• Disaster in the Amazon

  While the gulf tragedy is the big oil story of the moment, Ecuador is still hurting from destructive drilling going back decades.

  Jun 4, 2010

  Disaster in the Amazon

  Behind every ecological insult visited upon the planet by reckless oil companies, there is governmental complicity. In some cases it is lax oversight associated with incompetence or laziness, and at other times it is a willful refusal to enforce the rules because the civil servant has been paid off in some fashion. Just as the penalties for companies which circumvent the oversight need to be severe, the government employees who fail to do their jobs must not only lose those jobs, but also be banned from future government service in any capacity.

• BP wanted to join the party. They have done so.
• Jun 4, 2010

  Putting a Face on the Gulf Oil Leak

  The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico finally has a face.