Tag Archives: gulf coast

Having learning nothing from the Gulf disaster, BP allows crude oil to pour into Lake Michigan

By Mark | March 25, 2014

It looks like our friends at BP are up to their old tricks again. This time, though, the oil being spilled isn’t in the Gulf of Mexico, where the company’s cost-cutting measures in 2010 led to the largest oil spill in recorded history, but in Lake Michigan, the largest repository of fresh water on the […]

Posted in Environment, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged BP, British Petroleum, Corporate Crime, crude oil, Deepwater Horizon, drinking water, fresh water, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Indiana, Lake Michigan, Michigan, oil, pollution, tar sands, Whiting, Whiting refinery | 10 Comments

Anti-science Republicans and their vision for the future of America

By Mark | November 11, 2010

A few days ago, I was jumping around the web, reading the news, when a comment that someone had left after an article caught my attention. A woman had asked what the Republican endgame was. She wanted to know where, if we stopped resisting and allowed them to lead us, the Republicans would take us. […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, energy, Environment, Politics | Also tagged American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, anti-science, BP, carbon dioxide, CO2, corporate, Corporate Crime, corporate takeover of politics, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, greenhouse gas, Henry Waxman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, incandescent light bulbs, Joe Barton, John Boehner, John Shimkus, LED light bulbs, military spending, National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, Noah, oil spill, Pledge to America, research funding, Science, the flood, those anti-science Republicans, Tony Hayward, traditional values | 11 Comments

Plug the hole with Rush!

By Mark | May 2, 2010

Locked in heated battle with Sarah Palin for leadership of the delusional Tea Party wing of the Republican party, Rush Limbaugh went for broke today, suggesting not only that the recent BP oil spill was the work of a radical environmentalist, but also that the ocean would somehow remediate the environmental disaster itself. Here, if […]