The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.
A roll call of the 28 Democrats who voted with House Republicans in favor of a scheme to encourage dangerous, dirty and rushed offshore oil drilling platforms, increasing the risk of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon calamity.
Rick Crawford wants more offshore drilling, faster, farther, deeper, without restraint, regardless of the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ed Markey accuses Senate Republicans of blocking the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling from effectively doing its work.
Roger Wicker and David Vitter don’t want BP or any other offshore drilling companies to be held fully responsible. That’s why, last week, Wicker and Vitter introduced S. 3934.
In Wisconsin’s 2nd district, both Republican candidates for Congress seem content to paper over serious problems with the environment and energy policy.
If a member of Congress from New Jersey can respond quickly to a new offshore drilling accident off Louisiana’s shores, why are Louisiana’s representatives in Washington D.C. so slow to respond?
Although they’re generally not inclined to support many progressive causes, these politicians may be motivated by their state’s long coastline, and by voter sentiment in Florida, which is strongly against the expansion of offshore drilling.
It’s absurd for Chaffetz to assert that the Clean Act’s extension of the current Land and Water Conservation Fund.
The real choice that we face is a choice between jobs that create a cleaner, more sustainable economy, and jobs that maintain the dangerous, dirty economy of the past.
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