After 3 long months, the bleeding from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been finally, mercifully stanched. But in so many ways, the prognosis remains uncertain. Which species will rebound, and which have been pushed beyond the brink?
The federal government has shut down sand dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico. The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil.
A news story based on prior experience about how the EPA and labor unions blocked efforts to avert the BP oil rig catastrophe. Some of you must read this to believe it.
Worst case? The methane bubble explodes, causing a tsunami that wipes out 80% of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Large portions of Texas are also destroyed. The Gulf islands and Mexico will be in the same boat.
The disaster in the Gulf continues as BP's efforts at containment keep hitting snags. Many criticize the government for not doing enough. The reality is there is only so much government can do to help, yet a lot they can do to prolong the problem.
Where’s Obama going for advice on the Gulf oil disaster? There’s a compilation from the RNC that makes the case that Obama’s actions mirror cues from the media. There’s also evidence that the president is listening to the Center for American Progress
Some say there’s little doubt that if a spill like the one in the Gulf took place on former President George W. Bush’s watch, environmental groups would have unleashed an unsparing fury on the Republican in the White House.
It's often said that in order to go green, we have to change our lifestyles. I say BOSH on that. My lifestyle got changed for me when my partner in a lucrative and growing business had a nervous breakdown.
The Obama administration doubled its minimum estimate of how much crude oil was gushing from the Deepwater Horizon oil well, saying a panel of scientists had concluded that 20,000 to 50,000 barrels, or as much as 2.1 million gallons, were pouring int
Shares of BP Plc gained Monday after it announced progress in containing its Gulf of Mexico oil leak but the energy giant still faced tough questions from investors and U.S. lawmakers as the spill threatened more of the U.S. Gulf coast.
In many ways, the 'green' movement is the Puritanism of our era. But these neo-Puritans have yet to fully explain why the rest of us should conform to their scientifically dodgy ideals.
By injecting solid objects overnight as well as heavy drilling fluid into the stricken well leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers appeared to have stemmed the flow of oil, Adm. Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard, the leader of the government e
As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned around him, Chris Pleasant hesitated, waiting for approval from his superiors before activating the emergency disconnect system that was supposed to slam the oil well shut at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexi
This morning has been a real education as I followed Carol Browner, Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy (Climate Czar), through her morning interviews this morning on both CNN and Fox News. My conclusion on how the
Heavy oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill threatened Louisiana marshlands on Thursday after washing ashore for the first time since a BP-operated rig exploded a month ago, sparking ecological disaster.
“The modern plague of overpopulation is solvable by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not the sufficient knowledge of the solution, but the universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem for billions of
“People who take issue with population control do not understand that if it is not done in a graceful way [birth control and family planning], nature will do it in a brutal fashion.” Henry Kendell
Across the planet, humanity faces its greatest crisis in the 21st century created by its own fecundity. Demographic reports show human beings growing from 6.7 billion to a mind-numbing 9.2 low estimate to a high of 9.8 billion in 40 years. Whether
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