Image via the US Coast Guard According to a Rasmussen poll , not all Americans are angry with BP, despite the fact that the company has put thousands of people out of work, and the still-uncontrolled spill in the Gulf . In fact, a full 22% evidently still view the oil giant favorably. Which to me, is a pretty surprising number. It’s not that I expected everyone to immediately… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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1/5th of Americans Still View BP Favorably
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photo: Andy Zeigert via flickr You’ve probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast the leak out of existence. Thankfully, according to a New York Times report, the US government has no plans to act on what one senior official described as a “crazy” plan:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher
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The Daily Show was unfortunately on hiatus during the last couple weeks of the BP Gulf oil spill, leaving a void where negligent companies should be lampooned and scathing satire delivered. But fear not, everyone! The spill is still continuing unabated , more than 40 days after it began, and there looks to be no end in sight — which means plenty more time for BP Gulf spill satire! Hell, we could be laughing until Christmas, according to some reports, since that’s how long experts say it might ta… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Jon Stewart Blasts BP for Having 760 Pre-Spill Safety Violations (Video)
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photo: banspy via flickr I can here the collective cry of ‘Right on!’ and ‘About effing time!’ rising up from the TreeHugger readership… CNN is reporting that US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the Gulf Gusher. We’ll have more as it emerges, but this is what we know so far:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BREAKING: US Justice Department Launches Criminal Investigation of BP Oil Spill
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Photo via the Times Online Public policy expert and Salon writer Robert Reich thinks he should . In a persuasive piece that’s the sort of idea du jour in the green blogosphere, he argues that the Obama administration needs to put BP into a temporary receivership, allowing the federal government to have direct authority over the flailing company. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Should Obama Temporarily Take Over BP?
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photo via flickr If it’s bad and it’s related to oil, you know Dick Cheney must be involved in some way. This was true from 2000-2008 and it’s just as true today. Cheney’s press secretary during his 2004, Anne Womack-Kolton, has been hired by BP to lead its US media team. Womack-Kolton ran the public affairs team in the Bush Department of Energy and defended Cheney’s secret meetings with oil company executives in 2001. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP’s New Spokesperson Is Former Dick Cheney Aid
Another good video coming out of OnEarth : In this quickie, the Philippe’s tell the story of how their family has live on Louisiana’s Grand Bayou for “centuries upon centuries.” As part of the Atakapa-Ishak tribe, they have relied on this land and water for generations and it’s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Y’all Ain’t Gonna Be Able To Eat Shrimp Like You Used To & We Ain’t Gonna Be Able to Catch It’ (Video)
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Image by Stephen Messenger Evidently, being responsible for the biggest environmental disaster in US history doesn’t come cheap. Over the last 6 weeks, BP has lost a staggering $67 billion — one third the value of the entire company’s market share. The spill has also cost the company an additional $1 billion in cleanup costs so far. In fact, BP’s financial outlook is so dire that some analysts say the company could fall victim to a hostile takeover…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Stock Plunges: Company Loses $67 Billion in 6 Weeks
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photo: Stig Nygaard via flickr Some small measure of sanity… BBC News , CNN , and others are reporting that President Obama will extend a ban on new deepwater offshore oil drilling for six months, while the causes of the BP oil spill are investigated. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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image: Toby Oxborrow (no photo graphic) & US Coast Guard (controlled burn of oil spill) Stories about BP contractors working hand in glove with the Coast Guard and local police to prevent full coverage of the effects of the oil spill have been coming out for some time now–and don’t seem to be going away. Newsweek reports that everyone from traditiona… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Now Owns the Airspace Above the Spill, Too – Bars Journalists From Flying Over It
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