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Associated Press via The Washington Post 2/23/2012 JUNEAU, Alaska — Fed up with mounting legal bills and rattled by intense scrutiny of her family and work, Sarah Palin was ready to step down as Alaska’s governor months before she left office in July 2009. Emails released Thursday, most from the last 10 months of her […] February 24th, 2012 | Tags: BP, emails, FOIA, North Slope, Sen. John McCain, Todd Palin | Category: Alaska, Ethics, Politics, sarah palin | Comments are closed
Alaska pipeline offline indefinitely Jack H. Barnes Business Insider 1/9/2011 Here comes the spark Crude needed to break out… BP has had to shut down the Alaska oil pipeline due to a “significant” leak at Pump Station 1. It appears that a section of pipe that is buried in concrete is leaking. This is going […] January 9th, 2011 | Tags: Alyeska, BP, North Slope, oil leak, Trans-Alaska Pipeline | Category: Alaska, Energy | Comments are closed
The report was written to favor the moratorium, the Interior inspector general says. Dan Berman Politico 11/9/2010 The White House rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report. In […] November 10th, 2010 | Tags: BP, Carol Browner, Gulf of Mexico, moratorium, offshore drilling ban, Rep. Bill Cassidy, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar | Category: Barack Obama, Department of the Interior, Economy, Energy, Louisiana, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
U.S. Issues New Rules on Offshore Drilling John M. Broder The New York Times 9/30/2010 WASHINGTON — The Interior Department tightened its rules on offshore oil and gas operations on Thursday but left in place the moratorium on deepwater drilling that has left oil executives frustrated and Gulf Coast officials fuming. The new rules — […] October 1st, 2010 | Tags: BP, Gulf of Mexico, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, oil and gas drilling | Category: Cuba, Department of the Interior, Energy, Environment, Florida | Comments are closed
Meredith Jessup The Blaze 9/13/2010 WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. Bush’s much-maligned […] September 13th, 2010 | Tags: BP, government waste, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill | Category: Barack Obama, Federal spending, Media, Michelle Obama | Comments are closed
John Verum Serum 8/11/2010 Robert Bluey at Big Journalism finds this example of MSM neutrality. Watch this clip: The reporter in the above clip was actually suspended for exhibiting right-wing bias. Why? Because he dared to mention that President Obama was BP’s #1 cash recipient…which is a fact. Apparently, mentioning facts in news reports […] August 12th, 2010 | Tags: ABC News, BP, Doug McKelway, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Public Citizen, WJLA | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, Media accountability, Progressives, Video | Comments are closed
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