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Oil Spills

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Sen. Patty Murray and Rest of Failed Supercommittee Blame Everyone But Themselves

    ​It's both unfair and inaccurate to call the 12 members of the Congressional Supercommittee "total failures." They're not total failures. In fact, they are succeeding quite admirably in one regard.

  • Calendar

    May 11, 2011

    YACHT

    ​It's both unfair and inaccurate to call the 12 members of the Congressional Supercommittee "total failures." They're not total failures. In fact, they are succeeding quite admirably in one regard.

  • Calendar

    May 11, 2011

    LAKE

    ​It's both unfair and inaccurate to call the 12 members of the Congressional Supercommittee "total failures." They're not total failures. In fact, they are succeeding quite admirably in one regard.

  • Music

    May 11, 2011

    The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

    From Tomten to Shelby Earl.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Class Action Lawyers Aren't Dead Yet, Says Seattle Lawyer Representing BP Oil Spill Victims

    ​Is the age of the class action lawyer over? That's one suggestion from a Sunday New York Times Magazine piece on the litigation feeding frenzy sparked by the BP Gulf oil spill. While the lawyers have been jostling for position and clients, there's been an effort to marginalize the members of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Another World Debacle? Time For Another Hoot!

    Laura MusselmanDuff McKagan's column runs every Monday and Thursday on Reverb. Hootenanny For A Healthy Gulf is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Moore Theatre. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show.​About six months ago, a few weeks after the earthquake in Haiti, STG hauncho Debra Heesch an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Aw, Shucks: In Wake of BP Spill, Oysters May Be Off Marcela's Menu

    ​In case the endless photos of pelicans plastered in brown muck have escaped your attention, the BP oil spill hasn't been great for living things on the Gulf Coast. But now it's threatening the quality of life in Seattle too. No, we're not talking about oil drifting into Puget Sound. We mean ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 14, 2010

    Neil Young

    ​In case the endless photos of pelicans plastered in brown muck have escaped your attention, the BP oil spill hasn't been great for living things on the Gulf Coast. But now it's threatening the quality of life in Seattle too. No, we're not talking about oil drifting into Puget Sound. We mean ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 14, 2010

    Adam Lambert

    ​In case the endless photos of pelicans plastered in brown muck have escaped your attention, the BP oil spill hasn't been great for living things on the Gulf Coast. But now it's threatening the quality of life in Seattle too. No, we're not talking about oil drifting into Puget Sound. We mean ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    The BP Board Game That Predicted the Future

    ​For some reason, in 1970 energy company British Petroleum thought that it could replicate the thrills and dangers of offshore oil extraction with a piece of cardboard and some six-sided dice. So forty years before the Gulf oil spill that would make it infamous, BP produced a board game where ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Eness Rhymes With...a Character in the Dukes of Hazzard

    Check out this delicious profiterole!​One of the problems with Eness is that they pronounce it like "penis," or like the name of that one deputy from the Dukes of Hazzard. When I called for a reservation, that's how the guy said it. I should've known it was a bad omen. We started with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    BP Oil Spill: Who Will Mourn the Pancake Fish?

    Photo courtesy LSU, via CNNOh, ain't you a pretty little fella...​It seems that every journalist in the world is currently racing around the Gulf, desperately trying to snap pictures or shoot video of hard-working volunteers scrubbing BP oil off of nature's cutest critters. Show me some good-h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    BP's Gulf Oil Spill Superimposed Over Seattle (Updated)

    ​Last month, when everyone thought that BP's Gulf oil spill was just a minor terrible disaster, we published a post about what the slick might look like superimposed over Seattle. Since then, the original estimates about how much crude is being pumped into the sea have gone up by, say, a facto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    In Light of Louisiana Spill, Will Dino Rossi Come Out Against His Big Oil Donors?

    FacebookWill Rossi go with the greens on offshore drilling, potentially pissing off big donors?​In announcing his campaign yesterday, Senate-hopeful Dino Rossi didn't talk about the Louisiana oil spill, which we learned today has surpassed the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in size. Nor does he of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    BP's Gulf Oil Spill Superimposed Over Seattle

    ​ Hey Bainbridge Islanders, bet you thought that by putting the bay between yourself and the big city you were keeping your kids safe from drugs, aggressive panhandlers and ecosystem-destroying oil spills, didn'tcha? How's it feel to be wrong? Does it feel like being covered in sticky, can't- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Gulf Oil Spill Miscalculations Came From Seattle Scientists

    Sorry little guy, things are gonna get much worse before they get better.​It's probably not easy to calculate exactly how much oil is being spewed when the geyser is hundreds of feet below the water's surface. But it's even harder when you rush and use the wrong formula. Conventional wisdom h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Maria Cantwell, Grilling BP Exec, Shows How to Stick It to the Fat Cats

    Senator Maria Cantwell put on one of her best political performances to date yesterday as she grilled BP president and chair Lamar McCay in a Senate committee hearing about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a Senate committee hearing. With her cool demeanor and sharp questions, noted by the Huffing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Exxon Valdez Reporter On Gulf Oil Spill: Expect Redneck-to-Environmentalist Conversion

    Lafayette's newest Sierra Club member.​As an environmental reporter for the Seattle Times, William Dietrich was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Now, more than two decades later, he's predicting how things will play out in the years follo ... More >>

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