photo via flickr BP’s stock prices are tanking and its reputation is shot, but that’s not stopping the oil giant from trying to repair its loses through public relations. Earlier this week, it announced that it would bring in Dick Cheney’s former press secretary Anne Womack-Kolton , and now BP CEO Tony Hayward is starring new in TV ads designed to show contrition for the worst oil gusher in US history. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Ups Its PR Response, Goes On TV With Ads

photo: Andy Zeigert via flickr You’ve probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast the leak out of existence. Thankfully, according to a New York Times report, the US government has no plans to act on what one senior official described as a “crazy” plan:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher

Image: Twitter, @SarahPalinUSA Palin’s Twisted Logic You have to give her that, it takes guts to seriously pretend that the BP oil spill tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico is evidence that “drill, baby, drill” was a more environmentally-friendly policy. Let’s start with the hypocrisy: Never at any time before the BP oil spill did the “drill, baby, drill” crowd advocate stopping offshore drilling and replacing it with onshore drilling…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sarah Palin Defends "Drill, Baby, Drill" on Twitter

Photo via AndyRob Despite the overall impression that England is a rainy place, there are areas in with drought is taking its toll. The country already imports around two-thirds of its water in the form of products , but it may one day start importing water more directly from its neighbor to the north – at least, that’s the possibility according to Mike Cantlay, the convenor of Loch Lomond national park and chairman of the tourism ag… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scotland Considers Shipping Water to Drought-Stricken England

The video above, courtesy TckTckTck , explains one of the under-the-radar issues that was present all through the COP15 talks and now is re-emerging at the Bonn climate talks. In short, “A handful of developed nations like Japan, Australia and Germany are playing all… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rich Nations Want Huge Logging Loophole, While Telling Poor to Reduce Emissions From Deforestation (Video)

Photo via NY Daily News The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was passed after the Exxon-Valdez to hold oil companies responsible for their spills. One of the main provisions of the bill was that it held oil companies liable for funding the cleanup of their messes — but only up to $75 million dollars worth. It’s questionable enough whether that sum was adequate to pay for the cleanup in Prince William Sound (there are still tons of oil lingering on the beaches there , remember). But that wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Majority of Americans Think Oil Companies Should Pay More for Oil Spills

The Daily Show was unfortunately on hiatus during the last couple weeks of the BP Gulf oil spill, leaving a void where negligent companies should be lampooned and scathing satire delivered. But fear not, everyone! The spill is still continuing unabated , more than 40 days after it began, and there looks to be no end in sight — which means plenty more time for BP Gulf spill satire! Hell, we could be laughing until Christmas, according to some reports, since that’s how long experts say it might ta… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Jon Stewart Blasts BP for Having 760 Pre-Spill Safety Violations (Video)

photo: Martin Pettitt via flickr Developing offshore wind farms on the Great Lakes has been touted as an overlooked resource in a number of studies and indeed a few projects are in the planning stages. Which, seemingly on cue, has aroused opposition to them on the usual grounds, as the Detroit News reports:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farms Already Face NIMBY Opposition, Just Like Those in Saltwater

BP has over 9 Billion US dollars in defense supply contracts. Just think about the implications of the Government taking over BP like they did GM (which would never happen anyway because BP is a Crown company, but as a thought experiment). Data and graphics are from USASpending.gov . Has the Pentagon had any say in how the Gulf of BP incident has been managed? Inquir… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Top Five Federal Agencies Awarding Contracts To BP

Seascape from Virginia Beach VA. Image credit: Destination360.com It’s a third of a continent away but somehow the continuous gusher the Gulf of Mexico – rebranded lately as the ‘ Gulf of BP ‘ – has both Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates in Maryland whistling lively new political tunes. According to the Baltimore Sun , Democratic Governor “…O’Malley has grown steadily … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spill In ‘Gulf Of BP’ Affecting Maryland Gubernatorial Politics: Where Next?