Oil Rig Disaster

This Labor Day, Think of Those Who Keep Your Lights On

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Rig Disaster, Oil Rig, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Gulf Oil Spill, Labor Day, President Obama, Green News
Brian Keane

I have a lot to be thankful for this Labor Day: a job that I'm passionate about, a family that's happy and healthy, and a president who cares deeply a...

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Jason Linkins

Miami Herald Plays Fast And Loose With Oil Rig Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Louisiana Oil Rig Explosion, Vermilion Bay Oil Rig Explosion, Oil Rig Explosion Gulf of Mexico, Oil Rig Spill, Oil Rig, Green News, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Rig Disaster, Vermillion Bay, Oil Rig Explosion 2010, Miami Herald, Media News

Earlier today, another oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 100 miles south of Vermilion Bay in Louisiana. If you've been following ...

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Oil Rig Explodes In The Gulf Of Mexico Off The Louisiana Coast

AP | ALAN SAYRE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Rig Spill, Oil Rig Explosion Gulf of Mexico, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, Louisiana Oil Rig Explosion, Oil Rig Explosion 2010, Vermillion Bay, Vermilion Bay Oil Rig Explosion, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than ...

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Marcus Baram

Gulf Oil Spill: Government Regulator Downplayed Environmental Impact Of Spill

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Environmental Impact, MMS Oil Rig, Bp, Oil Spill, Oil Rig Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Drilling Impact, Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico, Green News

This story has been updated In the wake of the growing environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is being blamed for discounting the potent...

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Oil Rig Victims' Families Struggle With Loss

Washington Post | Lonnae O'Neal Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Rig Victims, Oil, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, Oil Rig Families, Deepwater Horizon, BP Oil Rig, Oil Rig Explosion, Green News

EUNICE, LA. -- Keith Jones lingered outside the imposing doors of St. Anthony's Catholic Church debating whether to step into the memorial service ins...

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Marcus Baram

Gulf Oil Rig Disaster And Mine Explosion Highlight Weak Safety Regulations

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Msha, Oil Rig Disaster, Gulf Oil Spill, Mms, Osha, Safety Regulations, Mine Disaster, Politics News

"I have here before me a pile of news clips collected over the last couple of weeks describing workers, men and women, young and old who have been cru...

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Dan Froomkin

Gulf Oil Spill: A Symbol Of What Fossil Fuels Do To The Earth Every Day, Say Environmentalists

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Drilling, Environmentalists, Oil Spill Environment, Oil Rig Disaster, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Pollution, Oil Spill, Green News

The leading edge of a vast oil slick started to come ashore in Louisiana on Thursday night, a shroud of devastation falling on America's coastline eve...

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Marcus Baram

Big Oil Fought Off Rules Requiring Equipment To Prevent Blowouts

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Oil, Big Oil Safety Regulations, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, Blowout Preventer, BP Safety Regulations, Deepwater Horizon, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

For over a decade, the oil industry has aggressively fought safety regulations intended to prevent accidents and blowouts on offshore oil drilling rig...

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Dan Froomkin

NOAA Warned Interior It Was Underestimating Threat Of Serious Spill

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Rig Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Spill, NOAA Oil Spill, NOAA Oil Rig Disaster, Politics News

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration officials last fall warned the Department of Interior, which regulates offshore oil drilling, that it wa...

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Marcus Baram

Mary Landrieu Minimized Potential For Spill And Impact Of Damage (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Landrieu Offshore Drilling, Oil Rig Accident, Oil Spill, Mary Landrieu, Oil Rig Disaster, Oil Rig Explosion, Gulf Oil Spill, Offshore Drilling, Politics News

Scroll down for video Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, in which 11 workers were thrown overboard and are presumed dead, federal officia...

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Marcus Baram

Oil Spill Gulf Of Mexico 2010: Congress Demands Answers From BP, TransOcean As Feds Launch Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transocean, Menendez Oil Drilling, Bp, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Safety Regulations, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, Oil Rig Explosion, Congress Oil Drilling, Deepwater, Video, Green News

As the massive oil spill caused by the worst rig explosion in decades continues to spread across the Gulf of Mexico, more questions are being raised a...

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Marcus Baram

Big Oil Fought Off New Safety Rules Before Rig Explosion

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transocean, Oil Drilling Safety, Bp, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, TransOcean Accident, Oil Drilling Disaster, Mms, Oil Accident, BP Accident, Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 2010, Oil Spill, Green News

Scroll down to see the proposed safety regulations and BP's objection As families mourn the 11 workers thrown overboard in the worst oil rig disaster...

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Ocean Our Ocean in Revery and Neglect

Fabien Cousteau | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fabien Cousteau

We must roll up our sleeves and mop up the mess.

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Gulf Oil Spill: Relief Wells Are Risky, Could Actually Make Spill Worse

Huffington Post | Gideon Pine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Oil Spill, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

In the wake of every failed attempt to stem the gush of oil spewing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the one option that is almost unanimously r...

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One Giant Oil Rig

Marie Wilson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Oil Rig Disaster, Oil Rig, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Healthy Living News
Marie Wilson

Manly man behavior in men and acquiescence to these behaviors by women will have to be abandoned. If we don't pay attention to this, we may be one big unplugged event from our demise.

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Dan Froomkin

BP's Response Plan Was A Joke, Group Charges

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Oil Spill Response, Oil Spill, Oil Rig Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

BP's official response plan for oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico doesn't actually say anything about how the company would stop a blowout, wildly unde...

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Dan Froomkin

Gulf Oil Spill: Markey Demands BP Broadcast Live Video Feed From The Source

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Markey, Markey BP, Oil Rig Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, BP Oil Spill, Live Video Oil Spill, Oil Spill Video, Green News

UPDATE: BP has relented and will release a live video feed of the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from Rep. Edwar...

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Dan Froomkin

Gulf Oil Spill: Government Remains Blind To Underwater Oil Hazard

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Rig Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Salazar NOAA, NOAA MMS, Noaa, Gulf Oil Spill, MMS Oil Spill, Green News

SEE UPDATE BELOW The Obama administration is actively trying to dismiss media reports that vast plumes of oil lurk beneath the surface of the Gulf of...

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Marcus Baram

Gulf Oil Rig Victims: A Memorial To The 11 Men Who Lost Their Lives (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Rig, Oil Rig Victims, Deepwater Horizon Victims, Deepwater, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Rig Memorial, Gulf Oil Spill, Slidepollajax, Deepwater Horizon Memorial, Green News

With research assistance by Travis Donovan Lost in the media maelstrom surrounding the Gulf oil rig disaster -- from breathless coverage of congressi...

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Dan Froomkin

Where's The Oil? Your Government Doesn't Really Know

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

For more than three weeks now, crude oil has been erupting out of a pipe a mile underneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. A new analysis of seaflo...

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BP Refinery Cited For Serious Safety Violations

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Cherry Point, Bp, BP Refinery Violations, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, BP Refinery, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Bp Safety Violations, Video, Green News

Already in the cross-hairs of federal and congressional investigators -- as well as dozens of plaintiff's attorneys -- for its role in the Gulf oil ri...

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Marcus Baram

Whistleblower Claims That BP Was Aware Of Cheating On Blowout Preventer Tests

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Mason, Blowout Preventer Test, Oil Rig, Oil Rig Disaster, Blowout Preventer, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, BP Oil Rig, Charles Hamel, Green News

This story has been updated As the federal and congressional probes continue into the causes of the Gulf oil rig explosion, new information is coming...

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