Environment

The latest version of the CLEAR Act is slated for a floor vote in the House this week as Democrats look for ways to use the Gulf oil spill as a means to pass elements of their unpopular energy agenda. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stripped out authorization for an independent investigation into the Gulf...
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Gus Lubin We’re so jaded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, no one paid much attention to last week’s spill in China and this week’s spill in Michigan. But the amount of oil spilled in the Kalamazoo River is not small: 1 million gallons of crude — the biggest spill ever in the Midwest. And...
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By Jeffrey Folks The commission appointed by President Obama to investigate the Gulf oil spill (the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling) does not include a single member with specialized knowledge of petroleum engineering. This is akin to performing a heart transplant with a surgical team that has never...
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Oil Spews From New Spill Site in Gulf
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BP will emerge from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis a smaller and wiser company, according to the man who is due to take over the reins. Bob Dudley, currently in charge of BP’s clean-up operation, will replace Tony Hayward as chief executive in October. Mr Dudley described the oil spill as a terrible tragedy...
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Gulf oil spill: Well will stay sealed through storm Federal officials said Thursday that they would leave the damaged BP well sealed even if the site is evacuated in advance of a storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf oil spill: BP criticized for cheaper, faster well option federal investigator hammered a top BP official Thursday on...
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WASHINGTON — Some 750 boats drafted in to scoop up oil from the Gulf of Mexico are having “trouble” finding any crude in the sea, a top US official said Wednesday, almost a week after a busted well was capped. “We are starting to have trouble finding oil,” US pointman Admiral Thad Allen, who is...
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NEW ORLEANS — A storm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug the ruptured oil well to a near standstill Wednesday just as BP was getting tantalizingly close to going in for the kill. Work on the relief well — now just days from completion — was suspended, and the cap that...
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Boon, thanks for throwing me some support. I appreciate it. I hesitated posting that because I knew it would be taken the wrong way by a few, like diverdan. But the logic is what the focus should be, and it is pretty simple logic, and hard to refute. Not only is the logic simple,...
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Posted by Heading Out on July 20, 2010 – 10:30am I rather suspect that we will know a lot more about the behavior of the sediments and matter at the bottom of the Gulf within the next year or so than we have learned in the past hundred years. I am looking at the view...
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