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In the face of a range of front-page disasters, various agencies have stepped up their investigations of fossil-fuel industries. There are serious investigations going on of natural gas fracking. The deaths in West Virginia have led to ramped up Federal mine inspections, with more aggressive action, which is following announcements for more serious analysis of the impacts of mountain-top removal. And, the flames and continuing oil leakage in the Gulf of Mexico has now led to a circumstance where every branch of government is investigating the offshore oil rig explosion and resulting oil spill.

After the starvation of resources for serious oversight of polluting energy industries during the Bush-Cheney Administration, we have to wonder whether the effort to conduct meaningful oversight and investigation of fossil fuel practices would have strained available resources even without these fossil fuel disasters demanding deployment of significant resources both to respond to them and, then, investigate them?