Houston’s Gulf Hotel after it was consumed by fire in 1943. It took 55 lives, making it the single deadliest fire in the city’s history. In the early morning hours of Sept. 7, 1943 — 80 years ago ...
To summarize North American fossil fuel derangement, you only need two sentences: The Gulf of Mexico was on fire this weekend. On Monday, the company responsible got a new offshore drilling gig.
When an underwater gas pipeline leaks, you have a problem. And with the Gulf of Mexico, that problem is quite literally water that had lit on fire and which has since been extinguished. The raging ...