As lawsuits proliferate, will Big Oil join in a ‘grand bargain’ to save the coast?
As John Barry has said, this is Jindal's opportunity to prove himself a great governor or just another oil-industry lapdog.
Author: Mark Moseley
- About Mark Moseley
- Mark Moseley is The Lens’ Engagement Editor. He produces The Lens’ newsletters that highlight our essential local reporting and sharp commentary on issues that matter to New Orleanians. During an earlier stint with the Lens, he wrote opinion columns, coordinated the Charter Schools Reporting Corps and launched the “What We’re Reading” link roundup. His opinion writing earned a first-place award from The New Orleans Press Club in 2012. Moseley has lived in New Orleans since 1996 and co-founded the Rising Tide new media conference, which ran annually from 2006 to 2015.
Predicted exodus of offshore rigs turns out to have been mere Obama bashing
For all the dire warnings, the 'Obamatorium' on offshore drilling after the BP spill did not lead to economic calamity in Louisiana or anywhere else.
Honore delivers startlingly radical call to action against forces destroying coast
The need to resist Big Oil and the Jindal administration's shameless pandering to it has begun to forge a broad-spectrum political alliance.
Unprobed mysteries still lurk at the heart of the Danziger online comment scandal
Not all the comments by federal prosecutors appear to have been identified.
Judge Engelhardt’s Danziger ruling points toward a possibly far wider scandal
Engelhardt's probe has already expanded our understanding of misconduct by Justice officials in both Washington and New Orleans. There may be more to come.
Royalty-screwed: Big Oil likes to confuse severance taxes with cleanup costs
Using improved offshore royalties for coastal restoration would still mean taxpayers were paying for the industry's malfeasance.
Why Jindal is so reluctant to make Big Oil pay for ravaging Louisiana’s coast
The Jindal team's attack on the Flood Authority lawsuit is complex and hard to follow — a sure sign that they've been thrown on the defensive.
The O’Keefe/Letten dust-up at Tulane: more there than sound and fury?
O'Keefe may be a whack job — or "spud," as Jim Letten puts it — but some of his insinuations about prosecutorial misconduct are worth a second look.
He’s b-a-a-a-a-ck! Disaster-prone BP boss returns to the Gulf under new auspices
Tony 'I want my life back' Hayward may have been in charge during the blowout, but BP's corporate culture owed more to John Browne.
Keep an eye on next week’s jobs data — state’s ‘rebirth’ hangs in the balance
An unemployment uptick could cost Gov. Jindal some of his favorite talking points.
