Aside from the continuation of our dependence on fossil fuel, the “Macondo Deepwater Horizon” blowout was probably the worst fossil-fueled environmental disaster ever.
Category: Fossil Fuel Industry
Earth Day 2026
Taking a day to celebrate those who have dedicated their lives to supporting our blue planet.
What’s next?
We have not yet seen how the current administration has synthesized any of the EIS comments we submitted this year, but given their proclivity to pushing the envelope to see what they can get away with, my suspicions are that they will ignore all public input and just see what we’ll do about it.
Rescinding the word “Harm” from the Endangered Species Act
By way of this semantic legerdemain they would open up the floodgates for extractive and construction industries to run roughshod over their operation areas without regulatory oversight or legal consequences.
15th Anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
A whole raft of regulations were signed into law after a litany of environmental disasters pissed the public off to the point that we were done giving industry free license to destroy our living habitat.
Fan Dance of the Oilmen
The industry is in their element when prices are around $100/bbl. When it falls to $50/bbl. they close up shop. So having lease sales in a sinking market may not yield the promises of “Drill, Baby, Drill.”
Dismantling the Administrative State
A “legal coup” has just occurred in the US. If we do not act strongly, July 4 2024 may be the last Independence Day we’ll see in a while.
14th Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
April brings up a lot of events. While Spring has already sprung, it is through April that we can enjoy the warming of the weather and the extending of daylight further into our evening hours (at least above the equator).…
Adaptive Management during the hottest week on record.
The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…
Field Report from OceaNoise2023
I’ve just returned from attending OceanNoise2023 – a tri-annual conference on marine bioacoustics – this one in Vilanova i la Geltrú, just 30 km down the coast from Barcelona, Spain. OceaNoise is one of the bi/triennial conferences that coagulate the…