Take a Look at How Deep the BP Spill’s Impact Goes With NRDC’s Interactive...
As we all know, there’s more to the BP spill than meets the eye. The extent of the damage wasn’t just the thousands of birds that got oiled — it goes much deeper. Continued here:Â Take a Look at How...
View ArticleGOP Launches Push to Expand Offshore Drilling
Photo: US Coast Guard Remember that epic disaster that killed 11 people, soiled miles of coastline around the Gulf of Mexico, wiped out thousands of jobs, damaged the ecosystem there in ways that...
View ArticleForests Soak Up Tons Of Fossil Fuel Emissions, But Deforestation Releases...
photo: Damien HR / Creative Commons Another study showing us how valuable forests are (among their myriad other values) for soaking up carbon emissions: According to the new research in Science the...
View ArticleBP Pipeline Spills Oil Onto Alaskan Tundra
Photo credit: Ryan McFarland via Zieak /CC BY BP can’t seem to get enough of letting oil loose. It must be quite a rush — dumping toxic liquids on pristine environments, all the explosions, breaking...
View ArticleBP Under Investigation for Lying About Gulf Spill Size (Video)
The US Department of Justice is currently investigating the oil giant BP for charges that it repeatedly and deliberately sought to mislead both the public and the government about the size of the...
View ArticleNew Emails Show BP Was Aware of Possibility of Oil Spill in Gulf But Kept it...
On Friday, as part of a federal investigation, BP released a series of internal e-mails sent directly after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and started to leak oil into the Gulf of Mexico that...
View ArticleNew Emails Show BP Was Aware of Possibility of Oil Spill in Gulf But Kept it...
On Friday, as part of a federal investigation, BP released a series of internal e-mails sent directly after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and started to leak oil into the Gulf of Mexico that...
View ArticleBP Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill Trial Delayed One Week
The trial that will decide BP’s culpability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was set to begin in the US District Court in New Orleans today, but has been postponed to allow the oil company to...
View ArticleDrilling in the Gulf of Mexico on the Rise as Oil Prices Continue to Climb
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago — which was the worst oil spill in the country’s history — President Barack Obama placed a moratorium on all new offshore...
View ArticleTransocean Pleads Guilty to Gulf Oil Spill and Agrees to Pay $1.4 Billion in...
The US Department of Justice announced today that Swiss company Transocean Ltd, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank in 2010, has agreed to pay $1.4 billion for the oil spill...
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