Julia Bovey emphasizes that oil drilled in the US won’t necessarily go to into US gas tanks or help consumer pocketbooks in Reuters… In the San Francisco Chronicle Jim Presswood drew attention to the obvious flaws of coastal oil drilling proposals, emphasizing that "there's simply no way, with 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, that you can solve our problems by drilling”… In the Associated Press Ann Alexander draws attention to BP’s record breaking profits, emphasizing that BP “ought to spend some sliver of their $9.47 billion in profits last quarter to pay the environmental costs of their [Whiting refinery] expansion instead of foisting those costs on to the community”… After ample consultation with David Pettit, the LA Times ran a story today on a SoCal court’s decision to deny construction of power plants in poor CA neighborhoods until the environmental and health impacts are assessed...

An Op-Ed by former NRDC employee Al Meyerhoff in the LA Times explains the foundations of the honeybee colony collapse disorder currently threatening California’s produce economy; facts in the article were derived from numerous conversations with Aaron Colangelo… Michelle Quibell explains the role of youth lobbyists in influencing D.C. politics on politico.com… Louisa Willcox explains the importance of full grey wolf population recovery in a Billings Gazette Op-Ed.