oil
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Acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams reflects on BP's oil disaster
Author Terry Tempest Williams traveled the length of the Gulf of Mexico to see the fallout from BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Read the interview
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Big Oil's Golden Backup Plan
One of the few bright spots for environmentalists and progressives over the last year was this week’s successful defeat of Proposition 23 in California. As the organizer Saul Alinsky famously observed, power flows from both people and money. Unlike every other energy battle this year, for Prop 23, activists had both. It hasn’t been […]
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When corporations ruled the Earth
This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They've invaded; they've conquered; and a lot of people do their bidding.
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Lolcats punk Teh Yes Menz punking Chevron
Oh noes! Did LOL kittehs make teh ultamet pranksterz get teh punkings? Translation: Oh no! Did the infamous Lolcats from the pop cat-culture website I Can Has Cheezburger punk the ultimate pranksters, The Yes Men, for their recent Chevron spoof?
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Bike trail being paved with asphalt made from plants instead of oil
Chris Williams of Iowa U. has cooked up a bio-oil from plants that can replace the asphalt glue that holds our pavement together -- Bioasphalt.
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The polluters' newfound concern for the poor
Oil companies think they will deliver the masses from poverty and the World Bank seems to agree. But do their projects actually support the poor?
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What oil? Government scientists say they can't find much crude in the Gulf
This is just getting bizarre. A government-sponsored team of scientists out searching for oil in the Gulf reports it hasn't found any.
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Shell serves up a tasty crude oil 'salad'
Now I like a good vinaigrette, but this old Shell ad is a little too heavy on the oil for me. Petrole-yum?
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21st century energy superpower: China, energy, and global power
If you want to know which way the global wind is blowing (or the sun shining or the coal burning), watch China. That's the news for our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth. Washington is already watching -- with anxiety.