AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.

Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!

Hot on HuffPost:

See More Stories
Politics Daily

sierra club

Published: 10/20/10

Opinion: 6 Months After Spill, Big Oil Still Won't Clean Up Its Act

By  not in system - AOL News
Opinion: 6 Months After Spill, Big Oil Still Won't Clean Up Its Act

(Oct. 20) -- Wednesday marks six months since BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We've watched Gulf Coast residents struggle as the oil coated their beaches and wetlands, tanking their economy and destroying jobs. And yet instead of choosing that tragedy as a moment to clean up its act, the oil industry has spent the past six months pouring tens of millions of dollars into lobbying and political campaigns to fight any reform or accountability for their industry. Big Oil supports candidates who ...

Keep Reading »
Add Comment
SHARESHARE
Published: 09/2/10

After Gulf Blast, Drilling Ban Debate Intensifies

By  Laura Parker - AOL News
After Gulf Blast, Drilling Ban Debate Intensifies

(Sept. 2) -- The explosion and fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has intensified the debate over the Obama administration's temporary ban on deepwater drilling in the gulf, even though the accident apparently did not involve drilling and the ban doesn't apply to the installation because it's in shallow water. Still, coming so soon after BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, calls for extending the moratorium -- or possibly expanding it -- gushed forth before the fire on the platform had been extinguished. Gerald Herbert, AP Boats spray water on an oil and gas platform that exploded ...

Keep Reading »
Add Comment
SHARESHARE
Published: 07/28/10

Ansel Adams Negatives Controversy: 5 Other Great Lost Artwork Debates

By  Kathryn Yao - AOL News
Ansel Adams Negatives Controversy: 5 Other Great Lost Artwork Debates

(July 28) -- Ten years ago, Rick Norsigian, a commercial painter in Fresno, Calif., found a box of glass film negatives at a garage sale and bargained the price down from $70 to $45. After extensive research on Ansel Adams and his purchases, meetings with with curators and historians, and hiring an entertainment lawyer and experts, Norsigian claims to own 65 glass negatives of Ansel Adams' work. Norsigian's appraisers and the news media have been conjecturing the find to be worth around $200 million. According to experts and a Beverly Hills appraiser, the works are authentic. David Streets, ...

Keep Reading »
Add Comment
SHARESHARE
Published: 07/14/10

Agency to Reconsider Halt to Natural Gas Drilling

By  not in system - AOL News
Agency to Reconsider Halt to Natural Gas Drilling

WEST TRENTON, N.J. (July 14) -- The Delaware River Basin Commission agreed Wednesday to hold hearings in northeast Pennsylvania on whether to strengthen or weaken its moratorium on natural gas drilling deep below the river basin. At issue is the quality and quantity of water in the Delaware River watershed, a mile beneath which lies the vast and natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation, most of it in New York and Pennsylvania. The gas is extracted by hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," a horizontal drilling process using millions of gallons of water mixed with chemicals and sand - with the ...

Keep Reading »
Add Comment
SHARESHARE
Published: 04/28/10

Cape Wind Finally Won, but Guess Who Loses?

By  Dave Thier - AOL News
Cape Wind Finally Won, but Guess Who Loses?

(April 28) -- A nearly decade-long process of permitting and protesting came to an end today when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave the green light to Cape Wind, a 130-turbine wind farm in Massachusetts' Nantucket Sound. The project will be America's first offshore wind farm, a milestone prompting the expected responses from advocates and opponents. What's interesting is who some of the opponents are and what Cape Wind's victory portends for their movement. In the long battle that preceded today's announcement, activists on both sides claimed the mantle of saving the Earth, but viewed ...

Keep Reading »
Add Comment
SHARESHARE
Published: 01/2/10

Endangered Tortoises Snarl Solar-Energy Plans

By  not in system - AOL News
Endangered Tortoises Snarl Solar-Energy Plans

LOS ANGELES (Jan. 2) - On a strip of California's Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nation's quest for cleaner power. Oakland, Calif.-based BrightSource Energy has been pushing for more than two years for permission to erect 400,000 mirrors on the site to gather the sun's energy. It could become the first project of its kind on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property, leaving a footprint for others to follow on vast stretches of public land ...

Keep Reading »
Add Comment
SHARESHARE
Published: 10/11/09

'National Parks': Ken Burns' Worst Idea

By  Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
'National Parks': Ken Burns' Worst Idea

I thought I would love the new Ken Burns PBS series, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea."Twelve hours on my DVR is a big chunk of real estate, so yesterday I decided to begin watching the series that premiered two weeks ago. I'd recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon, and I was eager to hear the back-story of this – and other – national parks. I'm a Ken Burns fan. "Frank Lloyd Wright" prompted me to read a biography and half a dozen books on his work. "Mark Twain" introduced me to Twain's dark side, but still gave the most celebrated writer in American history his ...

Keep Reading »
 30 
Comments
SHARESHARE

Follow Politics Daily

  • Comics
%PostTitle%
robert-and-donna-trussell
CHAOS THEORY
Featuring political comics by Robert and Donna TrussellMore>>
  • Woman UP Video
politics daily videos
Weekly Videos
Woman Up, Politics Daily's Online Sunday ShowMore»
politics daily videos
TV Appearances
Showcasing appearances by Politics Daily staff and contributors.More>>

News From Our Partners