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What images will history books show decades from now?
So the question everyone is asking is: If you can smell the oil, is it toxic? The answer (unfortunately) is: "it depends".
Talking about the Gulf oil disaster last week, Obama said, "We will get it done." Wow. Sounds good. The question is, when will the president's actions match his words?
This week, governments from all regions of the world will meet in Busan, Republic of Korea, to decide on whether to establish a new Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
We must redouble our efforts for energy that will not spill into the oceans or threaten human health. We must succeed so that the next World Oceans Day becomes a day for celebration.
Everything that has happened recently couldn't make it clearer. We have got to start weaning ourselves off fossil fuels.
Despite the odds, despite the long road ahead, I'm more confident than ever that President Obama is right: "we will get it done." Negotiators in Bonn just need to feel that sense of momentum (and outrage) here in the U.S.
The Gulf gusher bears the simple lesson that technologies that require liability limits will rapidly exceed them, and must not be deployed.
Setting another high standard for crude behavior in the oil business is Chevron. Who would have guessed that Chevron would find a sympathetic ear in U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan?
If Antanas Mockus of Columbia is elected, he will be the first Green president in the world.
Already tarballs have shown up at Pensacola, an hour west of here, and just yesterday at Navarre Beach, on the other side of Fort Walton and Destin, only 30 miles distant.
On June 26, hundreds of beaches across the country will be host to local residents joining hands in their commitment to a transition to clean energy. This marks the most widespread day of action since the rig first exploded.
Does anyone of my generation belong on commencement podiums this year? I reflected on the tragedy in the Gulf and offered up three of my generation's blunders as examples to be avoided.
Coral reefs are at risk as the oceans warm up, plastic bottles are choking sea life, and overfishing is threatening species. World Oceans Day is an opportunity to celebrate what the oceans give us.
BP's corporate arrogance is made out of cash. It can and has bought its way out of trouble repeatedly, and when need be, even bought governments.
Any costs above the $75 million are covered by the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
Is it possible that the Obama Administration will capitulate to a proposed plan that permits Japan, Norway, and Iceland to resume commercial whaling? As unlikely as it sounds, the answer is yes.
Nancy loved the ocean, so when she died from breast cancer at the age of 43 we had a memorial service at her favorite beach on the Marin California headlands. Five years later I returned to Rodeo Beach, where oil had come ashore.
At last, there is a visible environmental crisis caused by our obsession with oil-based energy. It is impossible to dismiss or to spin. This time there aren't going to be any "oil spill deniers."
Gina Solomon, 2010.06.08
