OtherWords is celebrating Earth Day this week by offering three environmental commentaries and a cartoon that somehow finds the humor in the Obama administration’s nuclear power fixation.

Daphne Wysham parses Obama’s “dirty energy” policy, Antonia Juhasz reflects on the BP oil disaster a year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, and columnist William A. Collins highlights the dangers of nuclear reactors and weapons.

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1. Obama’s Dirty Energy Fixation / Daphne Wysham
2. Learning from the BP Oil Disaster / Antonia Juhasz
3. Volunteer Writers May Be Part of Journalism’s Future / Jason Salzman
4. A Year after Arizona’s Debacle, Congress Considers a Better Immigration Law / Rep. Mike Honda
5. Finally, Obama Leads on the Deficit / Donald Kaul
6. Gubernatorial Goofiness in Maine / Jim Hightower
7. Nukes: You Can Never Turn Your Back / William A. Collins
8. Obama’s Nuclear GPS / Khalil Bendib