Tag: crude oil
Derailed train spills 230,000 gallons of crude into flooded Iowa river
Rock Valley acted quickly to shut off water wells following the spill and plans to drain the wells and use rural water until the well water tests safe.
State of Emergency in California as Santa Barbara Cleans Up from...
Crude oil from a broken pipeline has led to an alarming amount of oil to leak into the Pacific Ocean leaving Santa Barbara area in a state of emergency. The company, Plains All American, is not required to be supplied with an automatic shutdown valve in case of a leak so the leak continued for a while before being looked into.
Federal Court Order: Explosive DOT-111 ‘Bomb Train’ Oil Tank Cars Can...
While the industry promised to phase-out DOT-111s, these “bomb trains” continue to roll through towns and cities across the U.S. It seems their promise has rung hollow.
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Trump’s National Park Service greenlights hunting of bear cubs and wolf pups in their...
Lifting this restriction grants hunters permission to use cruel and inhumane hunting tactics.
Watching American lemmings as they prepare to follow Trump over the cliff
These lemmings see him ignoring the Rule of Law, dismissing the Constitution as being irrelevant.
Who are the secret puppet-masters behind Trump’s war on Iran?
A shadowy group stoking U.S. hostility with Iran and the evidence that it is funded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
‘How dare you put our lives at risk’: Pennsylvania Democrat Brian Sims rips GOP...
Sims notes that the Republicans did not let the Democrats know that they had been exposed to the virus, arguing that such a revelation would hurt their argument to reopen the state.
‘Grotesque’: While 41 million people lost jobs due to COVID-19, US billionaires grew nearly...
"This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society."