Responding to polls that suggested the American people believed the federal government was not adequately responding to the oil spill, President Obama announced in May that he would triple oil spill response resources. That decision, a draft report from the national oil spill commission says, may have actually hindered More…
The federal government was not prepared to determine how chemical dispersants should be used to break up oil in the event of a massive oil spill, a draft report released today by the national oil spill commission says.
According to the report, which was released in conjunction with three More…
A draft report released today by the national oil spill commission provides new details on a much-criticized August assessment by the Obama administration of the “fate of oil” from the Gulf oil spill. While much of the information in today’s report has already come out in press accounts, the More…
The national oil spill commission released today four reports written by commission staff assessing the government’s response to the Gulf oil spill. The reports offer a detailed look at the oil spill from a number of angles, including the use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil that More…
In making its decision to expand offshore drilling earlier this year (before the massive oil spill in the Gulf), the Obama administration did not work closely with two key federal bodies responsible for environmental oversight.
At the second meeting of the National Oil Spill Commission today, White House Council More…
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…
Obama administration officials are heading down to the Gulf tomorrow to oversee the ongoing recovery efforts there. The officials will stop in at the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Venice, La., which is scheduled to reopen on Sunday for the first time since the BP oil spill.
As expected, the White House released the details of an administration report that says “vast majority” of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the last several months has been “either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed.”
This afternoon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association released a report on the impact of climate change in the United States. Its aim is as much political as it is scientific — The Guardian calls it “part of a carefully crafted strategy by the White House to help build More…
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