Guatemala Volcano Creates Calamity

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2010 It has been a crazy year for Mother Nature. A volcano in southern Guatemala has erupted, killing one person and covering the capital city with ash as President Alvaro Colom declared the country to be in a "state of calamity." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BP Accused of Hiring Temps for Obama Visit

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2010 A parish official in coastal Louisiana has publicly accused BP of busing in cleanup workers to be present only for President Obama's visit on Friday. BP rejects the accusation, claiming no out-of-the-ordinary temporary hiring had taken place. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Goes Gulfing

Staff / Truthdig May 28, 2010 Following a news conference Thursday in which he voiced resolve and regret over the way the Gulf oil spill has been handled, President Barack Obama visited the Louisiana coast on Friday to see the environmental devastation firsthand and to survey efforts to plug the Deepwater Horizon undersea gusher. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Defending Our Natural Resources From Presidents and Profits

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig May 28, 2010 Barack Obama is, in many admirable ways, our most progressive president in decades. But as an environmentalist, let's face it, he's no Richard Nixon. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Gulf Spill Worst in U.S. History

Staff / Truthdig May 28, 2010 By the most conservative estimate, BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster has already spilled nearly twice as much oil as the Exxon Valdez. The impact of the 1989 environmental and commercial catastrophe is still being felt in Alaska more than 20 years later. The gulf spill could already be five times as big as Valdez. Watch live footage of the effort to stop the undersea gusher after the jump. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama: This Whole Oil Spill Situation Is Really Bad, People

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2010 OK, so he actually called it an "unparalleled disaster," but you get the idea: President Barack Obama took a moment Thursday morning to announce that the federal government had been on British Petroleum's gulf oil spill from the very start and to declare unequivocally (continued) . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

When Oil and Hurricane Mix

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2010 What happens when you mix a massive oil spill with a hurricane? When Obama finally decides to negotiate with the Taliban, what will he ask for? And how did Jane Austen become such a big celebrity? Answers to these and other vexing questions after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

BP Goes In for the Top Kill

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2010 The news that British Petroleum began its latest attempt to contain the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill Wednesday afternoon with the "top kill" stopgap strategy would be more heartening if it didn't come so late in the game -- and if there was more of a guarantee that it would do the job. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

EPA Weighs Sanctions Against BP

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica May 25, 2010 Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts, a move that would ultimately cost the company billions in revenue and could end its drilling in federally controlled oil fields.Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

I Came, I Saw

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British Petroleum — Here to Help You

Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons May 25, 2010 Dig deeper

Salazar: ‘All-Stars’ Will ‘Kill This Well’

Staff / Truthdig May 25, 2010 The interior secretary, defending the government's response to the ocean of oil building up in the Gulf of Mexico, says the U.S. has assembled "a team of all-stars that are now leading an Apollo 13 type effort" to kill the well and contain the disaster. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )