Tag: oil spill
15,000 gallon oil spill threatens river and drinking water in Native...
Because of travel restrictions, officials from ADEC and the Environmental Protection Agency cannot travel to the spill site. Instead, both agencies are in contact with local responders.
‘Shell must not get away with this’: Niger Delta still waiting...
Titled "No Clean-Up, No Justice," the new report explains that for "more than five decades, the people of Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta, have struggled against oil pollution, destruction of the environment and human rights violations."
Trans Mountain Pipeline spills up to 50,000 gallons of oil on...
“The ongoing demonstrations across Turtle Island right now show that people are ready to stand up and defend their beliefs including upholding Indigenous Title and Rights.”
20,000 ton oil spill in Russian Arctic has ‘catastrophic consequences’ for...
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world.
A decade later and still nothing learned from BP’s Deepwater Horizon...
“Instead of learning lessons from the BP disaster, President Trump is proposing to radically expand offshore drilling, while dismantling the few protections put in place as a result of the catastrophic blowout.”
10 things we’ve learned a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster
Are we any closer to preventing a similar—or worse—catastrophe?
Years before Exxon Valdez, documents show Exxon’s imperial oil prioritized public...
Nineteen years after Imperial dealt with the Arrow oil spill in Canada, the grounding of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker released 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
Oil spill prevention law helps contain leak at Shell Puget Sound...
"No oil in the water is acceptable for any of us who do this kind of work."
10,000 gallons of oil spills into Chile’s pristine Patagonia
"These are home to some of the largest coastal colonies of marine mammals and birds anywhere."
Another oil train crashes as Alberta Government gets into oil-by-rail business
Oil trains will continue to derail and cause large fires and spills.
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How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.
What I saw in Cuba was resilience
It was a country enduring a 66-year siege, and a people who, against all odds, continue to build, create, and care for one another.
Top Interior officials ordered parks to end science policy, emails show
Under President Donald Trump, the Park Service has rescinded a policy aimed at preventing activities that threaten park resources and human health.
New infographic shows how only 10 companies control every brand we know
Regardless of what the companies claim, the Big 10 do have the power and resources to address hunger and poverty within their supply chains.
Meta & Google found liable in landmark cases for knowingly causing harm to young...
Over the course of the trials, documents revealed that tech companies were well aware of the addictive properties of their social media products and exploited these properties to increase their profits.