It may not be as big as researchers predicted last month, but this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone is larger than …
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This Year’s Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Could Be the Biggest on Record
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico—a growing and shrinking region of oxygen-free water—could be the largest on record this summer, thanks to flooding and fertilizer runoff.
A Rig Accident off Alaska Shows the Dangers of Extreme Energy
A drilling rig runs aground off the Alaska coast, underscoring the dangers of Arctic drilling
The Romney Energy Plan: Drill, Baby, Drill — Again
The soon-to-be Republican nominee offers a familiar — and ineffective — mix of stepping up production and standing down on the environment
Why Obama’s Offshore Drilling Plan Isn’t Making Anyone Happy
Is it just me, or is the past getting past faster than ever before? It wasn’t that long ago—a little more than a year and a half—that President Obama stood at Andrews Air Force Base and outlined an ambitious energy deal. Greens would get the carbon cap-and-trade legislation they had been working for since the start of his time in …
Government Report Blames BP on Oil Spill. But there’s Plenty of Fault
Federal investigators from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Resource Management and Enforcement (BOERME) finally issued their long-delayed report today on the causes of last year’s Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill. The results are not very surprising: BP, and to a lesser extent contractors like Transocean and Halliburton, made …
Why Oil Exploration in the Arctic Is Another Sign of the Drive for Extreme Energy
Well, there’s one thing you should take away from the Interior Department’s decision yesterday to conditionally allow the oil company Shell to begin drilling exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean: the Obama Administration is not anti-energy. Despite constant complaining from the energy industry and Republicans in Congress that the White …
Scientists Predict Record Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” Due to Mississippi Flooding
The effects of this spring’s extreme flooding of the Mississippi River have been – pardon the pun – spilling over into every possible corner of the area’s residential, commercial, and agricultural life over the last two months. And it looks like the environment hasn’t escaped either: researchers from the University of …
The Hows and Whys of a Possibly Record-Breaking Tornado Month
The South is reeling from what could be one of the deadliest tornado systems in U.S. history. Yesterday storms and tornadoes ripped through Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia, killing as many as 200 people, and potentially far more. At least 139 separate tornadoes were reported yesterday. That number is almost certain …
Looking Back and Looking Forward One Year After the Gulf Oil Spill
Today marks a year after the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, destroying the Deepwater Horizon and beginning the worst oil spill in U.S. history. We’ve worked up a few pieces that look back at the effects of the spill, and look forward on the future of offshore drilling. Click on them here:
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