Brett Wilkins / Common DreamsJul 15, 2024
In a new parody commercial, Big Oil mocks humanity for letting them get away with it for so long. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Joan Meiners / ProPublicaDec 27, 2019
A new probe finds Louisiana has failed to pursue millions in remediation for spills—money environmental groups say they desperately need. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
By Nadia Prupis, Common DreamsOct 21, 2015
The petroleum company may have violated federal law by funding a decadeslong misinformation campaign on climate change, the Vermont senator says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Harvey Wasserman / TruthdigApr 9, 2014
How petro-pollution and nuclear fallout interact remains largely unstudied, but the answers can’t be good. And it’s clearer than ever that we won’t survive without ridding our planet of both. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Greg Palast / TruthdigMar 28, 2014
It was Good Friday, 50 years ago on March 27, 1964, when an earthquake-spurred tsunami wiped out the Chugach village in Chenega, Alaska. Twenty-five years later, as villagers celebrated the rebuilding of their home, a wave of oil from the Exxon Valdez began to move their way.Fifty years ago a tsunami wiped out the Chugach village. Twenty-five years later, as villagers celebrated the rebuilding of their home, another kind of wave headed their way. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Greg Palast / TruthdigMar 24, 2014
Two decades ago I was the investigator for the legal team that sold you the bullshit on the crackup of the Exxon Valdez Now, on the 25th anniversary of that disaster, and four years after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, the Obama administration has authorized BP to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico -- and it's all set to happen again Now, on the 25th anniversary of that disaster, it's all set to happen again. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 26, 2014
The contentious practice of hydraulic fracturing -- commonly referred to as "fracking," thus offering opponents a handy resemblance to a popular expletive -- isn't something Exxon Mobil's head honcho, Rex Tillerson, has opposed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 31, 2010
An oil spill following a pipeline explosion in China's Yellow Sea could be much bigger than the government is admitting. The Chinese government says 1,500 tons of oil was spilled, but an American expert who visited the scene says it may actually be 50 times that figure, putting it on the order of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigJun 16, 2010
What's with the president's war analogy on the oil spill? It's as if some alien force, "The Invasion of the Slippery Sludge," suddenly attacked us What nonsense . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 28, 2010
By the most conservative estimate, BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster has already spilled nearly twice as much oil as the Exxon Valdez. The impact of the 1989 environmental and commercial catastrophe is still being felt in Alaska more than 20 years later. The gulf spill could already be five times as big as Valdez. Watch live footage of the effort to stop the undersea gusher after the jump. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigMay 12, 2010
“Drill, baby, drill!” Those were the words that Sarah Palin used to electrify the 2008 Republican National Convention. But while she popularized that environment-be-damned slogan, it had already defined the eight years of oil-drilling policy that prevailed during the presidency of George W. Bush.
“Drill, baby, drill!” Those were the words that Sarah Palin used to electrify the 2008 Republican National Convention. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 1, 2010
Amid a wave of finger-pointing, rough waters in the Gulf of Mexico have quickly tripled the surface area of what could become one of the most disastrous oil spills in U.S. history, with the goo already lapping at valuable shoreline habitat. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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