Big Oil
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Exxon says climate lawsuits violate its right to free speech. Seriously.
Exxon is spinning a new narrative about who the real victim is.
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Paid actors faked public support for a power plant in New Orleans
If the oil industry were involved ... well, we wouldn't be surprised.
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Way back when, Big Oil taught tobacco companies a few tricks
New evidence shows the oil industry wrote the playbook on shady PR tactics.
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California’s primary has oily fingers all over it
Don’t let Hillary vs. Bernie distract you from the other Democrat vs. Democrat cage matches in play.
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Trump’s new energy adviser is exactly the kind of guy you think he is
He’s a climate skeptic who proposed a bill to run gas pipelines through national parks.
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Big Oil doesn’t even need Keystone — all the more reason to kill it
The Keystone XL battle is mostly symbolic at this point, which makes winning even more important.
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This 1956 cartoon will convince you to marry oil and have oil babies
From the golden era of American cartoon propaganda.
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Critical List: Mad cow disease in California; first arrest in BP oil spill investigation
The USDA found a case of mad cow disease in California. Federal prosecutors charged a former BP engineer with deleting text messages in order to keep information about the true size of the Deepwater Horizon spill from investigators. The three cities with the most air pollution in the country are all in California, but L.A. […]
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Oil shale: An environmental disaster waiting to happen?
It used to be that oil came from a hole drilled in the ground. But as oil has become more scarce, the ways of getting at it have become more numerous — so much so that it’s getting hard to keep track. Oil sands, shale oil, oil shale: These are all different sources of oil. […]