The Washington Post reported today that a new report by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute that says there is a plume of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that stretches 21 miles from the Macondo well.
The report is the latest bit of information that contradicts a report More…
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee, slammed Obama administration officials today for releasing last week what he sees as an inadequate report on oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico.
A key subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow in an attempt to sort out varying accounts of the amount of oil that has been taken care of in the Gulf of Mexico. The hearing will also touch on seafood safety, another big issue More…
Time Magazine’s Bryan Walsh makes a good point today about a House hearing on the massive chunk of ice that broke off of a glacier in Greenland last week.
Walsh notes on Twitter: “The House hearing on #Arctic sea ice is an object lesson in why it’s so hard More…
At a Senate hearing today, Obama administration officials defended BP’s use of dispersants to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
Legislators may have concerns about the use of chemical dispersants to break apart oil in the Gulf, but testing from the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled today finds that oil mixed with dispersants has a similar toxicity to oil alone.
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass) released this weekend the findings of an investigation into the use of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico. The investigation finds “excessive” use of the potentially harmful chemicals used to break up oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, according to Markey.
The House passed an oil spill response package today in a 209-193 vote, despite strong objections from Republicans.
The package passed after hours of floor debate. Republicans argued that the bills are ill conceived, would kill jobs and are too far-reaching.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is not moved by the oil industry’s argument that House oil spill legislation would prematurely require specific blow-out preventer technology and other well design measures.
Industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute say the cause of the April explosion on the Deepwater Horizon well should More…
Momentum is building in the House to pass new regulations on the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, in which water, sand and a mixture of potentially harmful chemicals are injected into the ground in order to gain access to natural gas.
Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), the More…
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