WHY CLEANING UP AN ARCTIC OIL SPILL WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE

Oil spills are a terrible, horrible, no good, very big mess, even in in the best of times. But as a new report shows, cleaning up an oil spill in the pristine Arctic Ocean would be next to impossible. Even as Gulf Coast residents and ecosystems are still reeling from the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010, Shell Oil has announced plans to begin exploration drilling this coming summer in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska...