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Livestream Event Transcript for “Downstream Radioactivity: What on Earth Is Coming Out of the Pipes?”

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2023 A transcript of Truthdig's roundtable with researchers and watchdogs on the radioactivity being released during oil and gas drilling. Dig deeper ( 75 Min. Read )

U.S. Sues California Over Law Blocking Sale of Federal Land

Emily Wells / Truthdig Apr 3, 2018 The law was passed out of concern that the Trump administration would undermine conservation efforts in the state. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Defendants Acquitted After Using a ‘Climate Necessity’ Defense

Kevin Zeese / Popular Resistance Mar 29, 2018 The Massachusetts trial appears to be the first in which the defendants successfully argued that their civil disobedience was justified by the need to stop climate change. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

California Prepares to Defend Its Wetlands From Trump Order

Jane Kay / Reveal Jan 12, 2018 In its first parry to the administration’s repeal of regulations, the state's water board has established its own rules to protect wetlands and other waters. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

California Has Ample Ways to Fight Trump on Drilling

ELLEN KNICKMEYER / The Associated Press Jan 5, 2018 Officials, environmental groups and oil industry analysts say the state has solid regulatory and legal means to block new drilling off its coast. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Saving Humanity From Climate Chaos Means Saying No to Business as Usual

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Nov 5, 2015 Corporations should not be a part of climate negotiations at the upcoming United Nations talks in Paris. They are part of the problem, not the solution. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Obama Clears Shell to Drill in Arctic — With One Restriction

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 23, 2015 President Obama has removed one of the last obstacles to oil drilling in the Arctic and granted Shell permission to develop new exploratory wells that could bring the company enormous profits. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Drills a Hole in His Climate Policy

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig May 20, 2015 Here are two facts that cannot be reconciled: The planet has experienced the warmest January-through-March on record, and the Obama administration has authorized massive new oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

To Drill or Not to Drill — That Is the Question

By Subhankar Banerjee, TomDispatch Mar 4, 2015 Major oil company Royal Dutch Shell wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer. In the long term, that could spell doom for one of the last great relatively untouched oceanic environments on the planet. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

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Report Criticizes EPA Oversight of Injection Wells

Staff / Truthdig Jul 31, 2014 The Government Accountability Office says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from drilling. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Floods Damage Colorado Oil and Gas Drilling Sites; Leaks Feared

BLANK Sep 18, 2013 Environmentalists and state inspectors are trying to track thousands of oil and gas wells, pipelines and fracking storage tanks to determine the scope of impairment from the region's massive floods. "They're just overwhelmed," one expert says. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )