BP CEO Bob Dudley said he thinks the press did a lousy job covering the company’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dudley — who took over this month as chief executive — told the Confederation of British Industry on Monday that there was a media rush to judgment about the spill’s effects, according to several accounts of his speech.

“We live in an atmosphere where many things are often exaggerated, opinion can quickly becomes polarized and it is tempting to react to events in extreme ways,” he said in a speech to the business group, the Guardian reports.

The EPA and Transportation Department are pushing joint greenhouse gas and mileage standards for big trucks this week.

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) denied during an interview Sunday supporting any kind of price for carbon, arguing technological solutions are more viable.

He said cap-and-trade trade policy to reduce carbon emission is not a proper environmental solution. A carbon tax is also unnecessary.

Technology is the answer for reducing the level of carbon emissions "without a tax," he said.

He noted that technological ways to make coal less polluting are limited, but he said his state is using carbon capture and sequestration to do just that. This technology sticks carbon emissions underground.

"You have basically parameters to fix it through technology," he said.

Acid rain levels have been reduced this way, he added, without burdening the economy and reducing jobs through unnecessary pricing measures.

The Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit claims that damage from the BP spill laid bare the need for fuller analysis.

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) said this weekend that his biggest stumbling block with conservatives was his insistence that climate change is real.

Inglis, the GOP lawmaker who was ousted by a conservative primary challenger earlier this year, said that his support for the Wall Street bailout paled in comparison to his insistence that Congress do something to address global warming.

"[T]he most enduring problem I had, the one that really was difficult, was just saying that climate change was real and let's do something about it," Inglis told NPR on Saturday.

Inglis voted against the cap-and-trade bill that passed the House in June of 2009, but has been insistent that the GOP work somehow to address environmental issues.

"As a Republican, I believe we should be talking about conservation," he explained. "Because that's our heritage. If you go back to Teddy Roosevelt, that's who we are."

GOP leaders had assailed the cap-and-trade bill, along with other energy and climate proposals that had been in the Senate, as a de facto tax on consumers and energy at a time when the economy can't easily stomach a new tax.

But climate change denial is also a healthy strain within the Republican Party. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), the top GOP member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, often says that the notion of catastrophic global warming is the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

President Obama used a Los Angeles stump speech Friday for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to criticize Proposition 23.

Organized labor is asking Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to quickly wrap up an environmental review of a controversial TransCanada pipeline in the midst of a firestorm over whether she is poised to approve the project ahead of a likely legal challenge.

The heads of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Laborers' International Union and two other multi-national labor groups are pressing Clinton to finish the review promptly so that work could start on the pipeline carrying crude oil from Alberta oil sands to Texas.

"Each week that goes by in the State Department's permitting process of the Keystone XL, a process that has gone on for more than two years, is lost ground for thousands of workers who are sitting on the sidelines of our ailing economy," the four union chiefs wrote Clinton Friday.

The wind industry is pressing Republicans to stop airing ads that allege renewable energy programs in the 2009 stimulus law are creating jobs in China instead of in the U.S.

The American Wind Energy Association, in a letter Friday to both major parties’ political committees, urges them to “refuse to support false statements about renewable energy policies in political advertisements.”

“[W]e urge you to use your influence to praise one the most successful programs to defend American jobs and prevent the surrender of jobs to other countries like China, and not encourage any candidates to criticize this program in misleading campaign ads,” states the letter.

Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck is looking to divert attention away from his skepticism of climate change science.