Below the Surface at the Gulf of Mexico
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and resulting three-month well blowout has become the largest maritime oil spill in history, and one of the worst environmental calamities ever. The spill has also come to personify the worst excesses of elite corporate greed, enabled regulatory laxness, bureaucratic inertia, and the destruction of a way of life dependent upon the sea. Below the Surface co-founder Jared Criscuolo recently returned from an emergency trip to the Gulf Coast.
Static Kill: Taking Stock of the BP Oil Spill In the Gulf of Mexico
The deadly explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig and resulting three-month well blowout has become, without a doubt, the largest maritime oil spill in history, and one of the worst environmental calamities ever. The spill has also come to personify the worst excesses of elite corporate greed, enabled regulatory laxness, bureaucratic inertia, and the utter destruction of a regional way of life dependent upon the sea.
Sen. Boxer Moves to Elevate Pinnacles National Monument to National Park Status
The landscape of Central California is some of the most sublime in the nation, especially in early spring when the hills and valleys are equally green and lush with new grass and colorful poppies from winter rains. However pleasant, the placid oak tree-dotted landscape is also deceptive, and does nothing to prepare you for the jarring change of scenery and outright primeval weirdness upon entering Pinnacles National Monument.
