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BP Seeks Sweetheart Oil Spill Deal

October 19, 2012 By thegreenmiles

I spent weeks covering the Gulf oil disaster for the National Wildlife Federation, so to hear that BP thinks it can bully the Justice Department into giving it a sweetheart settlement deal? What's the word I'm looking for? Malarkey. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, bp-oil-spill, fishing, new-bedford

On Avoiding Blame, Part One, Or, Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Drill No Evil.

September 2, 2010 By fake-consultant

When I talk on the stage, people often have the impression that I make up things as I go along. That isn't true. I know a lot of things I want to say, I'm just not sure exactly when I'll say them. --From Lenny Bruce's book "How to Talk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, coast-guard, deepwater-horizon, economics, gulf-of-mexico, halliburton, hearings, national, oil, teansocean

We failed the people who cleaned up 9/11. Will we fail the people cleaning up the Gulf?

June 29, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund

In the aftermath of 9/11, we saw thousands of workers develop devastating respiratory conditions and other illnesses as a result of exposure to toxic dust that filled the air in the days and weeks after the twin towers fell. To this day, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, clean-energy, green-news, gulf-oil-spill, health, safety

Republicans Intervene In Traffic Accident, Call Settlement “Shakedown”

June 24, 2010 By fake-consultant

The facts of the case are as follows: Ms. Maya Normousbutt, a resident of Brighton, was taking her kids to the corn maze and haunted house at Murray Farms, also located in Brighton, when her parked vehicle was struck by another car driven … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, comedy, dick-timoneous, environment, humor, joe-barton, john-boehner, law-and-lawyers, oil, politics, republican-study-group, republicans, satire, snark

At Black Tie Ceremony, Feith Passes Torch To Barton

June 21, 2010 By fake-consultant

Respect to your great place! and let the devil Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne. -- Duke Vincentio, from William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure". There are probably some of you who are thinking: "That Feith name is familiar, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, carl-henric-svanberg, comedy, environment, gulf-of-mexico, humor, national, oil, satire, snark, tony-hayward

How government can regain its capacity to manage the oil spill

June 14, 2010 By dave-from-hvad

Why is this?  Have we, in fact, become a “hollow state” in which public agencies have little ability left to do anything other than rubber stamp corporate activities, many of which seem irresponsible if not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, gulf-oil-spill, privatization, project-management

BP’s New Station WITH POLL

May 30, 2010 By tedf

If you live in the Parkway, you probably have seen the new BP station at the corner of Centre Street and Belgrade Ave. The station was formerly a Getty station, and then a Lukoil station, but as a result of recent transactions, BP is has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boycott, bp, west-roxbury

Failures all around

May 27, 2010 By niki-tsongas

Going forward, we need to overhaul our regulatory framework and bring an end to the era where big oil companies call the shots at our expense. We also need to ensure that BP is held accountable for this disaster and pays every dime it owes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, energy, environment, oil-spill

Durbin is wrong: BP = “Broke the Planet”

May 25, 2010 By David

Sen. Dick Durbin to the NYT: "BP in my mind no longer stands for British Petroleum - it stands for Beyond Patience," said Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. "People have been waiting 34 days for British … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, gulf-spill

Watching BP

May 8, 2010 By liveandletlive

Will BP try to raise the price of gas in order to recoup the cost of the mess they created?  It seems they could be trying.   In an earlier post about abusive corporate practices, I noted that the price of gas at our local BP … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp, corporate-greed, corporate-responsibility, gulf-oil-spill, massachusetts, price-gouging, united-states

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