Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)

Soledad O'Brien, CNN enter new deal that will end her morning show role

2013-02-21 13:51:00

CNN and Soledad O'Brien Thursday announced a new deal that will take her out of the morning weekday anchor chair and make her an independent producer of documentaries for the channel. The move by new CNN chief Jeff Zucker is a smooth one that keeps a...

New Orleans Pelicans? This bird won't hunt

2013-01-31 17:46:00

Just when we all were getting over the irony of a team named the “Saints” getting stung in that tawdry NFL bounty scandal, the transplanted New Orleans Hornets of the NBA have announced they will change their nickname to the “Pelicans.&...

BP is not a criminal -- but its executives might be

2012-11-22 03:00:00

The Justice Department has entered into the largest criminal settlement in U.S. history with the giant oil company BP, in connection with the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history....

BP to pay $210,000 following spill response drills

2012-09-28 08:49:00

BGE, Rawlings-Blake, O'Malley working on their media moves in wake of storm

2012-07-02 14:12:00

I don't know which is more upsetting at the moment: The fact that I live in the area of Baltimore reportedly hit hardest by the storm and still don't have power, or the self-serving tweets from @MyBGE telling me how much it "understands" my "frustration."...

Obama energy policy: The 'all-of-the-above' lie

2012-04-09 03:00:00

In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get re-elected. For instance, Mr. Romney charged that, "As...

Obama finally takes on Big Oil

2011-09-21 09:30:00

I was pleased to learn that President Obama's new deficit plan includes ending $41 billion in subsidies to Big Oil ("Federal workers groups, contractors opposed Obama debt plan," Sept. 19). This is good news for America and good news for Maryland...

Graziano must go

2011-09-25 03:00:00

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City's strategy to spend millions on outside lawyers to avoid liability for lead paint poisoning its tenants suffered, and then to refuse to pay judgments in the cases it loses, is an utter disgrace. The fact that a...

Business in natural disasters

2011-06-20 16:50:53

Smiths Detection developed the portable emergency room to treat soldiers on the battlefield. But the tornado that tore through Joplin, Mo., last month, executives at the Edgewood manufacturer say, showed another potential use. The twister, one of the...

O'Malley wins 2nd term; GOP controls U.S. House

2010-11-03 06:50:00

Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley cruised to a second term Tuesday - and with it, won the opportunity to guide the state in what he hopes will be an improving economy - while Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. suffered a second consecutive...

Obama drops climate change talk as green movement fizzles

2011-04-27 10:21:00

"What the heck went wrong?" That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled. As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a...

Kamenetz names new economic development chief

2011-05-24 17:09:00

When blues guitarist Tab Benoit takes his fever for the Louisiana Bayou to the folks at the Bamboo Room on Saturday night, he will do so with blues-rockers the Royal Southern Brotherhood, a supergroup consisting of Cyril Neville, Mike Zito and Devon Allman, son of Gregg.

2013-04-08 00:00:00

Oil is seen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico in an aerial view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Mobile, Ala.

2013-02-22 04:33:03

The president, Michelle and Sasha Obama ride a boat in Saint Andrews Bay off Panama City Beach in Florida on Aug. 15, 2010, months after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

2012-09-04 15:11:00