The Republicans can't stop trying to bail out BP. On Tuesday morning, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okl.)...
Category - Environment
The Oil is Halfway to Limbaugh's House
The big oil spill news today (so far): KEY WEST, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard says 20 tar balls have...
The Dispersants Are Like Ice Cream! Yummy!
BP and others have been referring to the oil spill with quaint little words like "top hat" and...
Could They Have Plugged the Leak Sooner?
So BP has a "riser insertion tube" sucking up around 20 percent of the oil coming from the main...
Poisoning the Food Chain
The following paragraph jumped out at me in R.P. Seigel's piece in the Huffington Post about the...
Chemical Dispersant More Toxic Than Most
On the dispersant front, it looks like Corexit is one of the more toxic and least effective...
Doof Quote of the Day
"Where is the oil?" Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday
Good News, Bad News
First, the good news: NEW ORLEANS — Oil company engineers on Sunday finally succeeded in keeping...
Cleaning a Pelican
I wonder if any of those people were chanting for more oil drilling at the Republican convention.
Stupid Palin Thing of the Day
Palin in a recent speech via Jon Chait: "After inheriting a good pro-development GOP plan that...
SNL on the Oil Spill Clean-up Efforts
I personally like the Aqua-Man plan. By the way, I laughed throughout this sketch, of course. Then...
About the Dispersants
The chemical dispersant being dumped into the Gulf by the hundreds of thousands of gallons is...
Gigantic Plumes of Oil
When I read this, I literally said out loud: "Oh. My. God." Scientists are finding enormous oil...
Super Stupid
This is just wrong. Gov. Haley Barbour said that the Mississippi Gulf Coast is open for business...
More Excellent Ideas in the Gulf
So they've decided to put a rubber bathtub stopper into the pipe. Really. BP PLC technicians were...
Exciting Oil Dispersant Blog Entry
It's not as sexy as oil-soaked turtles washing ashore, but the millions of gallons of chemical...
Haley Barbour is a Big Doofus
This is the dumbest thing I've read all day. Haley Barbour thinks the oil is nothing but a sheen...
Tough Times Demand Tough Talk
President Obama spoke this afternoon in forceful terms about the oil spill: "I did not appreciate...
Alaska's Senator Murkowski Bails Out BP
Make no mistake, the Republicans just bailed out BP: A bill to increase the liability cap for oil...
This Is Just Shockingly Awful
Every day, the news about the oil spill becomes increasingly soul crushing. And this news from Dan...