Tag: Gulf of Mexico
Littwin: How could Wayne Williams miss that the voter-fraud panel is...
It's strange enough that Wayne Williams, Colorado's Secretary of State, had to call a news conference to try to calm the political waters he...
Senators bundle House bills into WEST Act to expedite energy exploration,...
Some the most anti-environmental legislation to pass the House has been bundled together into an omnibus bill in the Senate called the Western Economic Security Today (WEST) Act.
Congress narrowly passes CLEAR Act as Salazar joins GOP opposition
The U.S. House Friday evening narrowly passed the Consolidated Land, Energy and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act by 209-193 margin, with Colorado’s delegation split 3-3...
Calls for Salazar’s head coming from both left and right
You know you’re having a bad month or two at the office when the calls for your head are coming from both the left...
WashPo: BP’s gusher ‘more or less’ capped
The Washington Post reports the first good news to come from BP's gusher zone in the Gulf. It's not unqualified good news but it's...
Wadhams rips Ritter for invoking BP spill in Colorado drilling debate
FOX News last week poached the lede from the third installment of a Colorado Independent series on Gov. Bill Ritter’s oil and gas drilling...
In Gulf spill aftermath, oil workers lack advocate
The largest oil spill in U.S. history has received no absence of congressional scrutiny. Yet as lawmakers continue to focus their examinations on the environmental, economic and energy implications of the disaster, a number of labor advocates are beginning to wonder: What about the workers?
Gulf gusher could bankrupt BP
On Saturday, BP announced the failure of “top kill,” its effort to plug the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Markets around...
Pat Campbell will attempt to plug the Gulf oil gushers today
This guy, "fat boy" Pat Campbell, is probably going to save the Gulf of Mexico today from further catastrophe, after British Petroleum and the...
Former federal, state officials ask Salazar to step up energy reforms
A group of 60 former state and federal regulators who previously oversaw energy extraction on public lands fired off a letter to Secretary of...