We “lost” Joseph Hazelwood today, the infamous drunk captain of the Exxon Valdez. I assume we are all getting drunk today and dumping cans of oil in our local waterways in honor. Anyway, a
I don’t remember when I first saw this in my research, but it came up on my Facebook memories and it continues to just amaze. Yeah we know. We definitely know these days.
There’s a real divide between the need for relatively loose personal bankruptcy law and much tougher corporate bankruptcy law. That’s because corporations routinely declare bankruptcy to a
Biden made a big deal about respecting indigenous rights around pipelines and other environmental justice issues where Native communities have been subjected to repeated violence and violations of the
This is disturbing, though not really surprising I suppose. For years, Big Oil has cozied up to American public schools—and now they seem to be cashing in their chips. New emails appear to show that
I recently read Megan Black’s 2018 book The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power, which explores the relationship between the Department of the Interior and American empire. In
While North Dakota engages in a gigantic herd immunity experiment (over 1 out of every 600 people in the state tested positive for COVID just yesterday), complete incompetence and Trumpian leadership
On September 11, 1921, oil workers in the San Joaquin Valley went on strike in a desperate, though ultimately failed, attempt to improve their lives. Showing how hard it was to organize during Red Sca