"What is it, Yogi?" "Hey hey hey - it's an oil company on its way to drill off the Alaskan coast." "And they call me Boo-Boo." WASHINGTON - The O...
AP | MATTHEW DALY and BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Pointing to the BP blowout and risks of a new environmental disaster, the Obama administration reversed itself Wednesday and promis...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The oil spill that damaged the Gulf of Mexico's reefs and wetlands is also threatening to stain the Obama administration's reputati...
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is back in the deep water oil-drilling business. The question now is when work will resume. The Obama administration, und...
AP | CHRIS KAHN, DINA CAPPIELLO and HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — Now that the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has effectively been stopped, the White House is considering an early end to...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the federal government's effort to restore an offshore deepwater drilling morato...
The Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's recent announcement to open up areas that have been off limits to offshore drilling came as a shock to many. Then the tragic accide...
Posted 05.25.2011
As we've previously reported on HuffPost Impact, a global activist campaign called "Hands Across The Sand" hopes to encourage people around the world ...
Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011
Arianna and her "Both Sides Now" co-host Mary Matalin stopped by the Joy Behar Show" on Tuesday to talk about a number of hot issues, including Genera...
Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) - The owner of the drilling rig involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico criticized the U.S. government'...
Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) - As a federal judge mulls whether to lift a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the ...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.25.2011
MORGAN CITY, La. — Mr. Charlie has seen the up and downs over the years in the oil patch off Louisiana's coast, but this could be the toughest s...
AP | NOAKI SCHWARTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Conservation groups on Wednesday unveiled a new version of an unusual agreement in which they will lobby for an oil comp...
David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011
The merits of Obama's decision to allow drilling off parts of the East Coast and Alaska can be debated. But it will soon expose the dirty little secret known to everyone in the oil industry "Dill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" was a sham.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
[UPDATED -- See part 2 in the Talking Points section.] This week's column will be presented in a sort of semi-liveblogging fashion. What you're getti...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The House, responding to growing public demand for more domestic energy, voted Wednesday to end a quarter-century ban on oil and na...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, ...
Grist | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011
After a day-long debate over energy legislation, the House passed the Democrats' "Comprehensive American Energy Security & Consumer Protection Act," a...
Al Meyerhoff | Posted 05.25.2011
The Bush assault on environmental protection is unprecedented -- it reaches deep into a host of government procedures and regulations, including rampant cronyism in key agencies and open hostility on Capitol Hill.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
There is an insidious nature to the rightwingers' propaganda about offshore oil drilling because they frame the issue in terms that seem commonsensical: "Drill more oil here at home and gas prices will go down."
Martin Bosworth | Posted 05.25.2011
Many Americans realize that destroying environmental resources to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like "something is being done."
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday lifted an executive ban on offshore oil drilling and challenged Congress to follow suit, aiming to turn th...
Posted 05.25.2011
***UPDATE*** 1:29pm: Bush has lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling. Today's financial headlines tell a story of a nation in bailout mode. B...
Earthfirst | Stephanie Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011
When you can't legally run for President, it frees you up to say the darndest things. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared at the Florida Climate Change Sum...
John Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011