This study evaluates environmental groups' responses to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, looking specifically at the 'causal stories' groups tell about the disaster. Using content analysis of email communications, press releases, and blog entries sampled between April 20 and Sept. 20, 2010,...

Environmental political theorists such as Robyn Eckersley, Douglas Torgerson, and John Dryzek have developed theories of deliberative democracy that require the inclusion of all affected communities, including non-human and future ones. Several of these theorists call on Hannah Arendt to...

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon platform is certainly generating liability for BP. While most attention to date has focused on the role of the federal Oil Pollution Act, BP's oil spill has already threatened, and will likely eventually...