Tag: Gulf oil spill

Well guess what? So far those job losses haven’t materialized and even the federal government projections of “23,000 lost jobs and $10.2 billion in economic damage — is proving to be too pessimistic”.

Kevin Costner may be a Hollywood actor, but he’s also helped develop technology that may end up helping to clean up the oil spill resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak: BP has purchased 32 of Costner’s machines according to Costner who was interviewed by Sam Champion on Good Morning…

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Lee, the far-right conservative who won the Republican Party’s nomination in Utah, sat down last week Friday with Robert Gehrke of the Salt Lake Tribune for an interview, and during that interview, Lee was asked if he supported efforts, such as the one offered by…

Though the apology by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) to BP over the $20 billion shakedown BP was subjected to at the hands of the Obama administration, was met with almost universal scorn by folks on both the left and the right, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave Westlake seems to agree…

This is too funny not to share…. H/T to Nick Schweitzer.

Just a couple of random BP-related thoughts this morning: President Obama isn’t getting much love for his speech from the Oval Office on Tuesday, with pundits from both the left and the right saying the speech fell flat. To be honest, this is a speech the President should have much…

As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil leak continues, Sen. Russ Feingold has been working on initiatives to not only hold BP accountable for the disaster while making the oil industry as a whole more accountable in the future. Sen. Feingold’s current…