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Federal Report Released On BP Oil Spill

AP | HARRY R. WEBER and DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Bp, Bp Oil Spill Cleanup, U.S. Coast Guard, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, BP Oil Spill 2010, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Green News

BP bears ultimate responsibility for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a key government panel said Wednesday in a report that assigns more...

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U.S. Approves First Deepwater Drilling Permit In Gulf Since BP Spill

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Deepwater Drilling Moratorium, Tony Hayward, Helix Well Containment Group, Exxon Mobil, Michael Bromwich, British Petroleum, Gulf Oil Spill, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Offshore Drilling, Offshore Oil Drilling, Noble Energy, Tony Hayward BP, Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Deepwater Drilling, Doc Hastings, Deepwater Horizon, Ken Salazar, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, David Vitter, Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Green News

NEW YORK — The U.S. has approved the first deepwater drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since BP's massive oil spill. The Bureau of Ocean Ener...

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Report: Obama Should Increase Offshore Drilling Inspectors And Stiffen Penalties

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, Ken Salazar, Mary Kendall, Minerals Management Service, Michael Bromwich, Energy, Offshore Drilling Inspectors, Offshore Drilling Regulation, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration should sharply increase the number of offshore drilling inspectors, conduct more surprise inspections and ...

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Obama and Oil Drilling: How Can You Be Sure?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Michael Leahy, Gulf of Mexico, Policy, Richard Feynman, Legislation, Barack Obama, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Politics, Nasa, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Minerals Management Service, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Challenger Space Shuttle, Deepwater Horizon, Oil, Washington Post, Hurricane Katrina, Juliet Eilperin, Offshore Energy, Climate Bill, Ken Salazar, Columbia Space Shuttle, Green News
Bill Chameides

Is the benefit of the extra oil we will get from deepwater drilling (half a year's worth of additional crude) worth the environmental risks of another major accident? The Obama administration has obviously decided yes.

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BP and the Food Truck Guy

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prudhoe Bay, Yaair Raouli, Bp, Mayor Bloomberg, Bistro Food Truck, Minerals Management Service, Speaker Chrintine Quinn, Councilwoman Jessica Lappin, Deepwater Horizon, Department of Consumer Affairs, Fedex, Citizens United, Ups, Department of Health, New York News
Mark Green

Should government destroy New York's Bistro Food truck guy because of three parking tickets, but not revoke the charter of BP for being a corporate recidivist?

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Bloomberg News Refuses to Correct Blatantly False Drilling Ban Story

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Disaster, Bp, Politics, Media, Congress, British Petroleum, Green, Oil, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, Deepwater Moratorium, Media Bias, Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, Bloomberg, Dept of Interior, Offshore Drilling Polling, Media Criticism, Energy, Media News
Josh Nelson

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the answer is no. On Thursday I documented a blatantly false Bloomberg news story designed to mislead readers ab...

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Environmentalists Sue Regulator To Revoke Permits Of Poorly-Reviewed Oil Rigs

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — Environmentalists seeking to curb oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday filed federal lawsuits to shut down a major BP plat...

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Gulf Rig Blast: Lack Of Regulation Led To Disaster

AP | ALLEN G. BREED and CURT ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Spill Regulation, Gulf Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, Green News

A "black box" can reveal why an airplane crashed or how fast a car was going in the instant before an accident. Yet there are no records of a critical...

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Bush MMS Director: 'When I Was There It Seemed To Work Well'

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johnnie Burton, the director of Bush's Minerals Management Service (MMS) from 2002 to 2007, has no regrets about her tenure, saying in an interview th...

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SEC and MMS: A Tale of Two Failures

Eliot Spitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sec, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, Financial Regulation, Business News
Eliot Spitzer

We have endured two cataclysms in which a regulatory agency failed to meet even the minimum requirements for doing its job. Where will the next disaster occur? At the FDA? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission?

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Green News Report -- May 6, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Factory Farms, Obama Administration, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Michael Brown, Solar Energy, Oil Spill, John Kerry, Coal Ash, Hurricane Katrina, Cancer, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Bp, Nashville, Fema, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Lindsey Graham, Toxic Chemicals, Minerals Management Service, Nashville Flooding, BRAD BLOG, Environment, Green News, Oil, Harry Reid, Fox News, Climate Legislation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BP Oil Spill, Votevets, Clean Energy Legislation, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The latest on...

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Sex, Lies and Oil Spills

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Oil Industry, Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, George W. Bush, Katrina, Jr., Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy, Green News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A common spin in the right wing coverage of BP's oil spill is that the gulf blowout is Obama's Katrina. In truth, culpability for this disaster can be laid at the Bush administration's doorstep.

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Conservative & Corporate Failure in the Deepwater Disaster

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regulation, British Petroleum, Conservatism, Mary Landrieu, Gulf Oil Spill, Offshore Drilling, Government, Louisiana, Conservatives, Minerals Management Service, Deepwater, Big Oil, Sarah Palin, Deregulation, Oil, Deepwater Horizon, Sec, Hurricane Katrina, Securities and Exchange Commission, Gulf of Mexico, Mms, Politics News
Terrance Heath

The only things more astounding than conservatives' record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disast...

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Lucia Graves

BP Halts Watchdog Lawsuit On Legal Technicality

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food & Water Watch, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, Atlantis, BP Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Oil Spill Lawsuit, Oil, Green News, BP Lawsuit, Green News

A lawsuit filed by watchdog group Food & Water Watch against the U.S. Minerals Management Service alleging that BP's Atlantis oil rig is unsafe has be...

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Protecting Our Government From Corporate Influence

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Regulatory Capture, Sheldon Whitehouse, Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, Corporations, Sherrod Brown, Senator Sherrod Brown, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Financial Regulation, Mms, Politics News
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse

We should allow our top national law officer, the Attorney General of the United States, to step in and clean house whenever an agency or element of government is no longer credibly independent of the industry it is intended to regulate.

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Ex-Oilman Trace Adkins on Obama: 'He's Hamstrung'

Lauren Ashburn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, BP Oil Spill, Trace Adkins, Gulf Oil Spill, Mms, Lauren Ashburn, Politics News
Lauren Ashburn

As a former oil rig roughneck, country star Trace Adkins is unhappy with BP's "company man" mentality and the media's portrayal of his former profession, and insists the president, despite his rhetoric, is powerless.

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Michael Bromwich Named To Head Minerals Management Service

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has selected a former federal prosecutor to take over the troubled government agency that oversees oil and g...

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With Obama's Mixed Messages and Republicans' "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Mindset, Where's Our "Crying Indian"?

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Minerals Management Service, Sarah Palin, James Cameron, BP Oil Spill, Barack Obama, Mms, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News
Brian Keane

We can and should expect more from President Obama. If he's serious about reversing climate change, he needs to do more than offer platitudes. He needs to take real leadership.

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How Will the Oil Spill, Politically? Who Is in Charge?

Bill Donius | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minerals Management Service, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, British Petroleum, Gulf Oil Spill, Democrats, Barack Obama, Republicans, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Bill Donius

Can those favoring small government now legitimately claim we need bigger government in order to fix this problem? You can't have it both ways unless you expect the American public to have amnesia. We're not fooled this easily.

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BP Is Still Pointing Fingers -- Time for Us to Act

Sophie B. Hawkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minerals Management Service, BP Oil Rig, Renewable Energy, BP Oil Spill 2010, Oil, Waterkeeper Alliance, Our Oceans, Deepwater Horizon, Oceans, BP Oil Spill, Ken Salazar, Green Energy, Gulf Oil Spill, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Sophie B. Hawkins

It was just before Earth Day 2010 when the when the BP disaster, a veritable "Chernobyl of the Ocean" and possibly the worst oil spill in human history, erupted.

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Will Gusher Trauma Lead Us to National Energy Goals?

Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Wind Power, Xcel Energy, Gulf Oil Spill, Bill Ritter, Minerals Management Service, Byron Dorgan, Denver News
Anne Butterfield

We need to adopt a pioneering spirit that sees our vast landscapes at home as something to be mapped with new purpose. And that means committing to large scale renewable power.

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What Will We Learn From Deepwater Horizon?

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Spills, Department of the Interior, Bp, Minerals Management Service, Alternative Energy, Environment, Deepwater Horizon, Environmentalism, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

The evidence is mounting that the BP Deepwater Horizon spill may have been the result of negligence and corner-cutting both by BP and government agencies.

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GOP Spews Hypocrisies as BP Rig Gushes Gallons Into Gulf

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Bp, John Boehner, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Wall Street Reform, British Petroleum, Media, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Barack Obama, Wall Street Crisis, Oil Spill, Harry S. Truman, Wall Street, Minerals Management Service, Fox News, Republicans, Media News, President Bush, Wall Street Regulation, Bobby Jindal, Gulf Oil Spill, Politics News
Brian Ross

The GOP will be hitting Fox News again this week with an ironic demand that the government, which they say in all other circumstances cannot do anythi...

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The Consensus on Big Banks Shifts, But Not at Treasury

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banks, Wall Street, Minerals Management Service, Tim Geithner, David Brooks, Financial Fix, Financial Reform, Business News
Simon Johnson

Top Obama administration officials refuse to change their opinions in the slightest; they have dug in behind the idea that they represent the moderate center on banking policy. This is a weak position.

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Gulf Oil Spill: Ken Salazar Faces Calls For His Resignation

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Birnbaum, Minerals Management Service, Gulf Oil Spill Response, Ken Salazar, Gulf Oil Spill, Interior Department, Mms, Green News

Is Ken Salazar the next head to roll, as a result of the gulf oil disaster? Last week, Elizabeth Birnbaum quit under pressure as head of the Interior ...

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