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BP Not LIving Up To Its Promises
As though our opinion of BP couldn’t get any lower:
In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day.
The disparity between what BP promised in its March 24 filing with federal regulators and the amount of oil recovered since the April 20 explosion underscores what some officials and
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Oil Spill Update: Epic Disasters Continues
Even beyond the President’s speech, the last few days have seen quite a bit of news about the oil spill. A brief recap:
The AP is reporting that
Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day. A government panel of scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between
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President Obama From the Oval: Too Little? Too Late?
White House officials appear to assume, correctly, that they can’t ‘win’ the oil spill. So they had to make the tragedy about something bigger than the oil. That’s why the president called for the first steps in ‘the transition away from fossil fuels’: ‘[T]he time to embrace a clean energy future is now. Now is the moment for this generation to embark on a national mission to unleash America’s innovation and seize control of our own destiny.’
The president’s speech:
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See the BP Spill on YOUR House
Having trouble visualizing the magnitude of the oil spill disaster? Tired of people using the word disaster until it’s meaningless? Here is the page for you – it will overlay the spill on your house using Google Maps.
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