Breaking: Spill settlement unraveling as Halliburton slams deal; BP stock...
BP's $8.7 billion attempt to put the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill behind it continues to come undone. In the latest unraveling of the oil giant's proposed settlement with thousands of Gulf residents...
View ArticleLouisiana unloads and blows giant hole in BP settlement
For the last 29 months, I've been chronicling the widespread and still-very-much-ongoing fallout from BP's gross negligence -- "a corporate culture of recklessness," as U.S. government lawyers called...
View ArticleWe object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”
The last couple of weeks have brought a lot of news – both good and bad – down here to the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaac was a double whammy; the storm itself destroyed homes and upended people’s lives,...
View ArticleNow, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR
You've got to say this about British Petroleum -- they have some nerve. For more than two years, we've been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the sick and...
View ArticleLouisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac
In recent months, I've joined with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and others in calling for the state's Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to be stripped of its powers and for the federal...
View ArticleA temporary reprieve from Shell’s risky and reckless Arctic drilling scheme
For the last couple of weeks, we've been consumed with the never-ending fallout from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. Some 29 months after the explosion that killed 11 people and spewed 5 million...
View ArticleTorn on the bayou: Sinkhole keeps getting bigger, more dangerous
A lot has happened over the last few weeks. In the political world, the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sees a new kerfuffle every few hours. Down here in Louisiana, we've been...
View ArticleThe sinkhole keeps getting bigger, and so do the lies of Texas Brine Co.
The crisis involving the Bayou Corne sinkhole in Louisiana just doesn't stop. In what's becoming an almost daily headline, the sinkhole grew again, swallowing up more trees and even part of an access...
View ArticleNew Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution
Sometimes a name can tell you a lot. In the past, I've told you about my enthusiastic support for a New Orleans group, active on Facebook and the Internet, that's called "Hear the Music, Stop the...
View ArticleYou might even say it glows: The fracking wastewater edition
You're probably familiar with the old saying, "Water, water everywhere -- and not a drop to drink." But when it comes to the hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater that have been produced in the...
View ArticleJapan’s own BP: Dishonest TEPCO trashes ocean with radioactivity
The shocking environmental abuses of Japanese utility TEPCO -- the owner of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant -- have been lost in translation for Americans who stopped paying close attention after...
View ArticleShocker: The EPA’s plan to let you drink radioactive water
The world not long ago marked the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima reactor meltdown in Japan -- an ongoing nuclear crisis that may not be cleaned up for decades, and even that may be optimistic....
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