Tag Archives: ecology

MADDOW: Gulf Oil Booms Are Failing

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Obama: Whose Ass Do I Kick?

The president told the Today Show today that he went down to the Gulf to try and figure out “whose ass to kick” about the oil spill.

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BP Launches Apology Campaign

This weekend British Petroleum launched the below ad campaign taking responsibility for the Gulf oil spill. The clip, which has already been parodied on late night television, does not accept comments on YouTube.

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Where Will The Oil End Up?

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Spill, Baby, Spill!

(Via – AmericaBlog)

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Photo Of The Day

Hit the Boston Globe’s series of photos of doomed sea birds along Louisiana’s oil-soaked coast, if you can bear it.

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Feds Claim Gulf Oil Spill Has Stopped

Federal officials are saying that it appears that the “top kill” attempt to plug the spewing oil will in the Gulf may have indeed worked. The flow of oil from the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico has stopped, the U.S. incident commander Admiral Thad Allen claimed Friday, but BP warned it would be a further 48 hours before …

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Maddow On “Top Kill” Oil Spill Attempt

It turns out that the amount of oil spilling is actually from 12,000 – 25,000 barrels per day, up to 25 times what BP first claimed. And yet BP is still low-balling people who’ve lost their livelihoods with ridiculously small settlements.

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OBAMA: I Take Responsibility For Not Moving Faster On Gulf Oil Spill

Vowing that BP will have to “pay dearly” for the Gulf oil spill, the president also acknowledged that the federal government did not move quickly enough at first. “We are relying on every resource and every idea, every expert and every bit of technology to work to stop it,” the president said. “We will take ideas from anywhere but we …

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Tweet Of The Day – BP Global PR

You’ve got to read the hilarious (fake) Twitter feed from BPGlobalPR. It’s gold, Jerry! Gold! (Via – AmericaBlog)

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Gulf Oil Well Appears To Be Capped

The Coast Guard is saying today that it appears yesterday’s “top kill” attempt to cap the spewing oil spill in the Gulf may have worked. Engineers have succeeded in stopping the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government’s top oil spill commander, Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning. The …

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Photo Of The Day – Louisiana’s Beach

More grim photos are here.

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Oil Spill Day 36: It’s A Nightmare

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Obama Administration: We’re Doing Everything We Can On Gulf Oil Spill

And yet millions of gallons are continuing to spew after more than a month. Meanwhile some are calling for the government to kick British Petroleum off the response team.

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BP Approves Use Of Kevin Costner’s Oil Separation Machine

As terrible at Kevin Costner’s Waterworld was, something great has actually come out of it. Costner has spent the last 15 years and $24M of his own money to develop a Waterworld-ish machine that removes oil from water. And it’s going to be put to use in the Gulf. “Kevin saw the Exxon Valdez spill, and as a fisherman and …

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Coast Guard Threatens To Arrest Journalists Filming Oil Spill

“These are BP’s rules, not ours.” Unreal. (Via – Towleroad)

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Oil Spill Reaches Key West, Feds Double Banned Fishing Area

Federal officials have doubled the area of the Gulf that is banned to fishing fleets as the oil spill appears to have reached Key West. Yesterday the Florida Park Service reported that about 20 “tar balls” of crude oil have washed ashore. The new restrictions extend from the coastal area off south-central Louisiana to about 200 miles off the tip …

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Jonathan Katz Cut From Oil Spill Team

Mere hours after the gay blogosphere reacted in disgust to the appointment of “proud homophobe” and physicist Jonathan I. Katz to the Obama administration’s oil spoil team, the Department of Energy has canned him. Chris Geidner at Metro Weekly reports: The news came after what the [DOE] spokesperson, Stephanie Mueller, termed ”controversial writings” – which included a ”defense of homophobia” …

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PhoboQuotable – Jonathan I. Katz

“What of those cursed with unnatural sexual desires? Must they forever suppress these desires? Yes, but this is hardly a unique fate. Almost everyone has desires which must be suppressed. Most men and women think adulterous thoughts fairly often, and find themselves attracted to members of the opposite sex to whom they are not married. Morality requires them to suppress …

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Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Florida Keys

Concerns are growing that the Gulf oil spill may reach the “loop current,” a fast-moving spiral that winds around the Florida Keys. Satellite images taken Saturday by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory show that the oil may have already entered the Gulf loop current, which could pull it through the Florida Keys and into South Florida, according to an analysis by …

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