DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:...
transocean-explosion-fire-sinking.jpg Offshore oil drilling giant Transocean released the results of an internal investigation this week on the causes of last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil r... . . . →...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: BP Urges...
bp-logo-fish_0.jpg Oil giant BP is urging the federal government to stop making payments to Gulf Coast residents affected by last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil geyser. BP claims that the impro... . . . →...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Is...
transocean-explosion-fire-sinking.jpg A new report released by authorities in the Marshall Islands says that the failure of oil rig workers to properly address safety issues led to last year's ca... ....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Justice...
bp_oil-leak.jpg The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an official investigation to determine whether or not BP lied to the public and to the government about the amount of oil that was leak... ....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Polluters Join Forces To Pressure Obama On Oil And Gas Drilling
Drill_Baby_Drill.jpg In the wake of President Obama’s speech on job creation last week, major players in the energy industry have banded together to put pressure on the president to speed u... . . . →...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Deepwater Horizon Still A Massive Headache For BP
bp-logo-dripping-oil.jpg The problems facing BP along the Gulf Coast continue to pile up. After more than a year of investigations, the U.S. Coast Guard has finally released their long-awaited as... ....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: BP Oil Dispersant Corexit Contained Cancer-Causing Agents
dispersant-application1.jpg A new report on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster of 2010 is providing adequate cause for concern for residents and clean up workers along the Gulf Coast. The...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: New Federal Report Says Gulf of Mexico Cleanup Needed “Urgently”
oil water.jpg A preliminary report released Wednesday by the federal Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force says that cleanup is needed for the Gulf of Mexico “urgently,” in orde... . . . → Read...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Brazilian Officials Investigating Chevron Oil Spill Off Coast
oil slick.jpg Law enforcement agencies in Brazil announced today that they would begin investigating the cause of an oil spill that occurred off the coast. Chevron's Frade Well off the coast of Brazil...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: LNG Groundhog Day: Cheniere Energy Signs Yet Another Gas Export...
shutterstock_33324859.jpg Another day, another unconventional gas export deal signed. Nascent North American LNG (liquefied natural gas) export deals are happening so fast and furiously that it is...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: BP Accuses Halliburton Of Destroying Evidence In Gulf Deepwater...
halliburton-logo.jpg Just months before trials are set to begin, BP is accusing Halliburton of destroying evidence related to their shoddy cement work that helped cause last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: BP Returns to Deepwater Offshore Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
800px-Deepwater_Horizon_offshore_drilling_unit_on_fire_2010.jpg BP, the oil major responsible for the biggest offshore oil disaster in U.S. history, is officially returning to deepwater oil drilling...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Report Partially Blames Federal Government For Deepwater Horizon...
Deepwater-Horizon-oil-rig-006.jpg Perhaps one of the most honest assessments of last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion reveals the numerous failures of both industry and the federal...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: What We Didn’t Learn From The Deepwater Horizon Disaster
oil-rig.jpg Almost 20 months have passed since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. And to this day, the lessons we should have learned...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: BP Launches PR Blitz To Repair Image
bp-logo-oil.jpg College football fans aren’t the only ones who’ll be paying close attention to what’s happening in Louisiana this evening – BP is hoping that tonight’s BCS championship game will be...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Waterkeeper Groups Sue Over Gulf Oil Leak Gushing For Seven Years...
Gulf Oil.jpg Like many Gulf Coast residents, I was highly skeptical when both the media and the Coast Guard told us that the tar balls we were seeing wash up on our shores in the months following the...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Deadly Bacteria Found In Gulf Coast Tar Balls
tar balls.jpg Since the very first tar balls began rolling onshore along the Gulf of Mexico following 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oilrig explosion and subsequent underwater oil geyser, the oil industry...
View Article350 or bust: Have We Learned Anything Yet?
It was two years ago today that the sea-floor started gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which was working on a BP oil project. Tragically, the...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: The State Of The Gulf Two Years After Deepwater Horizon Disaster
bp-logo-oil.jpg Today marks the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11 rig workers and subsequently caused an oil geyser in the Gulf of Mexico that leaked...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Justice Department Files First Criminal Charges In BP Oil...
bp_oil-leak.jpg The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its first criminal charges into their investigation into the cover up of BP’s oil geyser in the Gulf of Mexico. The charges have been filed...
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