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Regulatory Agencies' Attempts to Sweep Oil Under the Rug Raise Questions
Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch: "'A recent report by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center (a collaboration between the federal government and BP) claiming that only 25 percent... ...
BP, Obama and the Economics of Disaster
Max Ajl, Truthout: "The unceasing dribble of bad news from the Gulf of Mexico has been running before our eyes for weeks now: dead plankton; hypoxic zones looming and worsening, the product of massive... ...
BP's Methane Monster: From the Gulf to the Globe
Craig Collins, Truthout: "We hear a lot of talk about carbon dioxide as the most dangerous climate culprit. And we should. So far, loading the atmosphere with CO2 is the single biggest cause of climate... ...
Oil Well Blowout May Never End
By Washington's Blog The likelihood of a complete collapse is difficult to assess, in part, engineers and legislators say, because BP hasn't shared enough information to evaluate the situation. But a... ...
BP Oil Slick Now Threatens 60 Percent of America's Tidal Marshes
New data has been released showing that the massive BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is already contaminating one major protected North American Marine Ecoregion, containing more than 60-percent of America's... ...
Gulf Oil Full of Methane, Adding New Concerns
By MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that... ...
Feds Knew of Gulf Spill Risks in 2000, Document Shows
Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers: "A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive... ...