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WTF: Louisiana Governor Calls for More Offshore Drilling

Photo via Freedom Blogging Say what? As millions of gallons of oil spew out of the Gulf , and much of it threatening to make landfall on his state, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has called for … more offshore drilling. Citing “concerns for the economic impact” of discontinuing drilling, he wrote a letter to Obama asking the president to lift the newly imposed moratorium. Yes, you read that correctly: the man in charge of Louisiana, the state likely to be most devastated b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who Will Answer Our Clean Energy Wake Up Call?

Image credit: Leilani Münter/YouTube This post originally appeared on Huffington Post . After spending a week in Venice, Louisiana getting an up close view of the BP gulf coast oil spill disaster, talking with locals whose livelihoods are over, and seeing dead wildlife, I am trying my best to look at the positive side. Keep in mind that I just got off the phone with one of my boat captains in Louisiana and he told me he saw six dead dolphins and ten dead turtles in the past few days. So the idea of looking on “the brigh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quote of the Day: Robert Stern on When All Architecture is Green Architecture

Robert Stern is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, discussing sustainable design in Environment Yale. UTNE Reader picks up the story and illustrates it with….. a parking garage? “I don’t think sustainability is a design aesthetic, any more than having electricity in your building, or telephones, or anything else,” says Ster… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP’s CEO: "I’d Like My Life Back" (Video)

BP CEO Tony Hayward has been working really, really hard lately . And he’s tired of it. He wants his life back. He said so in an interview with Fox News, definitively explaining once and for all why everyone should trust BP to clean up the oil spill as best they can. Which is why fishermen and charter boat captains who’ve lost their livelihoods, volunteer cleanup workers from around the Gulf who are sick at the thought of their beaches getting coated with oil, and environmental groups of every stripe working to protect gravely threatened ecosystems should come together to stop… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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