Published on Monday, May 24, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Yes, Mr. President, It Was Your Katrina – Three Weeks Ago. Now it May Be Your Chernobyl by Robert Redick Dear Mr President, You’re a man of vision, intelligence, stamina and nerve. And you’re blowing it. A hemorrhage of poison is sickening the Gulf of Mexico. And [...]
Archive for May 2010
Yes, Mr. President, It Was Your Katrina – Three Weeks Ago. Now it May Be Your Chernobyl
May 24, 2010Gulf Oil Spill: Similar Disaster Could Occur in Arctic Later This Year
May 24, 2010Published on Monday, May 24, 2010 by The Telegraph/UK Gulf Oil Spill: Similar Disaster Could Occur in Arctic Later This Year The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has heightened fears of a similar disaster occurring off America’s Arctic coast, where Shell is due to begin exploratory drilling later this year. by Alex Spillius [...]
Strontium-90 Discovered in Soil Surrounding Vermont Yankee Leak
May 23, 2010Published on Sunday, May 23, 2010 by The Burlington Free Press (Vermont) Strontium-90 Discovered in Soil Surrounding Vermont Yankee Leak by Terri Hallenbeck MONTPELIER – Vermont Yankee reported Friday afternoon that the radioactive isotope strontium has been located in the soil near where tritium had been discovered leaking at the Vernon nuclear power plant in [...]
BP Refuses EPA Order to Switch to Less-Toxic Oil Dispersant
May 23, 2010Published on Sunday, May 23, 2010 by the Los Angeles Times BP Refuses EPA Order to Switch to Less-Toxic Oil Dispersant Oil washes ashore on 50 miles of Louisiana shoreline as tensions mount over how to treat the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. by Margot Roosevelt and Carolyn Cole Reporting from Los Angeles and [...]
Colombia Set to Elect the World’s First Green Leader
May 23, 2010Colombia Set to Elect the World’s First Green Leader by Esmé McAvoy If Antanas Mockus wins the Colombian elections – and polls indicate that he will – he won’t be your average president. Not only did he make his name when rector of the National University by dropping his pants and mooning a packed auditorium [...]
My Thoughts for Saturday!
May 22, 2010Today I met a new friend and that is always a good day for me. I met with another Green Party member and signed to get some Greens on the ticket to run for political office. Those who know me in real life can tell you I love politics!!! Always have. It makes me happy [...]
The Buck Stops on Obama’s Desk
May 22, 2010Published on Saturday, May 22, 2010 by CommonDreams.org The Buck Stops on Obama’s Desk by Lewis Seiler & Dan Hamburg One of the hopeful promises Barack Obama made to the country in 2008 was that if elected, his administration would reinstitute science-based decision making. We had all heard the stories of how, under George W. [...]
EPA Officials Weighing Sanctions Against BP’s U.S. Operations
May 22, 2010Published on Friday, May 21, 2010 by ProPublica EPA Officials Weighing Sanctions Against BP’s U.S. Operations by Abrahm Lustgarten Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts, a move that would ultimately cost the company billions in revenue and could end its drilling in federally controlled oil [...]
What Happens When a Serious Libertarian Gets Serious Attention
May 21, 2010Published on Friday, May 21, 2010 by The Nation What Happens When a Serious Libertarian Gets Serious Attention by John Nichols For Democrats, Rand Paul is going to be the gift who keeps on giving. Forget about pinning down the newly-minted Republican nominee for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat on the question of whether he [...]
Boycott BP
May 21, 2010Published on Friday, May 21, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Boycott BP by Robert Weissman Why? Because BP must pay. Eleven oil workers are dead. One of the largest oil spills in U.S. history continues to worsen. BP’s oil gusher at the floor of the Gulf of Mexico may be 100 times worse than BP first estimated [...]
