Tag: Gulf Oil Spill
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Gasland Part II: Our Democracy is On Fire
“I won’t sit by and watch our democracy burn. On Monday, July 8 at 9 p.m. EST on HBO, I’m going to get the right message out and I hope you’ll join me.”
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Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Still Spilling After Nearly a Decade
One thing, however, has remained constant at the site: It’s still leaking oil and forming a persistent, miles-long slick that is routinely visible on satellite images. Occasionally it reaches out more than 20 miles from the source.
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Big Oil Rakes in Huge First Quarter Profits
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — The five biggest oil companies are making tens of billions of dollars in profits, while paying artificially low, ineffective federal tax rates and low royalties for taking and producing oil and gas owned by all Americans …
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FOIA-Matic: A Tool for Pollution Response Transparency
SKYTRUTH / LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE— To help citizens find out how the Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency responded to pollution reports, we are proposing FOIA-matic, a new feature to be added to …
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EPA Accused of Violating Clean Water Act Through Approval of Corexit in BP Gulf Oil Cleanup
DESMOGBLOG — So from the start, it was glaringly obvious that both the EPA and BP knew that Corexit was the wrong choice, but chose to go with it anyway because it could make BP a little extra cash on the side …