We as a nation need to think, act, and live smarter. If we don't, all that we have worked hard for over the past 236 years could be lost forever.
Carl Safina | Posted 03.18.2012
When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, it unleashed a regional catastrophe whose effects continue to play out these two decades later. One such apparent effect was the subsequent collapse of the region's herring.
Anya Landau French | Posted 11.20.2011
Less than three months before deep-water drilling begins in Cuban waters, neither Congress nor the administration have taken the necessary steps to help prevent or respond to another disaster.
Antonia Juhasz | Posted 05.25.2011
The good news is that the cap is holding. The bad news is that, with the well no longer gushing, the oil is out of sight and out of mind and BP is pulling up boom and pulling back workers and the rest of the clean-up apparatus all across the Gulf.
Nan Aron | Posted 05.25.2011
There are many oil-drenched casualties of the tragedy in the Gulf. It would be a shame if the integrity of the judicial system was one, as well.
CAIN BURDEAU and HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011
VENICE, La. (AP) -- An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore alo...
Ernest Istook | Posted 05.25.2011
Pressure from Senator George LeMieux has paid off with an emergency federal rule to permit more oil cleanup vessels to leave their posts elsewhere along America's coastline and finally head to the Gulf of Mexico to provide help.
AP | CAIN BURDEAU and HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011
VENICE, La. — An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore alo...
John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011
British Petroleum didn't just fall out of the sky one day and decide to start polluting the Gulf of Mexico. Oh no, they've been at this a while and their exploits are not confined to destroying important ocean ecosystems with risky, unsafe technology.
AP | KEVIN McGILL | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard by sea and air planned to search overnight for 11 workers missing since a thunderous explosion rocked an oil drill...
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican fealty to the oil barons goes back decades, but it took Congressman Joe Barton to say out loud the secret that everyone else in the GOP fraternity knows very well -- that the Republicans are a party of, by and for Big Oil.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011
The sound that American wind turbines produce as their giant, breeze-propelled blades whip around is a distinctive: Neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh. The anti...
Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011
When ignited, the boom transformed the oil into a roaring mass of flames as high as 150 feet and a column of smoke of biblical proportions.
Huffington Post | Gideon Pine | Posted 05.25.2011
BP announced last week that it will be allocating the profits earned by selling recovered oil in the Gulf region to an unnamed wildlife fund. The oil ...
Shan Wells | Posted 05.25.2011
That's right, actually getting a solid estimate of the amount of poison that is currently geysering into the waters of the Gulf is not desirable, or even really that important.
Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 05.25.2011
Nearly five years on from Katrina, Mike Brown is still doing a "heck of a job." Just ask him.
Matthew Maron | Posted 04.17.2012