Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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Amanda Little Needs to Rinse the Oil Out of Her Brain
I’ve always loved Amanda Little’s writing – and her news-breaking, hard-hitting interviews. But her latest incarnation as a “pro-drilling environmentalist,” while clearly well-meaning, is so divorced from the economic and political reality of oil that it deserves an open plea to escape what is clearly too much time spent in the barrel of Big Oil’s […]
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What Gulf spill? Around the world, deepwater drilling keeps on keepin’ on
Deepwater drilling continues around the world, despite the Gulf disaster.
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BP photoshops clean-up command center picture
From Iranian missile tests to George W. Bush campaign ads, using Photoshop to make yourself look better is anything but innovative. Even more so because if you cut corners (literally and figuratively), you’ll probably get caught and wish you could photoshop yourself out of an awkward PR situation. BP is already in a bad enough […]
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BP Fails to Make Top Ten
Fingers crossed. BP’s oil leak has apparently stopped shy of 200 million gallons spewed into the Gulf of Mexico and a few million more burned off into plumes of toxic smoke. Many have dubbed it the worst environmental disaster in American history. In my view, it’s not even close, but shares a great deal in […]
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Accept more poison to get less carbon? Kill this crazy idea NOW
With an increase in industry’s toxic pollutants, will this be the fate of our water sources? In exchange for cutting their carbon emissions, power plants want to undermine the EPA and get permission to increase other kinds of dangerous pollution. They even want the go-ahead to dump more sulfur and deadly mercury into our air […]
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The Gulf Coast joins an oil-soiled planet
More oil is spilled in the Niger Delta every year than has been spilled in the Gulf so far.Photo courtesy Amnesty International Italia via FlickrThis essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil — and […]
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The next phase of the Gulf oil disaster: lawyers and lobbyists descend
Watch out: They’re coming …We’ve gone from a gush to a seep in the Gulf. Sounds like progress. But in some ways, things are only beginning to get oily. This is the part where the lawyers and the lobbyists come in. What’s ours is ours: Let’s start with a report from the Mobile Press-Register that […]
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BP launches effort to control scientific research of oil disaster
If BP has its way, important scientific research and data could be closed off to the public.Photo courtesy Greenpeace USA 2010 via FlickrCross-posted from Think Progress. Foreign oil giant BP is on a spending spree, buying Gulf Coast scientists for its private contractor army. Scientists from Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, and Texas A&M […]
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A deepwater drilling moratorium might be a bad idea for Louisiana
We can’t all go cold turkey.This article is part of a special issue of The Nation magazine about green energy, “Freedom From Oil.” PORT SULPHUR, La. — Captain Pete, as everyone in town calls him, has been an oysterman nearly his entire life. He started as a boy, learning the trade from his father, who […]