| Two years after BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig foundered and sank in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members and unleashing an 87-day torrent of oil that soiled surrounding beaches and poisoned delicate coral reefs, a pair of assessments paint a somewhat bleak picture of the subsequent regulatory reform. BLOG POSTS  | John Feffer: Scraping the Bottom
Just about every commodity we depend on is becoming scarce: oil, natural gas, key metals, rare earth elements, and even arable land. As a result, like greedy little kids with a cookie jar, we are scraping the bottom to get all that remains. |  | Michael Brune: Celebrating the Military Child Outdoors
Over the years, we've learned that outdoor programs can also help build resiliency and strength within military families. Getting kids and their parents outdoors together allows them to have fun and reconnect through the healing power of nature. |  | Heather Taylor-Miesle: Tea Partiers Are Destroying the Legacy of the Republican Party
The Republican-led House voted nearly 200 times to undermine public health and environmental safeguards in 2011. |  | Bill Bigelow: Changing the Climate in School
Scholastic's curriculum, The United States of Energy, was distributed free to tens of thousands of elementary teachers. It showed gleaming piles of coal, along with many of its alleged benefits. Students didn't learn of a single problem, including coal's huge contribution to climate change. |  | Astrid Caldas: Small Steps, Big Difference
When dealing with the environment, every small effort helps, because it adds up in so many interconnected ways. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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