tar to hit the…
US Appeals Court Opens Door to New Oil Drilling in Gulf
Federal appeals court rejects government efforts to restore moratorium on offshore deepwater drilling after BP oil spill Associated Press A US appeals court has rejected…
Enviro groups stunned that govt ignoring 27K wells
Jeff Donn and Mitch Weiss AP Leading environmental groups and a U.S. senator on Wednesday called on the government to pay closer attention to…
MASSIVE ‘Dead Zone’ May Be Worse Than Oil Spill Damage
Carolyn Lochhead San Francisco Chronicle While the BP oil spill has been labeled the worst environmental catastrophe in recent U.S. history, a biofuel is contributing…
API: We Like Our Handouts!
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones The Gulf oil disaster has created some impetus in Congress to reduce the lavish subsidies granted to oil companies to incentivize…
Gulf Oil Spill Under the Control of NATO
NATO Orders All “Critical Assets” Moved 100 Miles Inland From Gulf Oil Spill Region by Europe EUTimes.net A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today…
Photos of BP Failures Could be a Felony
Hot Tweet: Photographers Feel Rights Threatened by BP Sarah Gilbert DailyFinance Taking photographs of failed oil booms — which trap oil in coastal waterways,…