Tag: Energy
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Groups Petition BLM to Protect Fragile Wyoming Habitat From Oil and Gas Drilling
[caption id="attachment_309518" align="alignright" width="400"] Drilling in the Douglas Core Area undermines the efforts of local residents and ranchers to protect sage grouse habitat. The male sage grouse shown in its mating display.[/caption] Today, conservation groups formally petitioned the federal government to halt all new wellpad and road construction inside the Douglas sage grouse Core Area…
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Bill McKibben: Will President Obama Stand Up to Big Oil and Reject Keystone XL?
As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has worn on—and it’s now well over two years old—it’s illuminated the Obama presidency like no other issue. It offers the president not just a choice of policies, but a choice of friends, world views, styles. It’s become an X-ray for a flagging presidency. The stakes are sky-high, and…
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Internal Documents Reveal Coverup in North Dakota Oil Spill
By Jesse Coleman North Dakota, long known for its cattle ranches and open spaces, has recently become one of the oil and gas industry’s most prized—and profitable—possessions, thanks to the advent of fracking. However, the price of oil and gas industry development is paid in destruction to the environment and strains to the regulatory framework meant…
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Pepsi and Coke, Stop Using Tar Sands Oil
Environmental groups Sierra Club and ForestEthics targeted Coke and Pepsi in two full page USA Today print ads yesterday for their use of oil from tar sands in corporate car and truck fleets. The ads are part of a national campaign to eliminate the use of oil from Canadian tar sands by corporate car and…
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Recent Spills Prove Management Nightmare for 500,000 Miles of Hazardous Pipelines in U.S.
By Lois Epstein What’s going on with pipelines? Has there been a high number of major pipeline tragedies recently, or are such incidents just more in the news with widespread attention to potential federal approval of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline? As someone who has worked on pipeline safety and associated environmental protection issues since I began…