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…
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…
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…
As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Subsidies David Kocieniewski –New York Times When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at…
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Engineers had to completely uncap the broken oil well spewing into the Gulf of Mexico…
Kate Sheppard – Mother Jones A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday sided with the oil industry, striking down the temporary moratorium on new…
By MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI AP – NEW ORLEANS — It is an overlooked danger in the oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well…
Julia Whitty – Mother Jones Sharon Astyk at ScienceBlogs points the way to a seriously scary comment thread at The Oil Drum, a sounding board…
Editor’s Note: The big push is on for cap-and-trade legislation to be rammed through. Brian Sussman echoes the familiar opinion that the Obama administration is…