Fourth-District GOP Congressional candidate Cory Gardner this quarter returned $1000 to Joe Barton, the Texas representative who invests (unwisely) with BP and who apologized to the oil giant for the government’s demand that it set aside billions to…
Prime Minister David Cameron will meet with four Senate Democrats today to discuss whether BP played a role in the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, an allegation the company so far denies.
The senators called on BP to…
DENVER – Standing on the capitol steps recently, former Colorado state Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff said he was lonely as he became the sole signer in the Colorado U.S. Senate race of Moveon.org’s 98-percent Pledge.
Big Oil pays little taxes. This according to a weekend New York Times report that dredged up a 2005 analysis by the Congressional Budget Office showing oil leases and equipment are taxed at a rate of 9 percent –…
A BP Rocky Mountain region public affairs spokeswoman Wednesday, reacting to an apparent contradiction in its corporate campaign contribution policy in Colorado, said the global energy conglomerate has been consistent in how it makes donations to political campaigns.
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll delivers the latest edition of “Today’s Awful News” for British Petroleum. BP’s favorability rating now stands at 6 percent, lower than recent ratings for Phillip Morris (15 percent) and O.J.…
As the saga of Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-Texas) apology to BP took yet another strange turn today, a new poll shows the voters he represents think he was wrong — and that the entire episode has negatively affected their opinion…
After apologizing to BP for the $20 billion victims’ escrow fund, Rep. Joe Barton unapologized via a retraction. But now he’s unapologizing for that, sort of. David Weigel reports that the formerly penitent Texas Republican has
If he’s as “spineless” as Cory Gardner’s race-baiting critics say he is, it’s probably really hard to say no to oil and gas money – even if it is soaked in BP sludge.
Colorado U.S. Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette took a little less than ten minutes Thursday as a member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee to question embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward on possible corporate negligence in the form of cost-saving shortcuts…
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