Deepwater oil moratorium

Obama's jobs council hearts environmental destruction

The Fortune 500 CEOs who make up the president's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness are all about building Keystone XL, reinstating deepwater drilling in the Gulf, and fracking up West Virginia. The idea is that these projects will create jobs and economic growth, at least until there's a disaster of some sort that economically depresses […]

Rachel Maddow helps us all feel more informed, terrified about deepwater drilling

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.10775076&w=425&h=350&fv=launch%3D42485182%26amp%3Bwidth%3D400%26amp%3Bheight%3D320] Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here's Rachel Maddow last week, having a conversation with an anthropomorphic personification of human malevolence known as Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement director Michael Bromwich. (Seriously, the dude is grim. Does the Bureau not have a magical […]

In face of ‘peak everything,’ governments shrug at environmental cost of energy

Less than a year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the U.S. government has begun issuing new permits for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Pundits think that despite a pause in the "nuclear renaissance," the same thing could happen to nuclear power plants in the wake of Fukushima, at least outside the U.S. The […]

Upcoming congressional hearings at which a fetus should testify

Source photo: Lunar CausticThe Ohio state legislature is preparing to hear testimony from a 9-week-old fetus, which I assume will actually be a lawyer making a squeaky voice from behind a picture of an ultrasound. The fetus is testifying about whether it should be able to freeload off a woman’s organs while it’s waiting to […]

The regular person's guide to who's to blame for the BP oil spill

You've heard there's a gigantic plume of toxic muck at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico; you've seen the fouled beaches and even bought the commemorative tar ball tchotchke. But unless you're a policy wonk, you might not have known that there was a commission tasked with figuring out who should go in the stocks for it -- or that yesterday, they issued their final report. Let us walk you through the basics ...

Senator blocks budget director nominee over offshore drilling ban

Jack Lew, the would-be budget director, is sidelined by Louisiana Sen Mary Landrieu's attempts to force Obama to lift the offshore drilling moratorium

Drilling moratorium caused minimal job loss, and other green news

A report released by the Obama administration on Thursday said that the Gulf of Mexico drilling moratorium has had little impact on unemployment.

Senators renew efforts to rein in EPA on regulating greenhouse gases

Well, that didn't take long. Congress is barely back in town and already there's talk of yet another attempt to rein in the EPA.

Congress is back, but can it really pass a Renewable Electricity Standard?

Congress comes back to Washington this week and there's talk that it might actually get serious about setting a national clean energy goal.