Tag: Oil - Page 9
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Tim DeChristopher Moved Into Isolated Confinement Unit
An unnamed Congressman has complained about one of DeChristopher's emails. Now Tim will be in isolation until an investigation is completed. That is, indefinitely.
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Americans Mostly Just Whining About High Gas Prices - Spending Habits Don't Change Much
Even when gas prices rise, new economic research shows that Americans don't much cut back on discretionary recreational spending.
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BP Oil Spill Definitely Caused Coral Deaths in Gulf of Mexico
New research has definitively linked the BP oil spill with deaths in 54 deep-sea coral colonies.
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Nigerian Villages Take Shell to Court Over Oil Spills in Groundbreaking Case
Lawyers representing 35,000 villagers filed suit in London, alleging that Shell's slow response to a 560,000 barrel oil spill has destroyed their local economy.
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Corporations Wrote a Law Requiring Climate Denial be Taught in School. Tennessee Just Passed It.
Would you let corporations decide how climate science gets taught in your kids' classroom? That's what's happening in Tennessee.
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GOP Budget Gives Billions to Big Oil, Slashes Programs for the Poor
Anyone keen on deciphering the GOP's ambitions need look no further than its proposal for the U.S. budget—it sets aside tens of billions of dollars in handouts to oil companies while slashing Medicare and aid to the poor.
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Alec Baldwin Says Sen. James Inhofe is an "Oil Whore", Should "Retire to a Solar-Powered Gay Bar"
At long last, a story of the omnipresent 'Celebrity Says Something Semi-Controversial on Twitter' variety graces the green world.
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Top States For Transportation Fuel Consumption - Romney Missed A Campaign Opportunity
Gasoline politics: nine US states consume half of the liquid transportation fuel sold.
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World Energy Use Over the Last 200 Years (Graphs)
The Oil Drum whipped up some charts of world energy consumption over the last 200 years. They tell a powerful story of human progress and the perils ahead.
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Gas Prices May Fall Sooner Than Expected
Prices may soon decline, at least on the West Coast.
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Protecting the Arctic - Another Reason to Party
Sierra Club partners with Discovery to throw House Parties for "Frozen Planet" and to protect the Arctic.
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Obama's Gas Prices Infographic
Or, "Hey America, this one's not on me."
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65% of Americans Blame Obama, Congress for High Gas Prices
In other words, 65% of Americans have not been reading enough Treehugger.
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Uganda's Oil Extraction, Another Human Tragedy
With Uganda brightly in the spotlight thanks to the Invisible Children video controversy, take the time to find out a bit about another human and potentially environmental tragedy ongoing in the central African nation.
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Debunking Republican Junk Economics: Canadian & Bakken Formation Oil Feeds Record Fuel Exports
Irrefutable evidence that drillling more oil won't lower the price of gasoline. Obama was right: oil is the fuel of yesterday.
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Mitt Romney: The President Can't Control the Price of Gas (Video)
Whether he veered off script or momentarily came to his senses, the Republican presidential contender admits what every Treehugger knows: Obama doesn't control gas prices.
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Global Offshore Drilling Bonanza Heralds the Era of Deepwater Spills
As the BP Gulf spill slides further from view, a deepwater drilling bonanza is set to begin.
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Fox News Explains Why Presidents Can't Control Gas Prices, In 2008 (Video)
To defend George Bush from Democrats' accusations that his policies were raising gas prices, Fox News put together a series of videos explaining why the President can't control prices at the pump. Too bad they seem to have forgotten this in 2012...
