Posts Tagged: dispersants

If you can’t trust the government . . .

By Ned Hodgman | Aug 17 2010 at 08:57 | Your take

When the people whose very livelihood depends on the government say they don’t trust the government, we’ve got a lot to worry about. David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin report in the Washington Post that Gulf Coast shrimp fishermen, told by the Obama administration that they can start shrimping today and that their catch is safe, are wary of fishing again in spite of government reassurances. (more…)

Topics: Food & Drug Administration, Free Agency, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY)
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Another ‘BP Squad’ should investigate dispersants

By Cathryn Poff | Jul 29 2010 at 14:57 | Your take

The Obama administration has deployed the ‘BP Squad’ of federal investigators to the Gulf to probe whether there was any wrongdoing on the part of government regulators or private companies related to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig.

As Peter Henning points out in The New York Times, the criminal probe focuses mostly on (more…)

Topics: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Coast Guard, Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of Justice, Dept. of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, Free Agency, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY), Minerals Management Service, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration, Regulation
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