When the US government announced three-quarters of the oil from BP’s leak “has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated” and what was left posed no risk, I said that the findings would be controversial.
What I didn’t say is that they would be blatantly challenged by scientists as wildly wrong.
Scientists from the University of [...]

So the UK Coalition government between the Tories and Liberal Democrats is 100 days old this week.
While this political milestone is somewhat meaningless, it does give political commentators a moment to measure how things are going.
When British Prime Minister David Cameron took power, he said he wanted the new coalition administration to be “the greenest [...]

Well we always knew that the oil spill disaster would have severe repercussions for the industry, a fact now conceded by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The IEA has warned that the spill from BP’s Macondo’s well “places the ability of the industry to access important new reserves on a knife edge“.
Its latest monthly oil market [...]

Yesterday the environmental campaign group Greenpeace announced it was launching a three-month expedition to analyse the impact of BP’s oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise will “host independent scientists who will be researching the impacts of oil and chemical dispersants on Gulf ecosystems and marine life,” said John Hocevar, [...]

When the Exxon Valdez oil spill happened the chair of the Trustees panel said simply: “lawyers not yet born will work on this one”.
His prediction essentially came true as the spill lawsuits grinded backwards and forwards through the courts as Exxon did everything in its power to delay and derail the legal process.
As the focus [...]