Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Policy Carol Browner takes your questions about the Deepwater BP Oil Spill and the Federal response to the disaster.
Carol Browner…
People who question what the U.S. is doing in the Middle East, along with our BFF Israel, should read Informed Comment on a regular basis. Juan Cole knows the Middle East, knows the language, and…
You read that correctly. Exxon, the most profitable company in the history of the world, paid no federal taxes at all last year. Instead, they got a $156,000,000 tax refund from the IRS. Regular…
Below is smuggled video of Israel’s deadly attacks, and the response to that, on the ship the Mavi Marmara, part of the humanitarian aid flotilla for Gaza, on May 31st. This video shows wounded…
These bastards have no shame. There is no end to their greed, all at the expense of our environment.
BP Gulf Oil Spill No Barrier to $3.8 Billion Refinery Expansion
By Joe Carroll
June 2…
I’m getting so angry about this oil leak I have to take some time off reading and writing about it. I can’t look at any more oil-covered wildlife. I can barely look at reporters talking about it….
If President Obama can’t be believed, what politician can be? Lately, it’s hard to trust anything any one in Washington says. So many people feel deceived by broken campaign promises. On many…
Photo: Sean Gardner - An Oil-covered pelican sits on the rocky shore line of Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery three miles north east of Grand Isle, Louisiana June 6, 2010.
Besides the Gulf Oil…
“Has the oil spill created a doomsday scenario” for the Gulf? MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann asks. I didn’t use the word Doomsday — they did. It’s not good to predict things will get too horrible because…
President Obama met with President Mahmoud Abbas today, and called the situation in Gaza “unsustainable”. Then he called for moving ahead with a two-state “solution”, mentioned we will be…
December 1983, Washington D.C. Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
As you have probably heard, veteran journalist Helen Thomas (pictured at left with the actor who played a president for 8 years, Ronald…
Laughing Bird Caye, Belize, south of the Gulf of Mexico
Today is World Oceans Day. See more here on it. It should be a day of mourning for the Gulf of Mexico too. People are ruining the oceans off…
Photographer Chronicles Petroleum Planet
Edward Burtynsky is a photographer, and in his new photos he shows us how addicted to oil our country has become. Our entire transportation system is built…
The Israeli government is causing huge problems for itself and for the United States. It bothered a lot of people to hear that highly respected veteran journalist Helen Thomas was forced to “retire”…
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Cabinet members and senior administration officials during a meeting on the BP oil spill, in this White House handout photograph taken on May 14, 2010,…
