Look, I'll admit to wishing I worked for a major metro newspaper or a clear channel radio station when the BP Horizon disaster struck in April. Not because of the access some believe that gets you, but because of the ability to reach so many more people and really effect change with the work I've done over the last four months.

That being said, it is rewarding to read days, sometimes even weeks after some of my original reports, major magazines and newspaper accounts of what I've been preaching here for the last month or so.

That being, a muted Hallelujah and a cautionary Not So Fast for the Gulf of Mexico.

For the rest of this column and a special report on the Gulf Oil spill from Newsweek, click here.