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BP collecting millions in government stimulus funds for California power plant
The oil spill bad guys are raking in taxpayer bucks to build a new Carbon Capture and Sequestration power plant in California.
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Standing in the way of justice for the BP calamity
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced yesterday that he would scuttle plans to attempt to debate the Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Spill Accountability Act, S. 3663, which would remove the ridiculously low liability cap of $75 million for damag
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The spill may be killed, but bad news still plagues BP
BP's "static kill" seems to have sealed the Deepwater Horizon leak. The leak may be plugged, but the bad news gushes on.
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Reports of BP disaster's death are greatly exaggerated
A narrative downplaying the BP spill has emerged in the press. Meanwhile, oil continues to wash ashore and the long-term effects remain unknown.
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The Gulf's invisible villain: natural gas
You can't see or smell the methane that poured into the ocean with the oil, but experts say it's stealthily destroying marine life.
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Congress rolls out its spill bills
Finally we got a look at what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) considers climate and energy legislation. Don't cheer all at once.
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Greenpeace shuts down 30 London BP stations
Greenpeace U.K. shut down at least 30 BP stations in London on Tuesday in one of the more ballsy displays of civil disobedience against the energy giant. Something for us Yanks to learn from?
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BP's secret ticket request line
For more than a decade, BP has operated a hush-hush phone line that California lawmakers can call to request box seats to NBA games and concerts at the Sacramento stadium named after its West Coast subsidiary.
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Amanda Little Needs to Rinse the Oil Out of Her Brain
I’ve always loved Amanda Little’s writing – and her news-breaking, hard-hitting interviews. But her latest incarnation as a “pro-drilling environmentalist,” while clearly well-meaning, is so divorced from the economic and political reality of oil that it deserves an open plea to escape what is clearly too much time spent in the barrel of Big Oil’s […]
