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Containment Failed: America’s Worst Oil Spill to Worsen
BP reluctantly announced that its short-term containment attempt failed on Sunday. The 100-ton metal dome that was supposed to control the gushing oil by funneling it up to a ship above was foiled by...
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Could Be [Even] Worse: 2 Real Oil Spill Scenarios
The failure of BP’s containment dome Sunday offers some dark certainty to an ongoing catastrophe rife with questions: at least now we now know that oil will continue to gush into the Gulf of Mexico for...
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Oil Execs Testify Before Congress…Technically
In case you didn’t have the pleasure of watching executives from BP, Halliburton and Transocean testify before Congress Tuesday afternoon, I have compiled some highlights and thoughts below. The...
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All Aboard! Oil Reaches the Loop Current
Recent satellite imagery shows that the oil slick appears to have reached the Loop Current, the warm water flow that is now taking oil through and around the Florida Keys and on up the East Coast....
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A Crisis We Cannot Afford to Waste
Regardless of BP’s lies, this spill is already well over double the size of Exxon Valdez. The surface slick is entrained in the Loop Current headed through Florida to the East Coast, and vast...
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Natural Oil Seeps vs. Oil Spills
Back when this all first started, after explaining that Deepwater Horizon had been sabotaged by militant environmentalists, everyone’s favorite conservative radio host had the following to say about...
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Why the Drilling Moratorium Makes Sense
-Fact: We do not yet know what caused the blowout that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig. -Fact: We do not have adequate prevention or containment methods for a deepwater blowout, so a massive oil spill...
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Deepwater Drilling Moratorium Version 2.0
Last month, as most of you know, the Obama administration’s first deepwater drilling moratorium in response to the ongoing BP oil spill was overturned in a logically unsound and ostensibly political...
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Is the Underwater Oil Gone?
Conflicting reports claim that the giant underwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico is both still there and gone. Yet a closer look at the recent research reveals a potential explanation for this...
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BP’s Oil Spill Fines Might Not Help the Gulf
In addition to BP’s compensatory fund, the company must pay a per-barrel fine for its gratuitously spilled oil. Under current law, that money is paid into the federal treasury instead of funding...
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