Gingrey Has A Dynamite Idea
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R) is a member of the House Energy Committee. As such, it behooves him to look for solutions to the ongoing BP oil spill disaster. (Especially since the Republican Party is...
View ArticlePresidential Voodoo Spells?
The prevailing wisdom used to be: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” But Rand Paul believes that words can indeed hurt the corporate citizens of the world. That the...
View ArticleAP’s Thoroughly Misconceived PR Considerations Insinuation
AP, yesterday: With the newly installed cap keeping oil from BP’s fractured well out of the Gulf during a trial run, this weekend offered a chance for the oil company and government to gloat over their...
View ArticleDoes This Scientific Method Pass The Smell Test?
AP: Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government’s assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy...
View ArticleWhere Has All The Oil Gone, Long Time Passing
Once BP managed to cap the well that had gushed millions and millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we started to see media reports that most of the oil had magically vanished. This is the...
View ArticleHuge Triumph for BP
After pumping mud into the blown well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to perform a successful static kill, BP has now added a cement plug for good measure. This is an unmitigated success...
View ArticleThe Continuing Saga Of The NOAA’s Clumsy Spin
On August 4, the NOAA — which has not exactly covered itself in glory as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill debacle has unfolded — put out an unexpectedly upbeat report that was widely interpreted as...
View ArticleGet Your Plump And Juicy Gulf Of Mexico Shrimp Now!
This little sign of the times is from an email that the Harris Teeter grocery chain sent out to members of the Fresh Catch Club yesterday morning: This week’s Fresh Catch feature item is fresh wild...
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The Investigative Prowess of BP
BP just loves investigating sightings of oil in the Gulf of Mexico so much that they’ve decided to look at this one Pro bono: LONDON — A new oil sheen has been found in the Gulf of Mexico, although oil...
View ArticleBP, Criminality, Accountability
It’s about time that BP get’s held accountable for the human toll of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion: U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP Plc...
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