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Oil Follies in the Arctic
http://act.commondreams.org/go/789?akid=68.124981.lopMUT&t=28

Controversial Salazar 'Moratorium' on Gulf Drilling Was Only Verbal
http://act.commondreams.org/go/790?akid=68.124981.lopMUT&t=30

Congressional Oversight of MMS Needed to Ensure Proper BP Atlantis Investigation
http://act.commondreams.org/go/791?akid=68.124981.lopMUT&t=32

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Why Do We Distance Ourselves from the Oil Disaster?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/792?akid=68.124981.lopMUT&t=34

Latest Attempt to Stop Oil Gusher
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Trusting the Scorpion: BP, the Legacy of Republican Hypocrisy and Democratic Cowardice
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BP CEO Supports a Boycott?
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Center for Biological Diversity Response to President Obama’s Gulf Disaster Speech: Temporary Suspension of Arctic Drilling Positive Step, But Permanent Protection of Arctic, Other Offshore Areas Needed
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Firing of MMS Head Is Damage Control, Not Real Reform
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Live Coverage from BP's Oil Volcano
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After Long Argument, BP Official Made Fatal Decision on Drilling Rig

Erika Bolstad, Joseph Goodman and Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers: "Company executives and top drill hands on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig argued for hours about how to proceed before a BP official made the decision to remove heavy drilling fluid from the well and replace it with lighter weight seawater that was unable to prevent gas from surging to the surface and exploding."

http://www.truthout.org/after-long-argument-bp-official-made-fatal-decision-drilling-rig59875



How BP Will Make Out Like Bandits From Its Massive, Still Gushing Oil Disaster

Zach Carter, AlterNet: "You've got to hand it to BP. After witnessing the Great Financial Crash of 2008, it seemed like it would be decades before any corporation could eclipse Wall Street's reckless rush to place its own short-term profits ahead of the public interest. But the epic drilling disaster off the Louisiana coast demonstrates that many of the problems that wrecked Wall Street are deeply embedded in other sectors of the American economy."

http://www.truthout.org/zach-carter-how-bp-will-make-out-like-bandits-its-massive-still-gushing-oil-disaster59853



BPing the Arctic? Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf?

Subhankar Banerjee, TomDispatch: "Bear with me. I'll get to the oil. But first you have to understand where I've been and where you undoubtedly won't go, but Shell's drilling rigs surely will - unless someone stops them. Over the last decade, I've come to know Arctic Alaska about as intimately as a photographer can."

http://www.truthout.org/bping-arctic-will-obama-administration-allow-shell-oil-do-arctic-waters-what-bp-did-gulf59841



BP: Obama's Do-Nothing "Root Causes" Commission

Max Ajl, Truthout: "Obama had this frozen, robotic expression on his face when he announced that he'd put his signature on the executive order establishing the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. He looked a bit like he'd been replaced with an animatronic doll, one programmed to speak very eloquently and say precisely nothing. Obama's commission is supposed to carry out a six-month investigation into the reasons underlying the explosion of the Deepwater Horizons offshore drilling rig. Securely informed and enlightened by such knowledge, the United States will be able to 'prevent and mitigate the impact of any spills that result from offshore drilling.'"

http://www.truthout.org/bp-oil-spill-ecosystem-slowly-being-murdered59903



Screw the Environment: BP and the Audacity of Corporate Greed

Dave Lindorff, Truthout: "Even as BP's blown well a mile beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico continues to gush forth an estimated 70,000 barrels of oil a day into the sea, and the fragile wetlands along the Gulf begin to get coated with crude, which is also headed into the Gulf Stream for a trip past the Everglades and on up the East Coast, the company is demanding that Canada lift its tight rules for drilling in the icy Beaufort Sea portion of the Arctic Ocean."

http://www.truthout.org/screw-environment-bp-and-audacity-corporate-greed59864



This Modern Life

Award-winning political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow focuses on the hypocrisy of politics in regulating corporations such as BP.

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Permanent destruction of Louisiana marshland
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/852.html



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