The EU has a "research" fund that subsidizes coal mining, about 15 million dollars a year.

At the site of the big spill, an area of sea floor is covered by a two-inch blanket of oil .

It's going to stay there for a long time. Microbes consumed 5/6 of the big spill. What's left spill is the part that was too toxic for microbes, mixed with corexit making it even more toxic. That will remain for a long, long time.

Wyoming has made it a crime to collect a sample of pollution, or even take a photo of it, to show to a government agency.

This is typical of laws adopted by plutocratist politicians. They don't make any sense except as a reinforcement of illegitimate rule. The first one I know of was the DMCA, which made it a crime to break DRM.

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Rand Paul wants to jail people for attending political speeches.

>He has other bad positions on human rights issues .

Saudi Arabia is about to execute a dissident.