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I was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight, talking to guest host Thomas Roberts about the President's oil spill commission.  Have a look:Keith is back tomorrow night.  ...

A few days ago, CNN reported findings of a government research trip into the deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico, close to BP's Macondo well blowout.  The expedition, crewed by university scientists, found dead and dying coral in 4,000 feet of water southwest of the the wellsite.  Penn State University biologist Charles Fisher called the dead coral the "smoking gun", evidence of damage to deep sea life resulting from the millions of barrels of oil...

The change of control of the House of Representatives yesterday was not only a political loss for the Democrats; it changed the landscape in Washington and diminished the chance for meaningful progress on comprehensive energy policy any time soon.  With leaders like Mitch McConnell saying that the Republicans' single most important job for the next session is to make Barack Obama a one-term president, we can expect massive gridlock for the next two years, as...

Among much hoopla Thursday, the Presidential Oil Spill Commission released a letter from lawyer Fred Bartlit, Jr., saying that 3 of 4 tests that Halliburton conducted of the cement designed for BP's Macondo well were unstable.  They also published a report of tests performed by Chevron that all nine of their tests using Halliburton ingredients showed it as unstable.  One of Halliburton's tests run prior to the actual cement job showed that formulation to be...

The last few days have been busy after the spill commission finding about Halliburton's cement job.  Here is a video from Al Jazeera English where I talk about the report:...

David Swanson of OpEd News reviewed Disaster on the Horizon....

I was on Countdown tonight live in studio with Keith talking about the premature lifting of the deepwater moratorium and the release of my new book, Disaster on the Horizon.  Have a look:...

We have a Facebook page up for Disaster on the Horizon.  Have a look....

Today marks the six-month anniversary of the blowout of BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well in the Gulf of Mexico, now famously known as the Macondo well. The disaster, which cost the lives of 11 good men, also exposed the dangers and incalculable risks to our environment of drilling on the open ocean in thousands of feet of water. Up until the night of April 20, most Americans had no idea that we were even...

Late Friday, the first copies of my new book, Disaster on the Horizon, arrived.  The book will be released next Friday, October 22.  I'll post the book signing schedule shortly....