Halliburton has now admitted that it had skipped important safety tests when developing the cement that would seal the BP Macondo well that led to this year’s catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Halliburton’s acknowledgement of error follows findings by a presidential commission on the oil spill that Halliburton knew the seal was Read More
If the right-wing chorus insists that the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is “Obama’s Katrina,” then let us hope the president will make the most of that slogan. The comparison between the utter failure of the Bush administration and the missteps and errors of the Obama White House is fundamentally Read More
The Times‘ managing editor-turned-digital mastermind Jill Abramson filed a piece, datelined Port Sulphur, La., for today’s paper about fishermen who have been directly affected by the oil spill.
In print, Ms. Abramson’s piece is embedded within a longer article about the spill’s effect on BP stock.
Ms. Abramson, who until the beginning Read More
The more we learn about the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the more we ought to question the basic assumptions that led us here. Like the explosion of the housing bubble that ruptured the world economy, this human and environmental tragedy resulted from a system that encourages reckless profiteering Read More
