Tag: big oil
How Northwest communities are stopping big oil projects
Last week, a Washington state energy panel voted unanimously to oppose what would be the nation’s largest oil-by-rail terminal.
Congress works with Big Oil on letter suggesting anti-pipeline activists face...
“Corporations and their governmental enablers are desperate to silence dissent every way they can.”
Company behind gas rig explosion in Louisiana was sued for degrading...
What do we know about this company and its history in the state?
Oil rig explodes in Louisiana: 7 injured, 1 missing
The rescued crew members are being treated at local hospitals and a search is underway for the missing man.
Top Trump official for pipeline safety profits from selling oil spill...
Pearce's company was awarded three different federal contracts and provided waste disposal equipment to the Department of Defense.
Why one Native family is donating their fracking proceeds to benefit...
A new fund will support deeply researched investigative journalism that reports on critical issues in Indian Country.
2.9 million children are threatened by toxic air pollution from oil...
Living within a 1/2 mile of these production facilities is clearly correlated with negative health impacts.
Ohio communities face ‘voter suppression’ in push to rein in oil...
Waterville shows what could be if these ballot initiatives are allowed a vote: a genuine face-off between the oil and gas industry and local communities.
90 companies helped cause the climate crisis – they should pay...
The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes.
Alaska’s small villages turn toward renewables – and don’t look back
Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that’s not true.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.