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Oil pipelines? Sure! What could go wrong?
Change of SubjectThink Progress reports: A massive toxic waste spill from an oil and gas operation in northern Alberta is being called one of the largest recent environmental disasters in North America. First reported on June 1, the Texas-based Apache Corp. didn’t..... -
22 arrested during Keystone protest
Tribune reporterTwenty-two environmental activists who staged a sit-in to protest the expansion of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring crude oil from Canada to the United States were arrested as part of a planned protest this morning outside the State Department...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama, Police Arrests, Keystone XL Pipeline
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Lake disappears, Kansas town tries to get it back
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA few fish struggle to survive in the puddle that used to be Anthony Lake. "It is very sad," camper Sherman Kelsey says. The lake was built back in 1934 with WPA funds. Through the decades it served as a major recreational hub for South Central...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Lakes and Ponds
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Review: 'Big Men' hits a gusher of oil and greed
No single resource is more essential to modern life than oil, and no film offers a more incisive look at how the enormous wealth oil creates subverts the morality of individuals, corporations, even entire countries than Rachel Boynton's compelling...Tags: Western Africa, Politics, Elections, Ghana, Petroleum Industry
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ExxonMobil faces federal lawsuit over Arkansas oil spill
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and the state of Arkansas filed suit against the oil giant ExxonMobil over a March 29 pipeline rupture that spilled 210,000 gallons of oil into a residential neighborhood and waterways in the small town of...Tags: Justice System, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Cleanup, Crime, Law and Justice
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State, feds taking ExxonMobil to court over Arkansas oil spill
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- State and federal prosecutors in Arkansas are seeking civil penalties from ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. over the company's oil spill in a central Arkansas neighborhood. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and U.S. Attorney Chris Thyer...
Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Issues
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Oil Spill Response Exercise Planned for Valdez
Channel 2 NewsAn oil spill response exercise is planned this week in Valdez to test government and industry capabilities. The U.S. Coast Guard, state Department of Environmental Conservation and city of Valdez plan to participate in the exercise along with the...Tags: U.S. Coast Guard, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution
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Ethereal, 8-foot-long 'sea serpent' caught on video
Scientists have released video of an 8-foot-long, shimmering oarfish taken about 200 feet below the ocean surface -- and it is breathtaking. Elusive and alien-looking, the oarfish has a thin, eel-like body with squiggly iridescent markings that glow...Tags: Science and Technology, Energy Resources
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U.S. oil and gas reserves up by a third, new report says
WASHINGTON -- Reserves of oil and gas that can be developed using current technology are 35% greater in 2013 than in 2011, according to a new report by the Energy Information Administration, the research branch of the Energy Department. The rise in...
Tags: Conservation, Natural Resources, Petroleum Industry, Environmental Issues, Energy Resources
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Deadline triggers rush of Gulf oil-spill lawsuits, including some from interior Florida
Even as Florida brought home several top-10 finishes in this year's annual contest for the nation's best beaches, the tsunami of lawsuits triggered by BP's beach-trashing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico three years ago continued to gain strength. The...
Tags: Justice System, Business, Volusia County, Lawyers, Disasters and Accidents
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The climate change guilt trip
A friend recently returned from a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. His eyes shone as he described the opalescent sky, the vitality of wildlife in spring and the fun he'd had playing with his two young daughters during the mellow evenings. It had been...
Tags: Global Change, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Lobbying, Travel, Environmental Issues
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Californians uneasy about fracking's safety, lack of oversight
As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll....
Tags: Energy, Business Enterprises, Polls, Credit and Debt, Politics
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