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Oil Spills

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    April 12, 2012

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  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Tom Strickland exits Interior, chased by big bucks

    Tom Strickland.​The news that "lobbyist lawyer" Tom Strickland, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's chief of staff for a hectic two years, is now taking a job with British Petroleum's law firm in its battles with his former boss over the Deepwater Horizon mess made a big splash in the Denver Post ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Ken Salazar's salary at center of David Vitter ethics complaint, CREW tells Keith Olbermann

    Ken Salazar.​During last night's sophomore edition of Countdown on Current TV, Keith Olbermann featured an extended segment about Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filing an ethics complaint against Louisiana Senator David Vitter. But the man in the middle of the cont ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    4/20: A day that will really live in infamy

    Deepwater Horizon.​Does any other day carry as heavy a load as April 20? The day's fate was sealed in 1889, when Adolf Hitler was born in a small village in Austria. In the early '70s, April 20 also became an underground stoner holiday, now so aboveground that it's celebrated across the countr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    Ken Salazar gets roasted by Michelle Malkin as a political turkey

    Ken Salazar, loathsome cowboy?​When Michelle Malkin moved to Colorado, Ken Salazar still represented this state in the U.S. Senate. But then Salazar left what would have been a safe seat (judging from Michael Bennet's victory over Ken Buck) to become Barack Obama's Secretary of the Interior -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    John Elway for Senate? Pollsters tested that two years ago

    John Elway.​The playbook in which John Elway makes a run for Colorado governor may not be mythical. That's according to one person who commented on yesterday's "John Elways for Governor?" post. The claim: a polling firm actually asked about that possibility a few weeks ago.

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    John Salazar: Land swap aids big donor

    John Salazar.​While Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been enduring a summer of media broiling over everything from the BP oil spill to federal wild-horse roundups, his brother John has been coolly and quietly toodling toward re-election and a fourth term in Congress. But now, the Oth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Tonight: Drink beer to help the Gulf Coast Spill Relief Fund

    A Flickr photo. ​So that oil spill in the Gulf -- bummer, right? And it's still spewing, and apparently doesn't intent to stop anytime soon. We might be landlocked here in this state, but that doesn't mean no one here cares about the BP disaster; to prove it, Bull & Bush Pub & Brewery, 4700 Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    British Petroleum fined by feds in Colorado case -- three years later

    Tony Hayward.​Under fire for its lax supervision of British Petroleum and other offshore drillers, the embattled federal agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service has fined BP $5.2 million for filing "false, inaccurate, or misleading" reports about its energy production in Color ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Ken Salazar getting tough with BP: Too little too late?

    New MMS head Michael Bromwich.​The naming of a former prosecutor to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, coupled with President Barack Obama's lackluster but occasionally pugnacious speech about making British Petroleum "pay" for the oil-slick disaster in the Gulf, suggests th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Big Oil slime responsible for slick Capitol Hill Apartment design: Kenny Be's Sign Language

    Photo by Kenny BeClassic gas station graphics will keep residents pumped in good times and bad.​ The Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is currently called a "disaster," but that will change with time. Because Americans love petroleum more than life itself, they will no do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Salazar finds oil spilling from Gulf into Colorado

    ​The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there's "oil for miles and miles," Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Salazar still in hot seat -- but with lots of company

    "Bring me the head of Tony Heyward." ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there's increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the falte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    BP spill flow much worse than we estimated, says United States Geological Survey director

    Marcia McNutt calls the spill a "significant environmental disaster." ​It's official: Even with the corrective measures British Petroleum is undertaking to try to contain the oil leak flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the massive spill has been flowing at a rate two to four times greater than o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Ken Salazar fumes, hair booms nixed: Gulf spill update

    Department of the InteriorSituation hairy: The Deepwater Horizon rig, before it sank. ​As oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to stain shorelines along the Gulf Coast, beauticians across the nation are learning that one of the more feel-good (and dubious) solutions proposed in recen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Ken Salazar's shakeup at Interior: Where will it all end?

    There's a new sheriff -- and a lot of new acronyms -- in town.​In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil slick disaster, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is barreling ahead in his efforts to reform the embattled Minerals Management Service, the once-obscure agency responsible for overseein ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Ken Salazar: Lessons on the Gulf spill from Denver's own "toxic horror"

    Photo by Alan PrendergastWhite-tailed deer cross a road at the Rocky Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been spending a lot of time on the Gulf Coast lately, dealing with the noxious plumes (environmental and political) spewing from the Deepwater Horiz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Ken Salazar taps "recovery czar" Chris Henderson to fix MMS

    The New RepublicDrill, baby, drill: Just what does additional offshore drilling add to the mix?​In the wake of the worst American offshore oil disaster in decades, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is scrambling on several fronts to address the perception that his administration has been m ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    Ken Salazar is spinning the Deepwater Horizon debacle

    The New RepublicDrill, baby, drill: Just what does additional offshore drilling add to the mix?​In the wake of the worst American offshore oil disaster in decades, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is scrambling on several fronts to address the perception that his administration has been m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Ken Salazar: Oil spill debacle sparks creation of Yet Another Government Agency

    "All together now: BLM, FWS, MMS... and now YAGA!"​In the wake of the offshore rig explosion and massive oil spill threatening the Gulf Coast, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced a major shakeup of the Minerals Management Service, the agency responsible for overseeing drilling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Michael Brown on White House ripping him over Obama oil-spill comments on Fox News

    Brownie with Bushie.​Earlier this week, we told you about a debate between former FEMA head turned KOA talk-show host Michael Brown and David Sirota, the AM 760 morning guy, over comments Brown had made to Fox News' Neil Cavuto about the Obama administration's response to the oil spill off the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Ken Salazar's role in BP disaster: More spin than reform?

    Department of the InteriorThe explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig still hasn't been explained.​The finger-pointing over the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast is spreading almost as fast as the spill itself. While critics on the right chortle over Department of the Interior c ... More >>

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