BP and this disaster demonstrate why transparency is the foundation of trust and accountability . Before the oil spill, during the worst of it, and to this very day, BP CEO Tony Hayward and his company have continuously resisted being transparent. They were stingy with information on environmental, health, and safety information well before the accident (see today’s [...]

A murky fog creeps along, choking the life out of the next generation and the most powerful nation on Earth stands powerless to stop it. This image could equally come from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico or out of the Charlton Heston classic, The Ten Commandments. The Mississippi is our Nile. The secret [...]