Arbitrary and capricious BP settlement needs a do-over
As regular readers know, I have been working on behalf of a long list of everyday residents business owners and citizens of the Gulf region, and I have strongly objected to the terms of the $7.8...
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – November 15, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
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A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleWeekend Environmental Must-Reads – November 17-18, 2012
A selection of this weekend’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – November 19, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
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A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – November 27, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – November 28, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – November 30, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – December 13, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – December 17, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – December 20, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleWeekend Environmental Must-Reads – December 22-23, 2012
A selection of this weekend’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleOur fight for a fair BP settlement will go on
It may well be a accident of timing -- all of us are racing to complete unfinished tasks before the Christmas holiday -- but a major piece of news regarding BP and the ongoing quest for justice in the...
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – December 28, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 16, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 23, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 30, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – February 1, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – February 6, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleFeds investigate wrongdoing by lawyer on plaintiff’s committee in BP case
There's a huge twist in the complicated legal fight surrounding BP and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. Federal prosecutors are now investigating one of the lawyers on the powerful Plaintiff's...
View ArticleBoo hoo — BP sheds crocodile tears as it seeks to duck responsibility for the...
Every so often, I worry that I've lost my capacity to feel anger and outrage over the oily monster that is British Petroleum -- but if there's one thing that BP is very good at, it's fueling...rage....
View ArticleRFK Jr: “I think BP are getting off lightly”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a revered name in environmental circles, and for good reason. As the son of an iconic, martyred U.S. senator and presidential candidate, and the nephew of the late 35th...
View ArticleMassive La. tar mat demolishes claim that Gulf is back to normal
When it comes to the 2010 BP oil spill, I'm beginning to think that Louisiana is becoming some bizarro-world where up is down and left is right. The more that BP and the federal government insist that...
View ArticleScientific panel says BP damage to the Gulf is incalculable
If you follow the business news, you may have heard that BP has nearly burned through the money -- believed to be some $40 billion -- that the oil giant set aside to pay the array of claims and...
View ArticleNYT columnist doubles down on the pro-BP stupid
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera won't back down. Even though his past columns defending corporate polluter BP and its wanton recklessness and portraying Gulf Coast residents seeking justice as...
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – August 6, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleJindal: “Tough” on BP, a lapdog for Big Oil
This is how you know BP has really crossed the line: When the company that gave us the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the 5-million-barrel oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has gone so far over the top...
View ArticleHow BP poisoned 170,000 Gulf cleanup workers
The most misunderstood -- and arguably the most tragic -- outcome of the 2010 BP oil spill is the very serious risk to an estimated 170,000 citizens who had some role in cleaning up the environmental...
View ArticleBP must have a death wish
A couple of days ago I wrote about a new low for BP: Allegations that officials with the British oil giant or its massive PR firm Ogilvy & Mather may have been aware of an online social media smear...
View ArticleOutrageous BP seeking to welch on settlement
BP has got to be the most un-self-aware company in the history of global capitalism. The recent criminal trial in federal court here in New Orleans exposed the very worst of the British oil giant's...
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This BP oil pollution isn’t from 2010. It’s from Tuesday.
The calendar just flipped over to 2014 -- that means that it won't be long until April, and the 4th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. A lot has happened since then...
View ArticleBP’s desperate, pathetic attack
There's a new stench hovering over the Gulf Coast, and once again BP is responsible. This time, however, it is the sour smell of desperation. I've told you several times in recent months that BP --...
View ArticleBP wants us to forget — even as oil from Exxon’s spill in 1989 is still...
A few of you may not remember 1989 very well, but I do. America was experiencing the first few months of the George Bush presidency -- not the son but the father, George H.W. Bush. The B-52s and "Love...
View ArticleWhen the U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn’t representing commerce…or the U.S.
On one hand, it should come as no surprise that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to enter the dispute over the BP's multi-billion dollar settlement with residents and small business owners on the...
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – May 5, 2014
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleThe other side of the BP story in the Gulf
A lot of people are talking about a story that aired Sunday night on the popular CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" about BP and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. In essence, the story was an opportunity for...
View ArticleMore on how ’60 Minutes’ whitewashed BP
Earlier this week, I told you how the most important story regarding BP and the Gulf of Mexico -- its ongoing degradation of that precious natural resource, from the tar balls that assault our beaches...
View ArticleBP outrageously breaks another promise to the people of the Gulf
Over the last few months, I've watched in amazement as BP has spent untold millions of dollars on lawyers, on expensive full-page advertisements in America's leading newspapers, and on other media all...
View ArticleIn-depth: BP’s callous disregard for the Gulf and its people
This is the third and final installment in my in-depth report on how the Gulf is still suffering from the impact of BP's recklessness. You can read the first two parts of the series here and here:...
View ArticleBP steps up its war against the citizens on the Gulf Coast
Throughout 2014, BP has shown us its true colors, again and again. The "friendly, community-oriented company" that the British oil giant spent hundreds of millions of dollars depicting in its slick...
View ArticleSlammed twice by BP, shipper says “I’m not going to give up”
Earlier this summer, I told you about an outrageous breech of promise by BP -- how the oil giant was abruptly closing down an internal-claims program that was intended to help business owners who...
View ArticleThe revolt against the U.S. Chamber’s stunning betrayal of Main Street America
It's an idea that boggles the mind: America's largest, most powerful and best-known business organization siding AGAINST tens of thousands of its own members -- small- and mid-sized business owners in...
View Article“The people who live along the Gulf Coast know the truth”
It was gratifying to see that the editorial board of the New Orleans Times-Picayune has picked up on the issue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its treachery against the small- and mid-sized...
View ArticleBP’s new outrage: We can’t pay because oil is too cheap
Every time that I hear or read about what the folks at BP are up to lately, I have the same thought: Can you believe these guys? Forget -- if you can, for one minute -- that these are the people whose...
View ArticleBP can never pay enough for what it’s done
If anything has the ability to cut through the clutter in our 24/7 frenetic news cycle, it's Wall Street. Say what you will about the capital markets, but the way that investors react to important news...
View ArticleMore evidence that BP got off too easily
Last week I wrote here that BP's $54 billion payout for damages and restoration from the 2010 Gulf oil spill just wasn't really enough -- both because of the ongoing environmental damage from the...
View ArticleThe BP settlement isn’t good enough for Plaquemines Parish
I've long said that no likely BP settlement would ever be enough for the damage that its 2010 oil spill caused to the Gulf region. Mostly, that's a moral argument: The purpose of punitive damages is...
View ArticleThey still don’t take seafood safety seriously in the Gulf
In more than a quarter century as an environmental lawyer, I've learned a lot about the mostly ineffective ways that government regulators do their jobs -- and that learning curve definitely...
View ArticleLouisiana’s wetlands do not need this
The big, potentially positive story in Louisiana environmental circles has been the push to restore the state's depleted wetlands. It had become increasingly clear that something had gone terribly...
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