Oil Disaster

Experts Fear Another Oil Disaster

AP | By HARRY R. WEBER and HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 06.14.2011

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NEW ORLEANS -- With everything Big Oil and the government have learned in the year since the Gulf of Mexico disaster, could it happen again? Absolutel...

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Another fossil fuel tragedy. Another reason to get to work.

Erich Pica | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week's deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, described by the local fire captain as like "a 747 had landed on us," sends yet anothe...

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Big Oil's Relentless Assault on Democracy

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Money has this amazing power to tear down doors and wipe out consciences. And Big Oil has so much money, it's no longer called money, it's called power.

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Turtle Rescue Efforts Are Guided By Hope And Guesswork, Not Data (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Federal wildlife officials embarking on a mass relocation of sea turtle hatchlings from the Northern Gulf Coast are hoping the endangered animals have...

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Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Beg For A Chance To Take Basic Measurements

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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A group of independent scientists, frustrated and dumbfounded by the continued lack of the most basic data about the 77-day-old BP oil disaster, has p...

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Oil Spills: A History Of Disaster (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent disaster that occurred at a BP offshore drilling site near Louisiana--seriously injuring 17 workers, leaving 11 still missing, and leaking ...

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NOAA's Dual Mission Puts Some Data On A Slower Track

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three weeks after BP's oil well blew up and started poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, the private research vessel Jack Fitz, carrying a team of well-equip...

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BP Using Google To Manipulate Public Opinion

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now there's another reason to hate the company that America hates most, BP is using paid search to influence public opinion as people look for information about the oil spill and its consequences.

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BP's Top Two Officials On Rig Are No-Shows At Crucial Hearing

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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This story has been updated Some of the most-anticipated witnesses at key oil spill hearings -- including BP's top official on the Deepwater Horizon ...

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Gulf Disaster Shows Drilling Is Too Dangerous

Jamie Rappaport Clark | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the catastrophe in the Gulf does not wake us up to the need to wean ourselves off oil and move towards clean, safe, renewable energy, I don't know what will.

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Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Executives from the three companies most implicated in the disastrous oil-rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico will point fingers at each other Tuesday...

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