The Weekly Mulch from the Media Consortium: Washington vs. The Energy Industry
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger (reposted with permission) President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders spent this week trying to stand up to the oil industry. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama pushed BP to siphon $20 billion into a escrow fund that will cover liability claims, and Congress grilled BP CEO…
