Oil spill
THE MORNING BANTER: NSA Endings, Oil Spills, Ron Jeremy the Pianist, and Andy Murray's Mom v. Yoko Ono
Happy Tuesday! There is snow on the East Coast...on March 25th...Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the ...read more
BP to Pay Record $4.5 Billion Fine for Gulf Oil Disaster
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and pay a record $4.5 billion, including the biggest criminal fine in U.S. ...read more
The Continued Risk of Off Shore Drilling
Two years after a blowout on BP’s Macondo well killed 11 men and triggered the largest oil spill in U.S. history, oil companies are again plying the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Forty-one deep-water rigs are in the gulf. The vast majority of them are drilling new holes or ...read more