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Ana’s Feed
Congressional obstructionism. Climate obstructionism and its consequences.
Ana’s Feed Is All About Women
Reform, cooperation, the will of god, and more.
Ana’s Feed
Financial regs, income gap, Stone on U.S. in S.A.
Ana’s Feed
Supreme Court rulings of great import. And a film.
Ana’s Feed: Global Warming
People trying to survive the devastating effects of anthropogenic global warming.
DFL at Twin Cities Pride Festival
Come and visit the Stonewall DFL booth at this year’s Pride Festival!
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Ana’s Feed
Alarming reactionary Republicans, alarming contriving Republicans, and some good news.
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Whose oil spill is it? Factory farms and responsibility.
Ana’s Feed: Corporate Hubris, The True Cost of Chevron, and More Oil
When Corporations Rule Federal Agencies
The fatal disasters at the Upper Big Branch Mine and Deepwater Horizon are fresh evidence the Bush-Cheney corporate culture continues in some federal agencies charged with overseeing industry. President Obama needs to change that culture fast.
Formal investigations are underway, but it appears that lax federal oversight and enforcement, combined with corporate corner-cutting and greed, are implicated in both of the energy industry tragedies — the worst coal mine disaster in 40 years and the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Massey Energy’s mine and BP’s drilling ship in the Gulf were subject to federal oversight. In both cases, oversight failed.
The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report
In April 2010 Chevron released its 2009 Annual Report. It would not take long for the cover design – Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico ultra-deepwater drillship, the Discoverer Clear Leader – to seem a terribly poor choice.
Just days prior to publication, 18,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from a Chevron operated pipeline in the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Louisiana.
A far worse disaster struck less than two weeks later. The largest blowout of an oil and gas well in the Gulf of Mexico in 30 years killed eleven people and saturated the surrounding areas in a blanket of oily destruction. The rig was owned and operated by Transocean, the same company with which Chevron has a five-year contract to operate the Discoverer Clear Leader, among other Chevron offshore rigs.
U.S. launches criminal probe of BP spill
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
Holder would not specify which companies or individuals might be the targets of the probe, saying he did not “want to cast aspersions” while investigators come to their conclusions.
He said federal clean air and pollution laws give him the power to open the investigations, which he added had been going on for “some weeks.”
Science Diversity Carnival Coming Soon. Submit Your Posts!
The Diversity in Science Carnival will be hosted at Quiche Moraine. Today is the submission deadline, but I’m sure posts submitted tomorrow (the 26th) will also be considered.
Here is the theme:
We are inviting all posts that challenge pre-conceptions and mis-conceptions of who scientists/engineers are, what they look like, how they behave, what they do, etc. A cross-disciplinary examination of this issue is encouraged and posts about everything from the merging of art and science or science and faith, to posts that highlight social life to how people from well-represented groups are strong advocates of diversity initiatives.
