Grist is not so keen on the movie version of The Lorax, but the rest of the country is, apparently: The movie topped box offices this weekends.
In Illinois, two cars crashed into a major oil pipeline, shutting it down.
BP’s going to pay $7.8 billion to settle Deepwater Horizon claims, according to a settlement announced Friday.
Science says: Climate change made the Texas drought worse than it would have been otherwise.
Near Times Square, the sculpture “Manhattan Oil Project” portrays an oil drilling site — the destruction necessary to provide for energy hogs like Times Square billboards.
Climate change’s latest victim: outdoor ice skating rinks.
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