Filed By John M. Becker | September 13, 2013 2:30 PM


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New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle-and a nightmare ( Read more... )

Shell: 54,600 gallons of oil spilled in North Sea
Source - Associated Press
Meera Selva and Ben Mcconville
On Monday August 15, 2011, 12:39 pm EDTLONDON (AP) -- Royal Dutch Shell estimated Monday that 54,600 gallons of oil have spilled into the North Sea from an oil rig off Scotland's eastern coast ( Read more... )

Olbermann: If The Tea Party Wins, America Loses (VIDEO)

Perhaps using a reverse echo of MSNBC's new slogan ("Lean Forward"), Keith Olbermann launched into the tea party on Wednesday night during a special comment that included a bumper-sticker-ready catch phrase: "Vote Backward, Vote Tea Party."

The "Countdown" host railed against the movement, ( Read more... )

That's right! The little troopers are actually eating the oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bacteria seem to be doing a good cleanup job in gulf
Data collected months ago show populations of carbon-eating bacteria rising in parts of a plume of oil. Now, in the area where the bugs were collected, scientists 'do not see detectable oil.'

( Step aside, humans! )

BP Media Clampdown: Journalists Now Face Possibility of Fines, Prison Time

A month ago, National Incident Commander Thad Allen issued an order granting the media "uninhibited access" to the areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was routinely and often brazenly ignored.

Thirty days later, it should be said that the order essentially ( Read more... )

NEW ORLEANS - A U.S. judge Tuesday ruled against the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill. The White House, which had hoped the ban would provide time to ensure other wells are operating safely, immediately said it planned to appeal ( Read more... )

G.O.P. Stalwart Says Come, the Gulf’s Fine

By MARK LEIBOVICH

GULFPORT, Miss. - “Get a picture of that beach!” Gov. Haley Barbour ordered a group of television photographers standing along an oil-less stretch of sand Monday.

“They are gorgeous, pristine,” the governor gushed on Tuesday about Mississippi’s shores“Beautiful,” he reiterated ( Read more... )

"The gusher unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew crude oil. There are no reliable estimates of how much oil is pouring into the gulf. But it comes to many millions of gallons since the catastrophic blowout. Eleven men were killed in the explosions that sank one of the most sophisticated drilling rigs in the world, the "Deepwater ( Read more... )

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Tell me what you think of this. I'm in the mood to hear some criticism of her, especially since I have to represent her views in a student forum tomorow night.

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