Tag: oil spill
Biggest oil spill since Deepwater Horizon is twice as bad as...
The flow has been contained, but no cause for the ruptured pipe has been determined.
Latest oil spill in Gulf of Mexico is the biggest since...
The spill, the largest oil spill in seven years, spilled nearly 400,000 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
North Dakota plagued by oil spills: 745 in one year
Energy Transfer Partners and its subsidiary Sunoco are behind hundreds of thousands of gallons of spills from pipelines between 2015 and 2016.
BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused $17.2 billion in environmental damage...
Seven years ago yesterday, a blowout at an ultra-deepwater well operated by British oil giant BP in the Gulf of Mexico caused an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig and ultimately led to 134 million gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf.
North Dakota oil spill vastly underestimated as Trump approves KXL
On Jan. 24, President Trump signed an executive order making it easier for both the Keystone XL and the DAPL to go forward.
Dakota Access pipeline approved a week after co-owner’s pipeline spilled 600,000...
“You could just smell this oil smell. A customer walks in and says ‘nobody smoke.’ You could see it just spewing.”
High Court rules Shell not liable in UK for Nigeria oil...
The ruling is at odds with a decision at the Hague in 2015.
BP pipeline ruptures into CO river
The county where this spill took place has experienced 19 reported spills in 2016, 12 of those incidents were BP.
Pipeline 150 miles from Dakota Access Spills 176,000 gallons of crude...
Cleanup of this spill may last until spring.
Oil from BP spill has officially entered the food chain
The first signs of Deepwater Horizon oil were found in blue crab larvae in 2010. Oil likely entered the food chain through zooplankton
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States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.