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How Worried Should We Be About Climate Change?

David Vognar | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Melting Permafrost, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, La Nina, El Nino, Arctic Drilling, Climate Change Denial, Shell Oil, Global Warming, Green News

Simply put: Is climate change something to be worried about enough to take bold action against or something to merely keep an eye on?

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Russia's Hidden 'Arctic Nightmare'

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Oil Spill, Russia Black Ice, Climate Change, Shell Oil, Arctic Offshore Drilling, Global Warming, Slideexpand, Arctic Oil, Russia Oil Spills, Russia Arctic Oil, Green News

"I have to see it to believe it," was the reaction to my Russian colleague, Jon Burgwald, when he told me that every spring the rivers in Northern Russia turn black with oil saturated ice. He sent me the pictures last night.

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What Does Shell Have in Common With General Ratko Mladic?

Katie Redford | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Human Rights, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporate Responsibility, Royal Dutch Shell, Corporate Social Responsibility, Shell Oil, Business News

What does Royal Dutch Shell have in common with General Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb army? More than you'd think...

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Dear Shell: Please Be Honest About Risks from Your Arctic Ocean Oil Drilling This Summer

Richard Steiner | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Shell Oil, Shell Arctic Oil Drilling, Shell Arctic Drilling, Shell Alaska Drilling, Shell Arctic, Green News

It seems important that Shell clarifies, on the public record, these issues before a serious problem develops with its offshore exploratory drilling this summer in the Arctic Ocean.

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Environmental Groups Push Back Against Shell Arctic Permits

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Arctic Drilling, Epa Air Permits, Shell Arctic Drilling, Shell Kulluk Ship, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Kulluk Air Permit, Shell Arctic, Shell Alaska, Alaska, Shell Air Permit, Shell, Alaska Oil, Shell Oil, Video, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Environmental and Alaska Native groups on Wednesday appealed an air permit granted by the Environmental Protection Agency t...

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Court Weighs New Gulf Drilling Plans

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Gulf Drilling, Energy, Shell Alabama Offshore Drilling, Alabama, Video, Shell Gulf Offshore Drilling, Shell Gulf Drilling, Alabama Offshore Drilling, Gulf Offshore Drilling, Shell, Shell Oil, Green News

ATLANTA -- Environmental groups urged an appeals court on Wednesday to block Shell from drilling 10 new deep-water wells off Alabama's coast, arguing ...

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President Obama: What Is It Going to Take to Stop Shell's Arctic Drilling?

Cindy Shogan | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Polar Bears, Deepwater Horizon, Arctic Drilling, Obama, Inupiat Eskimo, Shell Oil, Arctic, Green News

The reasons not to drill just keep mounting -- and the reasons to drill? Well, there seems to be just one, and I can't say it in politically correct company. I can give you a hint: Republican rhetoric and the 2012 presidential election.

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Big Oil's Arctic Bet: A Fool's Risk

David Yarnold | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Earth, Arctic Drilling, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, National Audubon Society, Shell Oil, Green News

If there is a spot on Earth as sacred or as critical to the future of our wild birds as the Gulf of Mexico, it is the unspoiled Arctic. The potential harm from a BP-scale spill is almost beyond comprehension.

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Shell Supports Iran's Murderous Mullahs; Should We Be Supporting Shell?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Energy, Cnbc, Alaska, Department of the Interior, World, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Iran, Neda Agha Soltan, Beaufort Sea, Wall Street Journal, Iran's Mullahs, National Iranian Oil Company, Shell Oil, Business News

The callous greed in the oil patch seems to know no limits. Here we have a company, Royal Dutch Shell, bursting with earnings, at the apogee of its yearly returns, going after the last dollar or Euro to make things fatter still.

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Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan Approved

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Energy, Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan, Arctic Drilling, Video, Shell Arctic Drilling, Shell Arctic, Shell Arctic Exploration, Arctic Oil Spill, Shell, Offshore Drilling, Shell Oil, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal offshore drilling regulators on Wednesday approved Shell Oil's spill response plan for exploratory drilling in the ...

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Oil Giant Struggling With Iran Sanctions

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Iranian Sanctions, Shell Iran Bill, Sanctions Oil, Shell Oil Bill, Reuters, Iran Sanctions, Shell Iran, Shell Oil, Video, Business News

By Richard Mably and Peg Mackey LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is struggling to pay off $1 billion that it owes Iran f...

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Shell's Lawsuit Against Environmental Organizations Courts Disaster

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Jennifer Marlow, James Smith, Bp, Center for Biological Diversity, Arctic Drilling, Jerry Brown, Polar Bears, Brent Spar, Three Degrees Project, Penguins, Niger Oil Leaks, National Audubon Society, Sierra Club, Shell Oil, Oceana, Green News

Shell is suing 12 environmental organizations to preempt legal challenges to exploration in the Arctic Ocean. It's a bully image that can only hurt, and Shell should know better because it's happened to them over and over again.

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A Dangerous Gamble in the Arctic

Bill Meadows | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Oil, Oil Spill, Repsol, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Drilling, Oil Drilling, Shell Oil, Alaska, Shell, Alaska Drilling, Green News

The Arctic recently sent a strong warning that hubris has no place in one of the world's most challenging, high-stakes environments. Shell Oil, which is ready to take a dangerous drilling gamble in the Arctic's icy waters, should take note.

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Shell Tramples Our Civil Rights -- to Do More Dangerous Drilling

Philip Radford | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Alaska, Greenpeace, Global Warming, Climate Change, Dirty Oil, Artic Drilling, Shell Oil, Green News

Rather than seeing melting sea ice for what it really is -- a flashing warning sign of continental proportions -- this increasingly desperate company wants to drill for more of the fossil fuel that is causing the problem in the first place.

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Shell Game

Michael Brune | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Oil, Gas Prices, Arctic, Shell Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Sierra Club, Sierra Club, Shell Lawsuit, Green News

Shell wants a judge to block challenges to its drilling plans that no one's even made yet. The real message to anyone who believes America's Polar Bear Seas just might not be the smartest place to start drilling oil wells: get out of the way, there's money to be made.

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Supreme Court Expands Corporate Human Rights Case, Avoids Corporate Liability Question

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Video, Human Rights, 2nd-Circuit, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporations, Reargument, Nigeria, US-Extraterritoriality, International Law, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Shell Oil, Politics News

The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon took the unusual action of ordering reargument in the case heard last week that has been brought against a multi...

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'Green News Report' - March 1, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Canada, Climate Scientists, Tar Sands, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Republicans, Agriculture, Arctic Ice Melt, Michael Mann, Coal, Chicago, Tornadoes, Fema, Royal Dutch Shell, Midwest Generation, Utilities, Barack Obama, Shell Oil, Arctic, Dirty Coal, Koch Brothers, Keystone XL Pipeline, Food, Extreme Weather, Green News

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Partnering With Oil Co. To Save Island?

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Video, Shamrock Island, Shell Oil Nature Conservancy, Nature Conservancy, Shell, Oil Companies, Ap, Shell Oil, Green News

ARANSAS PASS, Texas (AP) — An eroding Texas island where more than 20,000 birds nest in scraggly trees and on a narrow patch of sand will be built b...

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Supreme Court Looks Ready To Grant Corporate Immunity In Human Rights Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, US Supreme Court, Video, 2nd-Circuit, Human Rights, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporations, Nigeria, International Law, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Shell Oil, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning appeared divided along party lines, with a conservative majority ready to hold that corporations ca...

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Corporate Personhood Case Forces Justices To Hack New Path

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Video, Human Rights, 2nd-Circuit, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporations, Nigeria, International Law, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Shell Oil, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether corporations, like real people, can be held liable in American ...

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Oil Giant Reaches Tentative Deal With Union

AP | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: United Steel Workers Union, Video, Shell United Steelworkers Deal, Oil Giants, Labor-News, Business News, Organized Labor, Unions, Labor Unions, Shell Oil, Business News

DALLAS -- The United Steelworkers union and Shell Oil have as announced a tentative deal on a new three-year contract covering Shell refinery workers ...

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'Green News Report' - January 17, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Nigeria, Regulation, Conservation, Green News Report, Pollution, Methane, Tar Sands, Video, Oil Spill, Germany, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Environmentalism, State Department, Barack Obama, Toxic Chemicals, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Fish, Green News, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Nasa, Nome Alaska, Costa Concordia Tragedy, Italy, Pipeline, Canada, Soot, Chevron, Cruises, Subsidies, Coast Guard, Arctic, Shell Oil, Logging, Fox News, Pesticides, Economy, Coal, Colony Collapse Disorder, Richard Trumka, Bees, West Virginia, Green News

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EPA Board Rejects Appeal Of Shell Arctic permit

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Energy, Arctic Drilling, Video, Shell Arctic Drilling, Shell Arctic Exploratory Wells, Royal Dutch Shell, Epa, Shell Arctic Permit, Arctic Oil Drilling, Ap, Arctic, Shell Oil, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell's quest to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters has received a boost with the affirmation that its fe...

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'Green News Report' - December 22, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Epa, Arctic Ice Melt, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Power Plants, Green News Report, Pollution, Climategate, Coal, Methane, Offshore Drilling, Video, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Americans for Prosperity, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Tea Party, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalism, Permafrost, State Department, Shell Oil, Arctic, Toxic Chemicals, Energy Efficiency, Media Matters, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Water, Keystone XL Pipeline, Mercury, Green News, Toxic Waste, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Lisa Jackson, Africa, Plastic, Occupy, Genetically Modified Foods, Factory Farming, Famine, Gmos, China, Salmon, Nigeria, Innovation, Drought, Toxic Water, Texas, Arsenic, Occupy Wall Street, Green News

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'Green News Report' - December 20, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: John Boehner, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Radiation, Methane, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Video, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Americans for Prosperity, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Tea Party, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Carbon Emissions, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Water, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Toxic Waste, Japan, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Power Plants, Light Bulbs, Philippines, Offshore Drilling, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Rush Limbaugh, Shell Oil, Energy Efficiency, Media Matters, Mercury, ABC News, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Arctic Ice Melt, Corn Sugar, Climategate, Corn, Permafrost, Arctic, Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Green News

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