Useful Community Links
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Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/ncZr2o - September 29, 2011, 11:55 pm
I just started a petition on the "We the People" program hosted by WhiteHouse.gov. The title of the petition is: "Promote US basic science research and education through reallocation of national defense funds," which calls for a significant reduction in defense funding and reallocation of the funds to scientific agencies.
Even if you don't agree with my petition, at least sign up and vote on some other ones. This is a great way to participate in government at the federal level!
Oh, and my petition is getting up there on the Science Subreddit...if you Reddit (narwhal bacons at midnight, etc., etc.), you should give me a little red arrow: http://bit.ly/oqkuT0
Pat Bowen - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/06/gop-environmental-wish-list-horrifying.php - June 3, 2011, 8:43 pm
Republicans have seized their moment in the sun to pursue a bill known as the 3-D Act (Domestic Jobs, Domestic Energy and Deficit Reduction). It's essentially what the New York Times calls "the right's environmental wish list" -- a series of 12 initiatives that include gutting the Clean Air Act, opening up pristine lands for drilling, and trampling the Endangered Species Act.
Pat Bowen - http://youtu.be/1iR29j3m_d4 - May 12, 2011, 9:11 am
Senate Debates Bill to End Oil Company Subsidies and Save $21 Billion. Durbin spoke on the floor of the United States Senate about the need to end taxpayer subsidies for oil companies already making record profits.
Pat Bowen - http://huff.to/iG8482 - May 10, 2011, 5:47 pm
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee each received $5,000 from BP last month.
Indiana Democratic Rep. Pete Visclosky got $3,000, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) bagged $1,000.
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/f47Y21 - April 22, 2011, 12:44 am
"I've been a fishing guide in the waters of the Louisiana bayou for more than 30 years. This special place along the Gulf of Mexico is a national treasure, a place where you could cast a rod out into the warm waters and pull out a red fish or speckled trout like snapping your fingers..."
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/ex6AIJ - February 25, 2011, 1:15 am
Baby bottlenose dolphins are washing up dead in record numbers on the shores of Alabama and Mississippi, alarming scientists and a federal agency charged with monitoring the health of the Gulf of Mexico.
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/hRqh4A - January 19, 2011, 11:08 pm
It comes less than a year after the oil company's massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico - the worst environmental disaster in US history.
A White House investigation led by William Reilly uncovered a culture of complacency, cost-cutting and systemic failures, and companies unprepared to deal with accidents and consequences.
"BP was irresponsible and I think to a significant degree incompetent with respect to several major decisions that were made in the rigs - some of which we don't understand," Mr Reilly said.
But the Australian Government is undeterred and it has given BP permission to explore for oil and gas in 24,000 square kilometres of the Great Australian Bight.
Pat Bowen - http://www.petitiononline.com/gdejwz62/petition.html - January 18, 2011, 10:44 pm
"Where as you were given, by the power of the President of the United States, who, as an elected official, is hired by the American people, the responsibility to oversee the $20 billion dollar compensation fund concerning citizens, families and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Oil Catastrophe and have failed in your ability to do so in an honorable, productive, effective, responsible, coherent, consistent or intelligent way.
"KENNETH FEINBURG, YOU ARE FIRED!"
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/hwxMqi - January 17, 2011, 3:12 am
"...According the Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, "BP's negligence and incompetence in this instance were truly remarkable; the company sets a very high bar for future experimenters and purveyors of environmental disaster to try to top."
"It is difficult to find the silver lining amongst all the black, sticky tar, but this award highlights what scientists have been able to learn from the spill, such as discovering new forms of oil-eating bacteria and determining that massive amounts of dispersants do indeed send oil particles to the seafloor, contaminating the sediments..."
Pat Bowen - http://read.bi/fzBRd3 - January 17, 2011, 3:05 am
"It may or may not come as a shock that the commission, established at the peak of the nation's outrage with BP and its CEO Tony "I just want my life back" Hayward, identifies a new scapegoat culprit: the media.
"In particular, the report accuses Anderson Cooper of intentionally seeking out people that were upset with the government response to the disaster..."
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/gQAbvg - December 16, 2010, 9:55 pm
"I find it unthinkable that the Senate would even consider Senator Rockefeller's audacious proposal to dismantle the Clean Air Act and to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate industrial air pollution from fossil fuels. I emphatically urge you to reject Senator Rockefeller's offensive resolution."
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/cQjOwV - August 25, 2010, 11:07 am
"The caller informed me he was working with Bob Naman, the chemist who found the Corexit in the water in story above, to perform independent testing of Florida waters.
"He told me he just spoke with Bob about the results of water samples taken all the way down to Naples and St. Petersburg Florida which all tested positive for oil contamination.
"During their conversation the Corexit samples in Alabama were brought up and what was actually found was not Corexit at 13.3 parts per million, but was actually the dangerous neurotoxin pesticide 2-butoxyethanol which makes is the main ingredient of Corexit 9527A by 30 to 60% by volume."
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/bjHnKU - August 23, 2010, 9:28 pm
BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing—but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come.
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/dsWoNo - August 12, 2010, 12:41 am
"Linda Hooper-Bui, Louisiana State University Department of Entomology Associate Professor, writes in The Scientist, 'My PhD student’s ant samples were taken away by a US Fish and Wildlife officer at a publicly accessible state Wildlife Management Area because our project hadn’t been approved by Incident Command.'"
Pat Bowen - http://wkrg.com/a/912930 - August 12, 2010, 12:33 am
The Obama administration is basically "aiding and abetting" future environmental terrorism.
"The $20 billion victims' compensation fund established for the Gulf oil spill may use revenue from BP's oil and gas drilling as collateral, according to details released Wednesday by the White House."
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/amwPeM - August 6, 2010, 4:09 pm
"A struggle between BP and the Obama administration over the future of the cemented well in the Gulf of Mexico erupted in public today when the oil company suggested it may drill in the same reservoir again."
Pat Bowen - http://nyti.ms/dBQ0iD - August 6, 2010, 11:36 am
"As of Aug. 4, more than 6,000 birds, sea turtles and dolphins have been found dead or debilitated in the gulf since the oil spill began. A majority of the dead were not visibly oiled, and officials have yet to determine why they died. But they have confirmed that many more animals are dying than during the same time period in previous years."
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/dufqcG - August 6, 2010, 8:00 am
"One in five beaches off the Gulf of Mexico has been closed this season because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a new report issued by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental action group headquartered in New York City."
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/9CYXaW - August 5, 2010, 9:43 pm
"BP finished pouring cement down its crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday in an operation known as a "static kill," completing the job earlier than expected.
"The government official overseeing the effort is sounding increasingly optimistic that the end is in sight in the drive to seal the well once and for all."
Pat Bowen - http://bit.ly/degCHl - August 5, 2010, 12:38 pm
"A pair of fishermen in Mississippi made an alarming discovery that has many wondering what's happening below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico. They found several full-sized crabs filled with some sort of black substance."