Rex Tillerson: Unprepared. Unqualified. Unacceptable.
Three words sum up Rex Tillerson’s performance yesterday in his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State: Unprepared. Unqualified. Unacceptable
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New Evidence BP’s Spill Dispersant Caused Harm to Humans and Wildlife
In the desperately dark days following BP’s Deepwater Horizon accident in April 2010, one of the issues that I highlighted on this blog was the dangers of BP’s chemical Corexit, which the oil giant was using to disperse the oil.
Big Oil’s Front Groups Exposed
It has often been called the heart of public relations: but the third party technique is simple – it is putting your words in someone else’s mouth.
Sacrificing the Climate for Art’s Sake
The endorsement granted to Big Oil companies by preeminent arts institutions allows them to whitewash their image.
Food Versus Fuel Debate Intensifies in US
The highly-charged debate of food versus fuel is rising rapidly up the American political agenda, after the worst drought for 50 years in the US has inflicted huge damage on the country’s maize crop. The debate has now intensified with...
Welcome to the “Invertebrate Graveyard”
Do you remember when last August that the US government announced that seventy-five per cent of the oil from BP's Deepwater disaster had miraculously “disappeared”? This led to a plethora of press reports and blog posts that the ecological effects...
Spill panel slams White House; warns over Arctic drilling
Back at the height of the BP oil spill, President Obama asked a commission to find out “what worked and didn’t” in the government’s response to the disaster. Well the bad news for Obama is that much didn’t work, making...
BP: Boldness and Blunders with no Hand on the Brake
Uncertainty still surrounds the success of the replacement cap on the BP well today, with the company expressing cautious optimism that this second, tighter cap has worked. BP will now attempt a “well integrity test” and this means it will...
Use your pension against the tar sands
The start of an unusual mobilisation of pension fund members has been kicked off by the British organisation FairPensions to hold BP and Shell to account for their investment in the dirty Canadian tar sands. The idea is simple: individuals...
Obama off to Copenhagen, but is it too little too late?
President Obama has ended weeks of speculation by finally announcing that he is going to Copenhagen. For that he has to be congratulated. The fact that he is the first American President to attend the US climate meetings is also...