Gulf of Mexico
According to a new report released this week by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the American Power Act, if passed, would reduce the federal deficit by as much as $19 billion over the next decade.
The news for corn-based ethanol is getting worse: nitrogen used to fertilize corn has helped created a "dead zone" the size of the state of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico.
EDITOR'S UDPATE (Tues. June 29th): You can now try your hand at stopping the Gulf oil leak by playing XBox's new Crisis in the Gulf video game.
In a disastrous move on Tuesday evening, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman – the two sponsors of The American Power Act – bowed to big oil and voted against a provision that would have stripped $35 billion in tax breaks that the industry currently receives.
Nansen Saleri, one of the world's leading authorities on oil well management, says it could take until Christmas before the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is capped.
The livelihood of Pensacola, Florida’s waterways was put in jeopardy this past weekend, as boaters anxious for a day in the sun destroyed oil booms that had been laid to prevent oil from reaching the beaches.
BP has announced it will use all of the net revenues it earns from selling oil it skims from the ocean's surface or collects from the siphon placed on the busted pipe at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico towards a wildlife fund.
Associated Press photographer Rich Matthews wants people to see the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in a different way, so he jumped into the contaminated waters with nothing more than a wetsuit, scuba gear and a video camera.
After jumping in Matthews describes what he sees:
For several days now, tarballs from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been washing up on Pensacola Beach, Florida.
I have lived in the Pensacola area for almost my entire life. We’ve survived numerous hurricanes, red tides, droughts, and all kinds of natural disasters, but what we’re seeing in our town today is without a doubt the worse than any of those previous catastrophes.
