Tag: Gulf Oil Spill - Page 10
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Greenwashing? Sandra Bullock Gets Duped by Big Oil's Restore the Gulf Campaign
Photo: Youtube Something's Not Right With This Campaign Not long ago, many celebrities got together to make a PSA for the "Be The One" campaign, urging people to sign a petition to save the Gulf of Mexico on the website RestoreTheGulf.com (very similar
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Dispatch From the Gulf Oil Spill: Breaking the Law to Save the Gulf
With the well capped and BP's promise of a "static kill" in the coming days, a sense of optimism, while tempered, seems to be
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Why the BP Spill Hasn't Invigorated Environmentalism
In 1969, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California released a few million gallons of oil into marine ecosystems -- eight months later, it was among the primary catalysts for the biggest pro-environmental movement in the
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BP CEO Tony Hayward's Parting Shot: "Life Isn't Fair"
It was a surprise to absolutely nobody when news surfaced this week that BP's gaffe-prone CEO Tony Hayward would be resigning in coming months (that he'd be snagging a handsome $17 million pension for a job not-so-well-done
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Improper Coast Guard Firefighting Responsible For Sinking Deepwater Horizon? Maybe, Report Says
A new report by The Center for Public Integrity reveals that, in the hours after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caught on fire, the US Coast Guard failed to follow its own internal firefighting procedures, potentially causing the
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"BP Spill Bill" Unveiled
Since comprehensive climate and energy reform has gone the way of the buffalo, it's time to look at the bills being rolled out in the Senate and House to tackle the BP spill. The Senate's measures are included in the limp 'energy
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Tropical Storm Bonnie Goes to Early Grave, Oil Cleanup Resumes
Image: NOAA, public domain. Until the Next Storm Tropical storm Bonnie, which we wrote about on Friday, forced the evacuation of cleanup crews and of people working on the relief well that will permanently plug the leaking oil well. But over the weekend
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Pro Athletes Visit Gulf Oil Spill, Say "No More Drill, Baby Drill"
I am back home from my second trip to Louisiana since the oil spill. This time I was joined by other professional athletes to take a tour of the massive environmental
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"(Tar) Balls in Your Mouth" - Jimmy Fallon's BP Spill Song
It's been a really crappy week -- what with the definitive death of climate legislation in the Senate and the ongoing fallout from the BP Gulf spill and all. So, suffice to say that I needed this: A hilarious video from Jimmy
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Tropical Storm Bonnie Nears Oil Spill, Could Delay Surface Operations by 2 Weeks
Image: NOAA, public domain. Update: Tropical Storm Bonnie Goes to Early Grave, Oil Cleanup Resumes Luckily It's Only a Tropical Storm, Not a Hurricane Ships around the site of the BP formely-leaking-but-now-capped oil well have been ordered to evacuate
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In Defense of the Offshore Drilling Moratorium
While the oil industry is banging the drum that an offshore drilling moratorium will
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BP's Real Crisis Command Center Revealed (Photo)
An amusing footnote to the BP Gulf spill surfaced yesterday, when a blogger noticed that the oil company had (badly) photoshopped pictures of its supposed crisis command center in Austin, Texas. See the bizarre photos, and the proof of the
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BP Relief Well 'days from completion', Oil Seepage Traced to Other Well
Photo: NASA, public domain. After Months of SNAFUs... Well, it's starting to look like the Gulf of Mexico's luck might finally be changing. Today brings a few more pieces of good news from BP about its gigantic oil spill mess. First, we learn that the
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BP Photoshopped Fake Crisis Command Center for Website (Pics)
Oh man, this keeps getting better and better -- can't BP do something without lying or deceiving the public about it? How about something as simple as posting actual photos of its command center in Houston on the company website? Evidently not. No, a
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BP Continues Integrity Test for Extra 24 Hours, Possible Leak Detected [Updated]
Photo: BP Was It Too Good to be True? Unfortunately, it is starting to look like BP's pressure test might not be quite as successful as it seemed in the first 48 hours. The testing has been extended for 24 hours one more time, and today's mission #1 is
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BP Buys Scientists' Silence For $250 Per Hour
Perhaps this sort of non-disclosure agreement is normal, but for BP and its growing reputation of trying to stop the free flow of information regarding the Gulf oil spill as much as
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How Much Oil is in the Water at Gulf Coast Beaches? (Video)
The BP Gulf spill (or whatever we decide to call it) has already done plenty of damage to wildlife, the local economy, and people's livelihoods. Images of oiled birds and turtles, crude-covered marshlands, and shuttered businesses are now sadly
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Should We Rename the BP Gulf Oil Spill?
It's a question that's been raised repeatedly over the course of the 3-month ordeal in the Gulf of Mexico -- what do we call it? Though most publications and journalists (this one included) have leaned towards variations on
