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When does 'Mostly Gone' actually mean, 'A LOT is still There'?
The oil has gone? Tell that to Gulf coast residentsBy Rupert Cornwell, independent.co.uk -- 6 August 2010 And though only a quarter of the 4.9m barrels reckoned to have leaked is still unaccounted,...
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Scientists say: The Oil is NOT Gone -- even if our Attention spans are
How did five million barrels of oil simply disappear?Press Secretary Robert Gibbs points to a pie chart on the BP oil spill during the Daily White House Press Briefing, Washington, DC. AFP/ Getty...
View Article'No Drama Obama' Needs a Strong Second Act
. If President Obama continues to pandering to the conservatives, and continues a slide into compromise that dilutes necessary social justice legislation instead of trusting the millions who voted for...
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BP's Oil is NOT on the Surface -- it's on the Sea Floor
Two weeks ago we were being told the majority of the Oil Spilled was "mostly" gone ...How did five million barrels of oil simply disappear?Press Secretary Robert Gibbs points to a pie chart on the BP...
View ArticleDeath of a Hoax: Moratorium Job Losses Prove Non-existent
This post originally appeared here— with a graphic.The hoax perpetrated on south Louisiana and the nation — that the six-month moratorium on deep water drilling would wreck our economy and send...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - Justice and Interior Bear Down on BP - BP Catastrophe...
You are in the current Gulf Watchers BP Catastrophe - AUV #469. ROV #468 is here.Bookmark this link to find the latest Gulf Watchers diaries.Follow the Gulf Watchers tag on DK4 by going here and...
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NV-3: Voter confusion
Just back from Las Vegas, where I snapped some gorgeous shots of Red Rock Canyon. I also snapped this:Where to begin? Maybe with: Does this person even KNOW what Obama has been saying before cheerfully...
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One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three ... Get somewhere Safe!
I live in a seismic zone (the Pacific NW), so I "think about" Earthquake Events occasionally.Knowing how to react, when the building you're in, when itself "starts to react" -- could save your...
View ArticleIndians 101: The Bureau of Indian Affairs
In discussions about American Indians, one of the terms which often comes up is the BIA or Bureau of Indian Affairs. Officially the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ mission is to enhance the quality of life,...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Wednesday - BOP Autopsy FAIL & Containment System FAIL - BP...
Topics: Deeply flawed BOP autopsy, More Bad News: BOEMRE Halts Floating Facility Startup Due to Equipment Failure, Interior Department will seek continual improvements in blowout preventers, BP emails...
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Wolves, shoot-on-sight in Wyoming
Grey Wolf"It's essentially turning Wyoming into a free-fire wolf-kill zone outside of national parks and a few national forests," Wetzler said of the state plan. "That's a huge problem for the...
View ArticleFormer Clinton and Bush Cabinet Members, Now Oil and Gas Lobbyists, Expect...
The Tar Sands Blockade of TransCanada Corporation’s “Keystone XL South” continues in Texas, but former members of the Clinton and George W. Bush cabinets believe the northern half will soon be...
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It Wasn’t Nice To Drown A Lady! (Revisiting The Glen Canyon-Lake Powell...
Note: This week’s diary continues and concludes the series. (Previous diaries were posted on 12/8, 12/22 and 12/29 and can be perused by clicking on my profile.)Introduction: For many years, the Glen...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Tuesday - No regulator testimony against BP at trial - BP...
Topics: Second week of BP oil spill trial focuses on gross negligence, Engineer who did forensic analysis of blowout preventer continues testimony in BP Gulf oil spill trial, Oil Executives, Experts...
View ArticleObama Admin. Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid Disclosure...
On May 16, the Obama Interior Department announced its long-awaited rules governing hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on federal lands.As part of its 171-page document of rules, the U.S. Bureau of Land...
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Action Diary: Scientists Call for Protection of the Wolf
Research Gray Wolf 832F, RIPACTION This is an update to my June 11th Wolves: "Mission Accomplished" diary. It was too early to post the Government Comment link on this issue. Thanks to Patriot Daily...
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Thirteen photos that will make you fall in love with America all over again
The U.S. Department of the Interior, the agency in charge of the nation's national parks and monuments, has a wonderfully rich mine of gorgeous photographs on its Instagram page, highlighting how...
View ArticleUS Dept. of Interior Calls BS on State Dept.'s Keystone XL Impact Report
From The Guardian:The US Department of the Interior has criticised as "inaccurate" the State Department's draft conclusions that the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline on wildlife would be temporary,...
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Good government and capitalism meet near Las Vegas
Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, Mojave Desert, CALas Vegas, perhaps the ultimate symbol of capitalism, ironically is bookended by two huge examples of business/government partnership. The...
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Sherman, set the WABAC machine to ...
EVIL public education! Boo! Hiss! Waste of money. Teachers with their cushy nine-month jobs riding the gravy train on our dime. How dare they!Republican governor after Republican governor wants to...
View ArticlePalin (Inadvertently) Proposes To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, Submarines And...
Sarah Palin says that she should be the Secretary of Energy and that in that capacity she would eliminate the Department of Energy. Among the many things she is unaware of is that the largest part of...
View ArticleCoalition urges Interior Secretary to reject Delta Tunnels
The Environmental Water Caucus, a coalition including the California Sportfishing Protection Aliance (CSPA) and other fishing groups, environmental organizations, businesses and the Winnemem Wintu...
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Crowdsourcing the Dream Progressive Cabinet
A great deal of the next President’s policies will be determined by the nominees confirmed for the various cabinet posts. Recently, I was “treated” to a “Dream Team” list as created by a tea partier....
View ArticleInterior Dep't: Zinke In, McMorris Rodgers Out
Last week it was reported reported that Donald Trump was slated to offer the post as Secretary of the Interior to Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers.We never got any detailed confirmation of that...
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A letter to the Trump official who instructed a Native woman to “be nice”
On Monday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke visited Bears Ears National Monument, where he showed surprising disrespect towards an indigenous woman, an organizer from the non-profit PANDOS, who was trying...
View ArticleSave America the Beautiful - National Parks Under Attack!
With so many Right-Wing attacks on so many fronts, it’s hard to focus and choose what battle to fight next. But this week, I’m working on saving our National Parks and Monuments.I live in California,...
View ArticleSave America the Beautiful - Speak Up for Our National Parks
My father was an enthusiastic nature photographer, and I can think of no better way to honor his memory on this Father’s Day than to fight to save the natural beauty he so loved.I posted a diary...
View ArticleDemocratic senators want a probe into Trump administrations reassignments of...
On Wednesday, climate scientist Joel Clement blew the whistle on the Trump administration’s dubious reassignment of him in a Washington Post op-ed. Clement’s claim is that he was reassigned after...
View ArticlePutting Public Lands Back Where They Belong-- In Industry’s Hands
After years suffocating under erroneous and burdensome government regulation, it is evident that true energy dominance is now here. In late August, Secretary Zinke and industry’s hard work payed off...
View ArticleWalruses face 'death sentence' as Trump administration fails to list them as...
In yet another move to erase President Obama’s legacy, Trump has decided to reverse protections to keep the Pacific Walrus from going extinct. This grisly proclamation was posted 10-5-17 on the Fish...
View Article"Dinosaur" -- original song dedicated to planet-wreckers Ryan Zinke and Scott...
Dinosaur is dedicated to Ryan Zinke and Scott Pruitt, Trump administration heads of the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency, respectively. Both men are doing their small...
View ArticleCartoon: Teddy's back!
xVimeo VideoTeddy Roosevelt is back, learning what has become of his Republican Party. When President Trump hacked down the size of two national monuments and has his eyes on others, Roosevelt must...
View ArticleInterior Sec. flew a National Park director to D.C. to berate, warn not to...
Last month, the social media folks at California’s Joshua Tree National park sent out a tweet (seen below) noting that 97% of the world’s climate scientists “agree that human activity is the driving...
View ArticleThanks to Trump, forget about olive oil on your shrimp. How about some nice...
Anybody remember the "Deepwater Horizon?" You should, they made a movie about it and everything. The oil drilling rig disaster killed 11 workers and dumped millions of barrels of crude oil into the...
View ArticleTrump's Interior Department chief keeps telling employees that he doesn't...
When you’re the head of the Interior Department in our country you have an important job in shaping how our national and federal lands and resources are managed. When white supremacist in chief Donald...
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Action Items --- to strengthen the Endangered Species Act's rules
Do you hold joyful memories of the exhilaration you and that mountain yellow-legged frog in California shared or are you recalling that ecologically and economically important Illinois...
View ArticleUnder Trump, science funding is reviewed by Secretary of the Interior's high...
This administration’s contempt for science is well-known. What isn’t as well-known is just how deeply ingrained that contempt has become, as it permeates through all our federal agencies.Prominent US...
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urgent action by Monday-- Defend quintessential First Amendment sites in DC –...
brief w/ links to genuine .gov sites for more info: The Trump administration is proposing to dramatically limit the right to demonstrate near the White House and on the National Mall. The proposed...
View ArticleOh noz! Ryan Zinke has contracted the dreaded "logic amnesia" from his boss!
Just a quick click-n-fo. Ryan Zinke, the underwhelming Secretary of the Interior, has had a case referred by the Inspector General of his department to the FBI for criminal investigation. The funny...
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Department of Interior under Zinke is a 'monumental disaster' for the...
The Trump Administration’s transformation of huge, publicly-funded federal agencies—such as the Department of the Interior—into crass looting vehicles for private gas, mining and oil interests has led...
View ArticleCommittee Chairs Raúl Grijalva and Jared Huffman Request Documents on...
A day after the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 14-6 to move the nomination of Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to a floor vote, Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M....
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Albuquerque Journal - Against the American Wild Horse
Lobbying Against the PeopleThe Albuquerque Journal has started what appears to be a campaign against the New Mexico Wild Horse State Park.The newspaper has attempted to slam Governor Richardson for...
View ArticleTribal Members and Youth Speak Out on Delta Tunnel: "Shut It Down!"
Over 200 people including members of at least seven California Indian Tribal nations, along with some recreational anglers and environmentalists, marched on the meeting room of the Sheraton Inn in...
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Dept of Interior to "disestablish" Wampanoag Reservation [UPDATED]
Updated: see the bottom, after the footnotes and before comments!The Trump Administration’s corruption of government, the rule of law, and the active undermining of our nation — wrapped in cruelty,...
View ArticleGrijalva's hope for Haaland starts with not having Interior secretary 'there...
When President Joe Biden tapped Rep. Deb Haaland to become the first Native American head of the Department of the Interior, which would also make her the first Native American Cabinet secretary, she...
View ArticleDaily Kos amasses over 260,000 signatures in support of Deb Haaland for...
Today, Daily Kos delivered over 260,000 signatures in support of Rep. Deb Haaland as the Senate is about to begin hearings to confirm her as the new secretary of the Department of the Interior under...
View ArticleCartoon: Thanksgiving With Little Suzie Newsykins
xVimeo Video(Remember, you can help support my work over on Patreon — where you’ll find behind-the-scenes goodies like prints and exclusive videos.)As bad as many things are, Little Suzie Newsykins...
View ArticleICYMI: Veterans, Gold Star Families can get a lifetime pass to Public Lands!
From the Department of the Interior, 11/8/2022WASHINGTON— Today, the Biden-Harris administration announced that starting on Veterans Day (Nov. 11), veterans of the U.S. Armed Services and Gold Star...
View ArticleTRUMP CHARGED WITH 34 FELONIES, SURRENDERS IN NY; ACCOUNTABILITY BEGINS:...
Special coverage with guests Heather Digby Parton of Salon, ‘Driftglass’ of Pro Left Podcast...At long last. Criminal accountability for a U.S. President finally begins on today's BradCast Special...
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President Biden Saved the State of Illinois! Boosting Biden Day 58
Most of these Boosting Biden posts deal with ways that Joe Biden has helped all Americans. But Biden has also done a lot of targeted things that only local folks know about. Honestly, too often local...
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