Environment

Chris Hayes Guest-Hosting “The Ed Show” This Week Chris Hayes Guest-Hosting “The Ed Show” This Week

The Nation's D.C. Editor guest-hosts MSNBC's The Ed Show starting tonight at 6PM. 

Jun 28, 2010 / Press Room

In Deep Water: A Way of Life in Peril In Deep Water: A Way of Life in Peril

In the two months since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, millions of gallons of oil have gushed out of BP's well into the water each day, slowly encroaching on the coastline. Fau...

Jun 24, 2010 / Avi Lewis

New Energy in DC?

New Energy in DC? New Energy in DC?

As he pushes climate and energy legislation, will Obama keep up the tough talk?

Jun 24, 2010 / The Editors

Who Will Pay to Fix Louisiana?

Who Will Pay to Fix Louisiana? Who Will Pay to Fix Louisiana?

Devastation wrought by the BP spill is in headlines daily. But decades of oil drilling in Louisiana have done far more indelible damage.

Jun 24, 2010 / Feature / Oliver Houck

A Hole in the World

A Hole in the World A Hole in the World

The BP disaster reveals the risks in imagining that we have complete command over nature.

Jun 24, 2010 / Feature / Naomi Klein

BP

BP BP

(Sung by Representative Joe Barton, to the tune of "Blue Moon")   BP, you've been so badly defamed— By shakedown artists so robbed, by petty bureaucrats blamed. BP, I'm sorry they've been so strict on These damages. You've been picked on, Without a case to convict on. But pay no mind to all these overreactions, For memories of this one more spill Will fade, like all your other infractions, And once again we'll shout, "Drill, baby, drill!" BP, you've been so badly defamed, The public's been so inflamed. BP, I'm truly ashamed.

Jun 24, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Reconsidering Deep-Sea Oil Drilling Reconsidering Deep-Sea Oil Drilling

America isn't the only country reassessing their deep-sea oil drilling. The Nation's Michael Klare speaks to Jeb Sharp of PRI's The World about the globe's major oil reserves and w...

Jun 24, 2010 / The World

The Coming Era of Energy Disasters The Coming Era of Energy Disasters

In our extreme energy era, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico isn't a one-shot disaster but an arrow pointing to a nightmarish future.

Jun 24, 2010 / Michael T. Klare

A Disaster That Could Change Everything A Disaster That Could Change Everything

Will the BP spill prove to be Judgment Day for the decades of growing corporate rule over government?

Jun 24, 2010 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy

BP's CEO "got his life back" by going yachting, and the rest of the world's millionaires are doing OK, too. But one Gulf fisherman would rather have something e...

Jun 22, 2010 / Laura Flanders

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