Anti-Broadwater Coalition at Shoreham

It's hard to tell how the anti-Broadwater rally in Shoreham went today based on this cursory account by Newsday. (The problem with holdiing pseudo-events like news conferences at which no real news is made is that newspapers tend see them for what they are, and treat them accordingly, with a yawn, which is what no doubt happened today. It's worth noting that Broadwater held a counter-pseudo-event today that got even shorter shrift from Newsday.)

More interesting to me is that now there is a coalition -- the Anti-Broadwater Coalition -- that Newsday says encompasses dozens of groups. (Environmental groups often have small and overlapping memberships, so there's no telling how many people are actually represented.)

"The oil industry does not own Long Island Sound, said Adrienne Esposito, exec director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment. "We own Long Island Sound."