Tag: oil and gas industry
Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now...
“Big oil was engaged in exactly the same type of behavior that the tobacco companies engaged in and were found liable for fraud on a massive scale.”
Where does all the radioactive fracking waste go?
A year-long investigation finds a major West Texas disposal site with a patchy record is also importing radioactive oilfield waste from abroad.
Massive fire erupts at Indonesian oil refinery
“The cause of the fire is not known with certainty, but at the time of the incident, it was raining heavily accompanied by lightning.”
Pennsylvania families exposed to unusually high levels of oil and gas...
“The commonwealth has a long relationship with extractive industry, but it is an abusive one. It is time to start planning a divorce.”
Indigenous youth embark on sub-zero, 93-mile run to protest Dakota Access...
"This is a critical step towards righting the wrongs of the past and setting our nation on a path of environmental, climate, and social justice."
$1 trillion in oil and gas pipelines worldwide could become stranded...
The pipeline industry faces growing questions about whether it’s wise to build a massive network of pipelines that could become obsolete well within their projected 50-year-plus lifespans.
Financial failure of California’s largest oil and natural gas producer could...
“If the state fails to require CRC to set aside funds to pay for its well closure obligations as part of the bankruptcy proceeding,” taxpayers could eventually foot the bill “to plug CRC’s abandoned wells.”
Trump administration proposes oil and gas lease sale in California while...
“We’ve blocked any new federal leasing in California in court for eight years now, and we’ll fight this too.”
EPA has granted more than 3,000 pollution monitoring exemptions to oil...
While EPA claims the monitoring waivers do not constitute a license to pollute at will, without effective monitoring there is no way to know.
Dow drops its oldest member, Exxon, after nearly a century
“Big Oil has fallen. Our job is to make sure they don't take us down with them.”
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Senator tackled and cuffed at DHS press event in LA as Trump-era immigration crackdown...
Sen. Alex Padilla was violently removed and handcuffed while attempting to question DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, drawing widespread condemnation and fueling fears of growing authoritarianism.
New study confirms glyphosate causes cancer at EU ‘safe’ exposure levels in lab animals
Even at the EU’s Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI), the study shows that glyphosate and its formulations have carcinogenic potential.
Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal agriculture fuels global health threats
Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.
Rethinking climate action: A new guideline for planetary health
A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.
‘Starvation by design’: Over 55,000 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces fire on civilians...
Palestinians seeking food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites are being killed and injured in rising numbers, as Israel enforces a siege that aid experts and survivors say is deliberately fueling chaos, displacement, and starvation.