BP: 2010 Finalist for Safety Award in Gulf Oil Drilling!

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Saturday May 01, 2010 · 6:38 PM PDT

2010/05/01 · 18:38

The following is not a parody. Click on the links to verify that this is actually true.

For the second year in a row, British Petroleum Exploration & Production, Inc. (BP), has been named a Finalist in the Safety Award for Excellence (SAFE) competition for offshore oil drilling! The award is given by the Minerals Management Service of the U.S. Department of Interior.

Congratulations, BP!

Heckuva job, MMS!

The awards were scheduled to be celebrated the day after tomorrow -- Monday, May 3 -- at the SAFE Awards Luncheon at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston.

Alas, however, the luncheon had to be postponed. According to the MMS, everyone in Houston is just too busy with the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to pause for lunch:

The ongoing situation with the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling accident has caused the MMS to dedicate considerable resources to the successful resolution of this event, which will conflict with holding this ceremony next week.

2010 Offshore Industry Safety Awards Postponed

http://www.mms.gov/...

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Tuesday September 22, 2009 · 12:35 AM PDT

2009/09/22 · 00:35

In a game-changing court decision Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit gave the green light to private and state lawsuits against greenhouse gas polluters.

The court overturned a lower court decision that said global warming was a political question, to be decided only by legislatures.

Matt Pawa, a Massachusetts public interest lawyer who is largely responsible for this litigation,reacted this way:

"Today, we celebrate a victory for mother Earth. Global Warming polluters everywhere: you are on notice that you are committing a tort and we will sue you."

The Second Circuit, an important, regional federal appeals court based in New York, ruled that "public nuisance" law can be used to sue power companies based upon injuries from global warming.

Eight states of the US, New York City, and three nonprofit "land trusts" that seek to preserve environmentally sensitive land sued power companies that own and operate fossil fuel (coal, etc.) power plants in 20 states of the US.

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Wednesday December 03, 2008 · 7:04 PM PST

2008/12/03 · 19:04

The CEOs of the Big Three automakers are driving to D.C., where they will be back before Congress, asking for their bailout. Earlier today, the word was that Congress would not impose any environmentally green conditions on handing over the money.

By afternoon, a lone environmental lawyer in Massachusetts had raised the alarm, got Barney Frank on the phone, had others get in personal touch with five other members of Congress, and was hearing rumors that Sen. Harry Reid, Rep. Henry Waxman, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi might be waking up to the need to "green the auto bailout" on Friday. Much more needs to be done. This is the story of a one-person cry-from-the-heart that could snowball into a movement by tomorrow.

On Thursday morning, Daily Kos readers have the opportunity to

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 8:49 PM PST

2008/11/03 · 20:49

YES

Honest to God, that's what Sarah Palin just asked voters in Reno, Nevada, live on CNN at 8:43 pm.

Poll

174 votes Show Results

Are you ready to send John McCain on his last mission?

174 votes Vote Now!

Are you ready to send John McCain on his last mission?

Yes!

15 votes

Eagerly!

6 votes

Can't wait!

5 votes

Most assuredly!

4 votes

With the greatest pleasure!

10 votes

And the VP he rode in on

134 votes

Polls close, Obama wins -- but at what hour?

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 12:46 PM PDT

2008/11/01 · 12:46

If you are as obsessive to know our political future as I am, the map below from the Swing State Project will tell you when to start hitting the "refresh" button on your computer on Tuesday afternoon: 3 pm PST/6 pm EST, when Indiana polls close except for the Gary region and southwest Indiana. But if you are in state where the polls are still open, check this information on your cell phone only, while you are still out hustling votes. And don't forget: more votes for Obama where polls are still open, even after the tee-vee starts making predictions, also mean (1) building up his mandate to govern, and (2) probably election of more Senators and Representatives. As Kos says, "Crush 'em."
poll closing hours
More analysis below.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 7:22 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 19:22

Take a look at the split screen of tonight's debate.

Barack loves America. He wears a flag pin.

McPain can't be bothered.

Q.E.D.
GOP B.S.

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 7:15 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 19:15

How could Gov. Sarah Palin have "abused her power" by violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act," if her firing of Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan was a "proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority"?

Update: upaithric in a comment below puts it this way: "In regards to her actions against Monegan, what she did was legal, but in regards to her actions against trooper Wooten, what she did was illegal."

The first of these is Finding Number One in the Report to the Legislative Council filed today by the independent investigator for the Alaska legislature. The second is Finding Number Two.

Gotta love the language we lawyers use, dontcha? I am going to provide some explanation of how both Findings can be issued in the same report.

The keys are the words "abused her power by violating" the ethics laws in her attempts to get Trooper Wooten fired, and the words her "constitutional and statutory authority" in regard to the actual firing of Commissioner Monegan.

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 6:41 AM PDT

2008/09/20 · 06:41

I read a Daily Kos diary today and then noticed the picture show at its end. I thought I would just glance at it. Then I stayed, mesmerized.

I am a hard-headed, practical, realistic, let's-just-get-the-right-guys-elected sort of guy. None of this emotional stuff for me. Been there; done that; that's where I was in my 20s, not now.

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 4:37 PM PDT

2008/05/07 · 16:37

My Oregon ballot is sitting on my dining room table, about to be marked for Barack. You thought that the Oregon primary was May 20? No, that's not when we vote. That's when we count the ballots. Election Day in Oregon is today.

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Wednesday December 19, 2007 · 8:42 PM PST

2007/12/19 · 20:42

George W. Bush's EPA today announced it is turning down the State of California's request for a "waiver" that would have forced the automobile industry to take new steps to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

California's Attorney General Jerry Brown and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced they will "sue at the earlier possible moment" to try to force the E.P.A. to allow the state to set emissions standards.

How successful are they likely to be?

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Saturday June 23, 2007 · 12:12 PM PDT

2007/06/23 · 12:12

The disappointing results of my assessment of the state of pandemic flu planning in Oregon and in my little corner of Oregon -- see my Diary a week ago "Ready or not . . . (for pandemic flu in Oregon)" -- is leading me to conclude that moving the fat elephant of state or even county bureaucracy and officialdom is beyond the redemptive efforts of a part-time flubie. So is there another path, or are we left with nothing except home preparation and opting out of society during a pandemic?

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Sunday June 17, 2007 · 5:55 PM PDT

2007/06/17 · 17:55

"Ready or not . . . (A flu pandemic is a real possibility, and local officials have done almost nothing to plan for it)"

Anyone concerned with pandemic flu planning (or the lack thereof) might document the lack of planning and transparency in his or her city, as I did here. I sent copies of this draft to all state and local officials for corrections. Some were helpful. Some were ticked off that it was going to be published.

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