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Obama’s offshore oil drilling plan shows he’s already looking to 2012
Er, we mean 'Vote Barack Obama' (Image by mermadon 1967 via Flickr) Remember when John McCain and Sarah Palin’s whole energy plan for America could be summed up by the three words bleated by tens of...
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At least 25 dead in Montcoal, West Virginia coal mine disaster
Sad news breaking late in the day of a coal mine collapse in West Virginia, via MSNBC’s @BreakingNews. From WSAZ. Subsequent reporting indicates up to 25 dead with 4 still unaccounted for: It is a...
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Obama shares blame for failing to prevent Gulf of Mexico oil spill
There’s been a long-standing contest to see which crisis would become “Obama’s Katrina.” The sinking last week of the Deepwater Horizon, the Gulf of Mexico-based offshore oil drilling platform, may be...
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Deepwater Horizon owner invokes 1851 law to fight oil spill liability
The Summerland Offshore Oil Field in the early 1900s via Wikipedia According to the good people at the Miami Herald, Deepwater Horizon owner Transocean is invoking an obscure piece of maritime law to...
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Following Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulf of Mexico, MMS split into three...
At the end of April I blogged about how the Minerals Management Service at the Department of Interior bore a fair amount of responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that is gushing a horrific...
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BP agrees that Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an ‘environmental catastrophe’
This morning my breaking news alerts include the following: BP’s top official upgrades impact of Gulf oil spill from “very modest” to “environmental catastrophe.” That’s from CNN where they are quoting...
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BP better at search engine tricks than stopping Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Via Logosense So, pretty much every effort undertaken by BP thus far to plug the endless oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has failed. But where their underwater engineers are failing, at least the SEO...
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BP’s removal of Tony Hayward as CEO could be bad news for Gulf oil spill
Image via Wikipedia Word leaked out tonight via the Times of London that BP’s yachting CEO Tony Hayward is set to get back as much of his life as he’d like – he’ll step down as CEO within 10 weeks,...
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Proof that nuking the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a terrible idea
Remember when our Julia Ioffe picked up the Russian media that was suggesting that America might want to take a page from the Soviet Union’s history books and nuke the site of the Deepwater Horizon...
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If only BP CEO Tony Hayward’s accent was the problem
Following up on my blog post earlier this week, it would appear to be closer to confirmed that BP is attempting to set up a graceful exit for yacht-loving, personal-time-needing CEO Tony Hayward. BBC...
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