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photos courtesy AP.As the oil is pushed ashore by strong winds, booms are showing their limitations. We’re glad to see federal military resources being brought to this slow motion tragedy, but we’re going to need more help, as this fragile ecosystem is hammered by the river of oil, still uncontrolled, coming ashore. Looking at the […]

We can see it from space, and we can smell it from New Orleans.

Our friends at Greenpeace captured some images of cleanup at the surface of the oil plume, which has been revised upward to a flow rate of over 200,000 gallons a day. Finally some cleanup is being done, but with weather conditions anticipated to get worse, unlikely this will be able to continue. Unsure if attempts

BP and the Coast Guard should have been more prepared to deal with a deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The following summary of a year 2000 intentional deepwater oil spill research experiment undercuts the Coast Guard’s claims that the Deepwater Horizon spill is something that no one could have been prepared for.The

Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry admitted tonight that the BP oil drilling disaster is pumping over 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf. Given that the rig sank on the 22nd, we can now estimate that somewhere close to 1.5 million gallons of oil have been released into the Gulf. This spill

It was just two days before Earth Day, and a few weeks after President Obama’s call to increase drilling in off-shore areas, when an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles off of Louisiana’s coast, near the Breton and Delta National Wildlife Refuges.Tragically, it appears that 11 missing crewmembers have been killed.

As the consequences from the massive BP oil drilling disaster in the Gulf continue to unfold, proponents of increased offshore drilling have remained remarkably silent about how “safe and environmentally friendly” offshore drilling can be. However, some drilling supporters do like to point out how rarely accidents like this occur.Oil drilling disasters of this magnitude

Not quite sure how to respond to this just yet. Today’s daily briefing from the Unified Command rolled out this idea. It’s terrifying on its face, lighting up a 2,000 square mile area of the Gulf that’s being expanded by uncontrolled, twin gysers of oil from the sea floor 5,000 feet down.More details are necessary

Just two days before Earth Day, a few weeks after President Obama’s call to increase drilling in off-shore areas, an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles off of Louisiana’s coast, near the Breton and Delta National Wildlife Refuges.Tragically, it appears that 11 missing crewmembers have been killed. In addition to the