In testimony this week, the two people who served as Secretary of the Interior under President Bush, stated that they were shocked an oil spill the size of the BP disaster could have happened.

Well, it appears a mere three months into the massive environmental catastrophe that is the Horizon Rig disaster, BP has temporarily stopped the gushing oil.

Did you know that there's a $75 million cap on an oil company's liability in the event of an oil spill?

There are a number of articles all over the interwebs this morning talking about BP's announcement that gushing oil disaster in the Gulf could be stopped by the end of the month.

For the July 4th weekend, I went camping and hiking down in the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. I was a little shocked to see a healthy sized mine, run by Chevron, smack dab in the middle of the forest.

Anyone who reads this regularly knows that I have a massive crush on the NY Times Infographics. And today while poking around, I found one that's very helpful in keeping track of all efforts with the oil catastrophe in the Gulf.

I've been poking around looking at all the horrific info on the Gulf oil spill. We made a counter to track a rough approximation of how much oil has been dumped into the Gulf as a result of the accident, which is good, but I found a great map online that everyone should check out.

I know we've all watched in horror the footage of the disaster in the Gulf. We've seen the dead wildlife, we've seen the clouds of oil, we've seen the pictures of empty docks and restaurants as the Gulf coast residents try to figure out 'what next'.

This will be an all too short post, as really, it's just an update on the now failed cap on the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico.

In a lovely show of either short sightedness or vested interest, Federal Judge Martin Feldman reversed the Obama administration's moratorium on current and planned deepwater drilling in the Gulf and Pacific ocean.