A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, along the the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) # Yesterday, the Department of the Interior‘s (DOI) Inspector General (IG) released its investigation into the Lake Charles District Office of …
After realizing he stepped in it with Rachel Maddow over his stance that private business should be exempted from the Civil Rights law, Rand Paul went on Good Morning America and in this account by TPM, tried to steer: …the conversation toward something more recent, President Obama’s criticism of BP following the oil spill. Paul said: “This sort of, you …
BP CEO Tony “Tin Ear” Hayward Unfrakkin believable: BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill The Guardian, Friday 14 May 2010 […] In an bullish interview with the Guardian at BP’s crisis centre in Houston, Hayward insisted that the leaked oil and the estimated 400,000 gallons of dispersant that BP has pumped into the sea to …
Louisiana wildlife officials say huge effin’ tar balls have begun washing up on the beach at Port Fourchon, some of them eight inches across.
Yesterday during my daily sorta nature walk, I made the mistake of tuning into NPR. First thing I hear is the breaking news that the scientists they hired to estimate the amount of oil gushing from the BP rupture could easily be 14x the previous estimate, equal to the amount of the Exxon Valdez oil spill every four days. It …
…IS NOT ENOUGH. How much longer before we finally realize that Corporations— individual citizens— will never be responsible stewards of the earth’s natural resources. The people of this nation OWN it’s resources; only a moral people will care enough to protect our country, our oceans, our air, our water— our world— from the ravages of the greed, arrogance, and stupidity …
And after listening to several grown Republican men whine about Nancy Pelosi, it’s abundantly clear who the real pussies are on Capital Hill. Poor things!
