Sunday, June 6, 2010

EDITORIAL, JULY 2010: SPILL, BABY, SPILL

By Cathryn Castle Whitman


By the time you read this, we may be in the midst of what could become the biggest environmental disaster in US history. Then again, if we can turn off the spigot, maybe not. Of course, what I’m referring to is the oil spill—or what Florida Governor Christ Crist has more aptly termed the “oil volcano”—off the Louisiana coast.