Offshore drilling industry’s dirty little secret: they can’t clean it up

Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson recently told Congress, 'the point is we have to take every step to prevent these things from happening, because when they happen we are not well equipped to prevent any and all damage. There is no response capability that wi

Beleaguered BP CEO Tony Hayward is running a series of television ads in the Mexico Gulf region that end with the promise, as he looks the viewer in the eye, "we will make this right." Leaving aside for the moment the fact that the hundreds of thousands of animals are already dead or are slowly d...

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