What caused the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that led to the deaths of 11 workers and a catastrophic gush of oil that continues unabated to this day? According to a thorough examination by The New York Times, it wasn’t a single event but a combination of things. Regulatory agencies granted exceptions to [...]
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BP disaster: What went wrong, step by step
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, tagged big oil, BP, gulf of mexico, Halliburton, offshore drilling, oil, oil spill on June 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A month after the oil spill started, still no solution
Posted in Activism, Energy, Environment, tagged BP, Deepwater Horizon, Energy, Energy blog, gulf of mexico, Halliburton, Minerals Management Service, MMS, offshore drilling, oil spill, Transocean on May 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Happy anniversary, BP. It has been exactly one month since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig started a full-force environmental crisis. And yet, officials still have no effective solution to stop the oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, and we are no closer to an organization (whether it be BP, Transocean, Halliburton [...]
There will be blame: Oil spill meets The Daily Show
Posted in Activism, Energy, tagged BP, Deepwater Horizon, gulf of mexico, Halliburton, Joe Newman, Jon Stewart, oil spill, petition, The Daily Show, Transocean on May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Nobody can say it quite like Jon Stewart. The man has a gift for pointing out the absurd and capitalizing on it, granted, sometimes for a cheap laugh. The absurdity he highlighted in last night’s episode focused on the oil spill in the Gulf — discussing plans to stop the oil from pouring into the [...]
Don’t let the Senate weaken Franken amendment
Posted in Activism, Congress, Consumer Protection, tagged access to justice, Al Franken, arbitration, Halliburton on October 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Thanks to help from activists like you, lawmakers passed Sen. Al Franken’s (D-Minn.) amendment to bar defense contractors from forcing employees with sexual assault and discrimination claims into arbitration. But now, as the House and Senate negotiate a final version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (DOD Appropriations bill, H.R. 3326), Senate leaders are [...]
Franken goes to bat against forced arbitration again
Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, tagged access to justice, Al Franken, arbitration, Halliburton, Jamie Leigh Jones, KBR on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sen. Al Franken, the new patron saint of fair arbitration, tore into an arbitration apologist Wednesday, administering a beating that one would more expect to see in a boxing ring than a committee hearing room. If you don’t believe me, watch for yourself. Poor Mark de Bernardo, a partner at corporate-side employment law firm Jackson [...]

















