Great Lakes Law

The BP Gulf blowout and energy policy

If any good comes from the BP Gulf oil blowout, it will be a serious effort to reform America’s energy policy and reduce our dependence on oil. President Obama connected the disaster to the need for a modern energy policy that ends our dependence on oil in his first national address from the Oval Office last week. PBS NewsHour has great online coverage of the President’s address, annotating the text of the speech with comments... Read more →

The BP Gulf blowout - environmental law and political posturing

I’ll be on FOX Business Network today discussing the likely legal actions in the BP Gulf oil blowout and providing some commentary on the political response from Washington (to view video, cleck here). Earlier this week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the federal government has launched civil and criminal investigations (see this coverage from the Wall Street Journal with my reaction), but the Attorney General was frustratingly vague on specifics. Here’s my short... Read more →