With the BP oil spill becoming possibly the worst ecological disaster in US history, why are Dems like Jon Kerry still supporting offshore drilling?

Ten days after the BP oil rig collapsed into a flaming ball of oil on April 20, I wrote a post about how most of the environmental groups still had nothing about it on their landing pages. Here was the Sierra Club’s landing page on the morning of April 30: I chalked it up to [...]

Global Green has a video of the fishermen of Shell Beach, Louisiana, who know that the BP oil spill will probably soon put them out of business: Anthony Greco III: I’ve been fishing all my life. Robert Campo: I don’t have Type A blood, I’ve got type saltwater.  My family’s been at this four generations. [...]

FDL produced this video mashup of the two known clips of underwater footage of the remnants of the Deepwater Horizon gushing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Our video combines today’s video release of the largest leak still releasing oil with footage from last week’s successful capping of another leaking pipe. There is still a third pipe, not shown, leaking oil.

It’s difficult to watch the disaster unfolding, knowing there’s little you can do to stop the inevitable destruction. It’s even more difficult to know that President Obama wants to build even more offshore oil rigs and put more of our oceans at risk.

That’s why Firedoglake is launching a TV ad against expanded offshore drilling, featuring images of the destruction in the Gulf and President Obama’s own voice advocating for more offshore oil drilling, even after the BP disaster.

Join us in saying no to expanded offshore drilling. Click here to help put our ad against offshore drilling on the air in DC.

I’ve been watching in amazement as a massive oil slick–larger than many small countries–slowly makes it way to the Gulf coastline, some of our nation’s best fishing grounds and most biologically diverse ecosystems. Because of the strong winds, it should reach land soon (or already has), and the choppy seas are making attempts to clean [...]

T. Boone says that too much is being made of the BP oil spill.  Don’t worry, it’ll all get cleaned up.

The Coast Guard is working to try to clean up a roughly 2,100 square-mile oil slick in the gulf of Mexico caused by a deep sea oil drilling operation. That means the oil slick is now covering more surface area than 31 different sovereign nations, and could possibly grow even larger. As we watch a [...]