Tag: Oil - Page 11
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Scars of the BP Spill:"Destroyed" Businesses, Ruined Beaches & Unpaid Settlements
The BP spill's impact is still reverberating in the Gulf economy, with ruined businesses and unpaid settlement claims abound.
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BP May Be Liable For Billions In Civil Damages For Gulf Oil Spill, Judge Rules
All that back and forth about how much oil really flowed into the Gulf in 2010 has again come into high relief.
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Obama's Coming Gas Price War with the GOP
Gasoline prices are ticking upwards, the GOP is licking its chops, and Obama is bracing for a fight.
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1.5 Million Acres in the Gulf of Mexico Opened for Offshore Drilling
Mexico and the United States have agreed to open over a million acres on the boundary between the nations to oil and gas exploration
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Bill Gates Presses SEC To Keep Oil and Mining Transparency Rule Strong Despite Industry Pressure
Bill Gates and Congressional members call on the SEC to prevent energy companies from diluting Dodd-Frank rules on transparency in resource extraction.
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Leaked Docs Reveal How Top Think Tank Turns Oil Money Into Climate Denial
Ever wonder how the climate denial machine works? Here's how!
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Happy Valentine's Day, Big Oil. Love, the GOP. (Photo)
One Congressional staffer has some fun with a bill that's stuffed with goodies for the oil industry.
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Canada's Tar Sands: So Destructive It Makes Its Well-Paid Workers Want to Quit (Video)
A Reddit user who quit his job at the Alberta tar sands project shares a video that demonstrates the devastation he was no longer willing to be complicit in causing.
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Opponents of Keystone XL Aim for 500,000 Anti-Pipeline Pledges in 24 Hours
Green leaders issue a global, social media-based rallying call to push back against an effort to pass the tar sands oil pipeline through the Senate tomorrow.
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How to Break the Grip of Fossil Fuels (Video)
I stopped by MSNBC's the Dylan Ratigan Show for the launch of the Defense Energy Project, and we discussed how to break the grip of Big Oil and unleash American innovation in the cleantech sector. Wath:
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Have Got To Go: Tune In for TreeHugger's Brian Merchant & MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan, Feb 8, 4pm ET
Tune in to MSNBC tomorrow to watch me explain why fossil fuels are too damn cheap.
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Energy News Recap: Dems Want Keystone XL Oil Export Ban; How Are Fossil Fuels Like Slavery?
Plus, the natural gas glut means many new wells will be uneconomical; over 4 gigawatts of US coal power plants are set to close or are being hung-up in court; and, nations should all pledge to double renewable energy at the Rio+20 conference in June.
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Senators Backing Keystone XL Bill Received $22 Million in Donations from Oil Industry
44 senators signed on to support a new bill that would push through the Keystone XL. And guess what? 44 senators got millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the oil industry.
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Despite $41 Billion in Profits Last Year, Exxon Pays a Lower Tax Rate Than You
What gives? After all, corporations are people, right?
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How the Keystone XL Could Still Lurch Back to Life
Thought the tar sands oil pipeline was dead? Think again ... and beware the Zombie XL.
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BP Knew 3.4 Million Gallons Per Day Could Spill, But Urged Staff “Not to Communicate to Anyone on This.”
Released emails show that BP knew almost immediately how bad the spill could be, and that the oil giant acted to explicitly keep the information to itself.
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Memo to Democrats: Get Behind Clean Energy. ASAP.
Everybody loves clean energy except Congressional Republicans.
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How Oil Money is Corrupting Our Children's Education
State legislators are pushing an anti-science agenda. But that agenda has been literally written by the representatives of Big Oil. Here's how.
