BP Disaster in Gulf: Flawed Blowout Preventers Still Being Used

A lot of analysis has been done since last year, including a complete review of all procedures, and a forensic study of the blowout preventer that failed to close off the Macondo well. Ultimately, the last line of defense, the blowout preventer, failed, so there was nothing left to prevent the disaster. Not many lessons [...]

5th Anniversary of Katrina Today

Five years ago this morning, August 29, 2010, Hurricane Katrina hit just east of New Orleans. Five years later, we still don’t feel like we’re really part of the United States. We don’t seem to fit into the rest of the country. We feel taken for granted and then forgotten. Then we get remembered and [...]