West Virginia Toxic Disaster Requires More Than Silence

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jan 21, 2014 More than a week since the chemical spill in Charleston, the state capital, contaminated the water supply for 300,000 people, there has been little solid information about the danger to human health -- and little outrage from officials in Washington, who seem to expect West Virginians to take the whole thing in stride. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

R.I.P. Gulf Oil Well

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2010 It looks like the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is officially dead. The procedure to seal the well -- or in oil industry terms, to "kill" it -- has been pronounced a success, providing an unceremonious end to the spilling of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Alarms Were Disabled on Doomed Oil Rig

Staff / Truthdig Jul 24, 2010 A chief engineer has testified to a federal panel investigating the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon that, despite his repeated admonishments, alarms and other safety systems aboard the offshore oil rig had been left disabled or unrepaired in the months leading up to the catastrophic April 20 blast. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Double the Oil, Double the Problems

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2010 It's a doubly bad day for news regarding the oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico: Scientists have doubled their estimate of the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf every day, and BP announced it will not have the leak sealed before August. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hope on the Deepwater Horizon

Staff / Truthdig Jun 5, 2010 There's hope on the Deepwater Horizon after a new containment cap was put into place and 6,000 barrels of oil was funneled to the surface in 24 hours. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Puts Oil Companies on Blast

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2010 In a stern rebuke of the irresponsibility that has defined the actions of those involved in the Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama has revoked the "cozy relationship" that the US government has had with oil companies and criticized those companies' finger-pointing as part of a "ridiculous spectacle"In a stern rebuke of the irresponsibility that has defined the actions of those involved in the Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama has revoked the "cozy relationship" that the U". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Exxon Ignoble

Staff / Truthdig Jan 30, 2009 Resilient and ultimately morally bankrupt, international oil darling Exxon Mobil has managed to take the 2008 medal for most profitable American corporation, despite a 33 percent fall in fourth-quarter earnings. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Emergency in San Francisco Bay

Staff / Truthdig Nov 10, 2007 On Friday, a full two days after a container ship rammed into San Francisco's Bay Bridge and began spilling oil into the bay, Coast Guard authorities were doing damage control on their own behalf as the slick continued to spread. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )