BP may not be done with paying up for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill yet, as a group of Mexican lawyers are suing the company for the damage it did to its waters. The oil reached Mexican shores on 30 April. Hundreds of communities which...
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...the oil industry has targeted the traditionally African-American neighborhood of Mobile, Africatown, for its storage facilities. Africatown has long been the neighborhood of choice for polluting industries in Mobile, which.
Some people don't like to be wrong. I love to be wrong. That's because I'm pretty pessimistic about modern politics and even more so about the future. I don't want.
In modern America, perhaps no industry is as demonized as tobacco. That's because they knew that their products killed people and responded by hiding that evidence and asserting their product was safe. But the energy industry has done the exact same thing with evidence about...
I do love truth in advertising. From 1962
I visited the Smithsonian U.S. history museum last week and was amazed at how corporate-controlled it has now become. I am working on a larger article on this topic that.
I have a new piece up at Counterpunch on the Santa Barbara oil spills, 1969 and 2015: The environmental legislation the Santa Barbara oil spill produced included the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, one of the most important pieces of environmental ever passed. The...
In 1969, the beaches of Santa Barbara, California were inundated with oil from a nearby spill. This event galvanized environmentalists both locally and around the nation. I use the Santa.
I am extremely disappointed that President Obama and Interior Secretary Jewell decided to open up Arctic oil drilling. Certain environmental conditions are supposed to be met, but as we all.
Refinery workers with the United Steelworkers have now been on strike since February 1. The main issue in the strike is workplace safety. Let's take a refresher on the terrible working conditions of the refinery industry by looking at the daughter of a man killed...
Too much destruction, not enough regulation. A sign o'the times.
The refinery giant Tesoro has decided that it can't allow youth baseball leagues to use the fields it owns next to its Martinez, California refinery. That's because there are pickets.