by slinkerwink
The attorney general of the Department of Justice, Eric Holder, is on his way to the Gulf Coast with two other attorneys, Assistant Attorney General for Environmental and Natural Resources Ignacia Moreno, and Assistant Attorney General For The Civil Division Tony West. The Justice Department announced on April 30 that a team of Justice Department lawyers had been sent to "monitor" the spill and make sure environmental laws were enforced. "The British Petroleum oil spill has already cost lives and created a major environmental incident," Holder said in a statement at the time. "The Justice Department stands ready to make available every resource at our disposal to vigorously enforce the laws that protect the people who work and reside near the Gulf, the wildlife, the environment and the American taxpayers." The question then becomes---will they look into the reports of BP refusing to give their workers protection, seeking to destroy evidence, and their lies about the respiratory illnesses by these workers? Hopefully so. Here's more on this story below:
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"A Strange Corporate Oil State"
by Edger
Author and activist Naomi Klein has been visiting Louisiana, and conducted a short on camera interview with Al Jazeera about her impressions of the disaster response to BP's oil leak catastrophe... Senator Dick Durbin once described Capitol Hill as being owned by the banks. He said the banks 'own this place' describing why it was so hard to get financial reform through in Washington, and all I can say from having spent the week here in Louisiana is that it really feels like the oil and gas industry owns this place. I think we're dealing with two factors here. One is an election strategy for the Obama Administration, they want to keep some distance, they don't want to own the disaster fully, they want to still have somebody to point fingers to. But then there's also just this major attitude in this administration from day one really, to trust industry.
continued at Daily Kos....
Author and activist Naomi Klein has been visiting Louisiana, and conducted a short on camera interview with Al Jazeera about her impressions of the disaster response to BP's oil leak catastrophe... Senator Dick Durbin once described Capitol Hill as being owned by the banks. He said the banks 'own this place' describing why it was so hard to get financial reform through in Washington, and all I can say from having spent the week here in Louisiana is that it really feels like the oil and gas industry owns this place. I think we're dealing with two factors here. One is an election strategy for the Obama Administration, they want to keep some distance, they don't want to own the disaster fully, they want to still have somebody to point fingers to. But then there's also just this major attitude in this administration from day one really, to trust industry.
continued at Daily Kos....
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