Chris Britt editorial cartoon on BP "cleaning up" the Gulf oil spill.
The message to the federal government from Wednesday's Rally For Economic Survival was clear: End the arbitrary deepwater drilling moratorium and let the Gulf Coast get back to work.
NestWatch project allows citizens to help scientists gather important data.
Dave Granlund cartoon on the BP cleanup crew in the Gulf.
What, if any moral or spiritual lessons does the Gulf oil spill hold?
With its large bay area, beaches and salt marshes, Massachusetts is a primary nesting ground for many endangered coastal water birds, particularly the piping plover. However, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico puts these birds at great risk.
It is impossible for some people to separate the name British Petroleum from the oil leak disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But when a man began protesting in front of a British Petroleum service station in Massachusetts last week, the station's owner launched his own campaign.
Dawn LeJeune operates a restaurant that specializes in seafood in Plaquemine. The “Seafood Connection” owner says she is weathering the recent Gulf Coast crisis but is beginning to notice an increase in prices and bulk of product coming from saltwater fisheries wholesalers.
With its large bay area, beaches and salt marshes, Massachusetts is a primary nesting ground for many endangered coastal water birds, particularly the piping plover. However, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico puts these birds at great risk.
Dear Diary: Well, it's been a pretty heady time for me. A few days ago, I blocked that presidential six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling. That's right, I overruled the president of the United States. How cool is that? I got your "separation of powers" right here, Obama.
It is impossible for some people to separate the name British Petroleum from the oil leak disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But when a man began protesting in front of a British Petroleum service station in Massachusetts last week, the station's owner launched his own campaign.
Dawn LeJeune operates a restaurant that specializes in seafood in Plaquemine. The “Seafood Connection” owner says she is weathering the recent Gulf Coast crisis but is beginning to notice an increase in prices and bulk of product coming from saltwater fisheries wholesalers.
The Better Business Bureau has released a list of charities helping in the cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico that meet the bureau's Wise Giving Alliance's standards for charity accountability.
If anyone has been standing around over the past two months waiting for a bit of good news to come out of the BP Gulf oil spill, they may have received it Thursday when the White House announced that BP will establish a $20 million escrow fund to pay for claims and cleanup costs.
Here we go again. Another big corporation has inflicted incalculable damage on the economy, on thousands of families and on the environment. And whose fault is it? The government's.
BP CEO Tony Hayward didn't want to be a total jerk, so he went to A YACHT RACE, because it was the wanker-est thing he could think of that didn't involve tucking his polo into his khaki shorts, which I cannot imagine also didn't happen.
Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research will be expanding its operation in Fort Jackson, La., in order to accommodate the numbers of birds it expects to receive in the future as the oil spill in the Gulf continues to grow, said Rebecca Dunne, facility manager for the organization that's been contracted by BP to help with oil spill clean up.
The damage that resulted from the British Petroleum oil spill is beyond tally in many terms — lives lost, family earnings ruined and destruction of nature’s gifts that will take a century to correct. But there’s one damage no one has spoken of.
"The Daily Show" news staff outdid itself Wednesday. While often specializing in skewering the news and the TV personalities who deliver it, Jon Stewart’s team showed what national news ought to be presenting. On the day after President Barack Obama’s prime-time address pitching a renewed emphasis on developing alternative fuel sources to wean our country off its oil dependence, "The Daily Show" presented a well-researched documentary of sorts in a segment titled “America is an unstoppable oil-dependency breaking machine – unfortunately, the machine runs on oil.”
