Tag: Oil - Page 3
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BP Should Be Barred From Government Contracts for At Least 5 Years: Public Citizen
In a letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, Public Citizen calls BP "A repeat criminal felon".
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Rich Nations Spend 5x More Money on Subsidizing Fossil Fuels Than Climate Change Assistance
The priorities here seem pretty obvious.
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Shell Arctic Oil Spill Clean Up Gear "Crushed Like a Beer Can" in Tests
More detail has emerged of what happened during tests of Shell's oil spill containment dome last June. It doesn't bode well.
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100 More Colleges Join Fight to Divest From Fossil Fuel Companies
350.org's Fossil Free campaign is getting more backing, had a few early victories, and shows the maturation of the green movement.
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Obama's Secretary of State Candidate Has Significant Financial Stake in Tar Sands Companies
Should she get the job, Susan Rice would preside over approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, being developed by a company in which she owns $300,000-600,000 worth of stock. Conflict of interest much?
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US Ambassador Urges Industry to Adapt or Perish
Whaling was once the biggest employer on the East Coast. Whalers probably couldn't have imagined a different energy future either, but it finished them off anyway.
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$300 Million Raised by Ecuador to Leave the Oil in the Soil
Most of that comes in the form of pledges, but it's still a significant step forward for the Yasuni project.
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72% of Harvard Students Vote to Divest School Endowment From Fossil Fuels Companies
Pulling money from fossil fuels now has much greater support on campus than did the campaign to divest from apartheid South Africa.
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Protests Against Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Continue, From Washington DC to Texas
Keystone XL will be the Obama administration's a major test of its newly re-articulated commitment to taking action on climate change.
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Mississippi, West Virginia Drivers Most Vulnerable to Gasoline Price Changes
In both places people are spending nearly 9% of their income on fueling their cars, a new NRDC report finds.
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ExxonMobil Oil Spill in Nigeria Stretches for 20 Miles, Worst Since Company Came to Country
...And yet the director of local operations apologizes that the spill has caused "inconveniences."
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BP Will Pay Biggest Criminal Fine in US History For Gulf Oil Spill
Not only that, but up to four employees may be charged with manslaughter. But, will the fine actually encourage companies to be more careful?
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More Fossil Fuels or a Stable Climate? We Can't Have Both, IEA Report Says
Forget US energy independence, the real message of the latest IEA World Energy Outlook is that we have to keep two-thirds of all remaining fossil fuels in the ground to avoid wrecking the planet.
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Energy News: US' First Tar Sands Project Given Green Light, Keystone XL Blockade Enters Second Month, More
Plus, can you believe there have been over 4000 oil spills in the North Sea since 2000, but only 7 fines have been given?
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US May Overtake Saudi Arabia to Become World's Top Oil Producer (Maybe)
So much for the notion that the Obama administration has been anything other than chummy with the oil industry.
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Gulf Oil Spill's Effect on Whales Downplayed by NOAA, New Documents Reveal
Documents obtained by Greenpeace show that NOAA's press release on a dead sperm whale didn't tell the full story.
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Saudi Arabia to Transition to 100% Renewables
Comments by Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud hint at an interesting oil end game for oil producing nations, in an all renewable energy future.
