“It is up to us to bring them to justice. They’ve got an awfully lot of money. And time is awfully short. But there are people all over the world ready to fight with us.”read more

“Without a doubt this is a very serious conflict of interest,” says Public Citizen.read more

BP has spent a lot of money selling the idea that all is back to normal in the Gulf. But that's simply not the case.read more

The BP blowout and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are the same story. The plot is oil, and the arc of the story moves from our complicity to our complacency.read more

There are some industrial products and processes that are so inherently dangerous they cannot be made safe through technological innovations or regulatory reforms and simply need to be discontinued.read more

We are witnessing the failure of an entire system, rather than of one operator.read more

Now that the BP oil well has been plugged, it’s more urgent than ever to address the Gulf Coast “dead zone.”read more

The oil industry spills again, this time in Michigan. What’s so striking is how formulaic the oil spill story has become.read more

Environmental catastrophe is an inevitable outcome when energy companies are operating at the very edge of technological capacity.read more

Do we have a hope of getting off oil? It's tough, but not impossible.read more

Now is the time to pass a comprehensive climate and clean energy bill.read more

Not only by making BP pay, but by damning the pro-corporate philosophy that brought about this crisis, Obama showed real leadership.read more

No, it was not a chastened group at the hearings. They came out for even more offshore oil drilling.read more