Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sent a letter to the national oil spill commission yesterday to “set the record straight” on an assertion in one of the commission’s draft reports released this week that has gotten quite a bit of attention.
The draft staff 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…
Oil giant Exxon Mobil spent less money on lobbying in the second quarter (April to June) of this year than it did during the same period last year, despite ongoing efforts by the Obama administration and Congress to reshape the way oil companies can drill offshore in light of the More…
The Obama administration has agreed to install solar panels on the White House. The decision comes after environmentalists, led by 350.org, met with White House staff last month to discuss the issue.
It’s important to note that there is a strong underlying political back story surrounding these panels. It More…
Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker story on the demise of the Senate climate bill makes clear that the Obama administration did not take seriously the oil spill risk associated with expanded offshore drilling.
The administration announced in March that it would expand offshore drilling — an effort to win support More…
Yesterday evening, Elizabeth Warren, responsible for setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spoke at a meeting of the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade association for the country’s biggest banks.
In the past, Warren has lambasted banks for purposefully creating opaque, obscure products to make a buck off of More…
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is calling on BP to extend the deadline to apply for relief under a $100 million compensation fund for rig workers who have lost their jobs under the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling. The Associated Press reported this week that fewer than 400 people have More…
The Obama administration is drafting a second pipeline plan, which is expected to be released in the coming days. While the first administration proposal was meant to be included in pipeline safety legislation, the second proposal will directly address leak detection regulations at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety More…
It turns out just under 400 people have applied for relief under a $100 million fund BP set up to compensate rig workers who lost their jobs because of the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling. The low number could indicate that the moratorium didn’t have as significant an impact More…
The right-leaning blogosphere is having some fun today with White House science adviser John Holdren. He said last week that the term “global warming” oversimplifies the complexities at play when greenhouse gas emissions are released into the atmosphere. “Global climate disruption,” he said, is a better term.
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