I was going to go clean the house and forget about the BP disaster for a few hours. But then I saw the EPA files on William Reilly, the Republican Obama appointed to co-chair his BP Disaster “Looking Forward” Commission. From the EPA’s institutional perspective, he sounds like a nice guy: a Republican conservationist of [...]

As promised Obama signed an executive order forming a presidential commission to study the BP disaster today. I thought it’d be instructive to compare what he just formed with what Edward Markey and Lois Capps proposed. Starting with this detail: Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The Commission shall hold public hearings and shall request information including [...]