From The Heritage Foundation: When President Barack Obama’s own oil spill commission first met in July, they said that the President’s decision to ban oil drilling in the Gulf fell outside their mandate. But after a number of highly charged field hearing in the Gulf, the commission did a 180-degree reversal and promised to press the [...]

From CNSNews.com: A new oversight report from Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the senior Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, details what many analysts see as the failures of the Obama administration during the Gulf oil spill. The report lays out the ways in which the administration either failed to exercise authority it [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The Obama administration’s recently re-imposed deepwater drilling moratorium is now reportedly stopping shallow-water drilling as well. The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources issued a release Tuesday showing that the moratorium has resulted in a near-total decline of approved shallow-water drilling permits: Approved permits for shallow water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico [...]

From NewsMax.com: Allegations that scientists’ views were improperly used to justify a federal moratorium on deep-water drilling are being investigated, the Interior Department’s top watchdog says. House Republicans who had sought the investigation released a letter Thursday from Acting Inspector General Mary Kendall confirming the probe. Scientists who consulted with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for [...]

From Human Events: It’s one thing to say that President Obama’s administration showed its ineptitude and mismanagement in its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is quite another to grasp the situation up close, as I did during a recent visit to Alabama. According to state disaster relief officials, Alabama conceived a [...]

From Right Wing News: Well, it’s about time.   With a hurricane forming in the Gulf, oil washing up along the shorelines along the Gulf states, and major damage already done to the coast and industries, Obama finally has accepted foreign help: The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the [...]

From HotAir.com: A quickie but goodie courtesy of The Shark Tank, which wrangled this interview with LeMieux after a meeting of the Florida GOP. I’d be curious to know when, precisely, O told him that we can’t spare an all-hands-on-deck approach with American skimmers — although given the fact that that remains the policy today, their [...]

From GOP.com: In a 1999 Gallup poll, that’s what 6 percent of Americans believed. And today, that’s the same percentage of Americans that believe that Obama’s $862 billion stimulus created jobs, in a new CBS/New York Times poll. Compare that to the 48 percent of Americans who don’t believe that the stimulus has created, or [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: In his speech at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, President Obama told leaders from around the world that “the time for talk is over.” Obama pushed for all major economies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but admitted some doubt as to whether a collective agreement would be reached. He could offer [...]

From CNSNews.com: John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and President Barack Obama’s top science adviser, told Congress last week that the Earth could be approaching a series of “tipping points” that could drastically alter the climate and Earth’s natural systems and cause the sea level to rise [...]

From The Washington Examiner: Both the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy approved earlier this year and the version just okayed by Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Democrats (Republicans boycotted the vote) contains an obscure but nasty bureaucratic provision that requires President Obama to act like Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez. Here’s how: The [...]