by Jonathan Hiskes. Oopsy daisy : An offshore oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. The platform, which was owned by the Houston-based Mariner Energy,... 

by Jonathan Hiskes. Save your $10 and skip the movie theater this summer. “The litany of weather incidents during the summer of 2010 reads like the latest Hollywood global disaster movie,” Nathanial Gronewold writes at... 

by Jonathan Hiskes. Brace yourselves for this: An energy executive has been caught bending the truth to downplay an environmental disaster. Shocking, I know. The culprit here isn’t BP’s Tony Hayward or Massey Energy’s... 

by Randy Rieland. There’s an oil spill in Michigan and the energy bill’s now a little slip of a thing , but a lot of other stuff happened this week that didn’t grab big headlines. Here are 10 stories from the greenosphere... 

by Randy Rieland. Crack open the flat seltzer. The U.S. is no longer the world’s top energy hog. That dubious distinction now goes to China , although China insists there’s been a terrible mistake . We actually have a... 

by Randy Rieland. We’ve gone from a gush to a seep in the Gulf.  Read More →

by Jonathan Hiskes. Penn State historian Adam Rome studies the American environmental movement and is working on a book about the first Earth Day, which was prompted in part by an offshore drilling disaster in Santa Barbara. Yesterday,... 

by Jonathan Hiskes. The Washington Post brings the serious gloom and doom today with a front-page story: ” Historic oil spill fails to produce gains for U.S. environmentalists .” It’s making the rounds among green... 

by Ashley Braun. When catastrophe strikes — be it asteroids, aliens, or tornadoes — it’s always best to call in the heavyweights. Celebrities, that is. After all, Hollywood deals with epic disasters and explosions... 

by Randy Rieland. Big Banking, Big Auto, and Big Coal have all been to the woodshed in the last little while. Tomorrow it’s Big Oil’s turn. Capitol Hill Summer Theater kicks off in style when the top execs of the world’s... 

by Jonathan Hiskes. If there’s one thing the leaking gash in the Gulf of Mexico seems to make clear, it’s that private companies shouldn’t be left unwatched to meddle with the messy innards of our planet. They shouldn’t... 

by Randy Rieland. He’s the senior senator from South Carolina, a smooth-talking one-time Air Force attorney and JAG instructor whom a lot of Republicans don’t trust and call a RINO (Republican in Name Only).  Read More →

A twenty-five year wait for first convictions relating to the gas leak at Bhopal chemical plant in India ends, but the contamination of the local environment and population continues An Indian court has convicted seven people for their... 

A twenty-five year wait for first convictions relating to the gas leak at Bhopal chemical plant in India ends, but the contamination of the local environment and population continues An Indian court has convicted seven people for their... 

by Jonathan Hiskes. Lindsey Graham, one of the “more sensible” Senate Republicans, said he won’t support a climate change plan, because, well, the challenge is too hard. The National Journal reports (behind a paywall):... 

by Jonathan Hiskes. Lindsey Graham, one of the “more sensible” Senate Republicans, said he won’t support a climate change plan, because, well, the challenge is too hard. The National Journal reports (behind a paywall):... 

by Jonathan Hiskes. There are vigorous debates about when we reached, or will soon reach, peak oil , the stage at which we’ve used more of the planet’s oil than we have left in supply. But it’s plenty clear that... 

by Jonathan Hiskes. Will Democratic leaders try to merge climate legislation with politically popular get-tough-on-BP measures? This morning Politico hints as much : the strategy now will be to include climate provisions in a BP SPILL... 

by Randy Rieland. Here’s something to fill you with confidence on the eve of BP’s risky “Top Kill” gambit: Workers on the Deepwater Horizon rig missed warnings that something was seriously wrong before the... 

by Jonathan Hiskes We do not live in the Gulf of Mexico, you stupid oil company.Oil companies are supposed to have spill-response plans prepared before they begin drilling in American offshore waters. Minerals Management Service safety...