A natural gas rig off the coast of Venezuela collapsed and sank into the ocean today. And of course...
Category - Environment
Cofferdam Fail
Stick with the following video to the end. The "cofferdam" -- also known as the "top hat" -- is...
How Do We Turn the Tide on Oil Drilling?
ThinkProgress reports: This morning, executives including BP’s chairman Lamar McKay, Transocean CEO...
75 Days and 20 Million Gallons
This is the most grim assessment I've read so far. BP America said Monday that it would take...
Best and Worst Parts of the Climate Bill
We'll begin with the best part of the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill (the best of what I've read so...
Goddamn It To Hell
Dead dolphins. HORN ISLAND, Miss. — Federal wildlife officials are treating the deaths of six...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
If you're wondering why television news coverage of the oil spill is dwindling, you can thank the...
WTF?
Backwards crazy people: 28% of Republicans said the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico made...
A Small Bit of Good News
There's not much of anything positive to say about the Deepwater Horizon situation. But the public...
The Real Scale of the Oil Spill
Here's the BP oil spill superimposed over the New York City metro region. And it continues to grow...
Coal, Oil and Now… Nuclear
Radioactive water in New Jersey: LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Radioactive water that leaked from the...
The Dome Didn't Work
Bad news. Officials for BP on Saturday encountered a significant setback in their efforts to attach...
Why Does The AP Hate America?
The AP wrote an extensive review of the Obama administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon...
Oh Those Screwy Republicans
Sargent makes with the poll numbers on this ridiculous "Obama's Katrina" meme: Fox polls "Obama's...
Oil? Meet Louisiana.
From NOLA.com: Orange-colored oil from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has washed up on the western...
Yet Volcano Monitoring Is Hilarious
Bobby Jindal is begging for big government to hand over its big government cash to be -- what's the...
Coincidence? You Decide
Mary Landrieu on Morning Joe today: After the Challenger blew up, we didn't say, No more space race...
Your Depressing Gulf News of the Day
T. Boone Pickens was on Morning Joe this morning suggesting that the drilling of the relief well...
McDonnell is Utterly and Completely Tone Deaf
My home state is currently being run by tone deaf wingnuts and demagogues. McDonnell (R), who has...
Politico Is Really Awful
No, you're not going insane. This is in actual line from Politico: The ferocious oil leak in the...