The lawsuits continue to pile up against BP in the wake of their Gulf spill. Now they’re filing their own lawsuit to transfer blame.

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The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling reports that the BP Oil Spill came about because of industry and government complacency.  Obvious, really.

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2010 was another banner year for corporate greed, corruption and irresponsibility. We take a look at 5 of the biggest scandals in the corporate world

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There’s nothing like a breakdown of search terms to make us reflect upon the last decade.

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BP and Halliburton have admitted to failures in the Deepwater Horizon’s cement casing, and “Operation Dark Heart” author Anthony Shaffer blew the lid off of U.S. intelligence’s foreknowledge of Mohammed Atta’s terrorist ambitions pre-9/11. In the age of WikiLeaks, is it becoming more and more difficult to cover-up unflattering truths?

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First there was the marine riser. Then the unstoppable surge of methane gas, followed by the blowout preventer that could not prevent blowouts. Now it’s the concrete’s fault.

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On August 8^th, 2010, sometime in the late evening, investment banker, oil industry insider and energy advisor to President George W. Bush, Matthew Simmons, put on a pair of swimming trunks, climbed into his hot tub at his Maine home and attempted to relax after a long day’s work. By 10:00pm Simmons had been found dead, floating in the hot tub of an apparent drowning.

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Music and politics have always held hands in surprising and creative ways. There’s something about listening to a politics-fueled song or watching an intense, non-narrative but topic-based music video that often speaks decibels above reading a news story, at least for me. For example: a stream of carefully edited images set to the tension-building tune [...]

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“Do I think this BP spill is going to be the Three Mile Island of off-shore drilling? I don’t think so.” – Mississippi governor Haley Barbour 1979 was a banner year for energy-industry disasters in the United States. In the course of two months, two massive environment-wrecking events occurred that became the highlight of news [...]

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Search engines are not democratic systems, they are pay-to-play marketing tools for disseminating  information to internet users. Such is why, when you now search for terms related to the Gulf oil spill, BP’s website pops up at the top of your list. The vilified petroleum company bought up words and terms related to their disaster on Google, [...]

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Share Guatemala City is the world’s most recent victim of an unfortunate natural disaster. But if we’ve learned anything it’s that, from the comforts of our cubicle, we can find some good in the horrific. So when life gives your underdeveloped city a tropical storm sometimes it luckily makes a super cool sinkhole! What might [...]

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