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Shell Wins Federal Approval To Drill For Oil Off Alaska Coast

Washington Post | Steven Mufson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Camden Bay, Leases, Beaufort Sea, Shell, Point Thompson Alaska, Open-Water Drilling, Mms, Exxon Valdez, Point Thompson, Sierra Club, Oil Drilling, Minerals Management Service, Alaska Coast, Drilling, Oil, Permits, Alaska, Interior Department, Green News

The Interior Department has given Shell approval to drill oil exploration wells in two leaseholds in the Beaufort Sea, which could lead to the first d...

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Beware the Sirens of Big Oil

Riki Ott | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Alaska-Drilling, Big Oil Profits, Big Oil, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mobil, Green News
Riki Ott

My advice to coastal residents in the Lower 48: Take heed. We learned the hard way that Big Oil's promises were good only until authorizing laws were passed and permits approved.

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California's Budget Crisis Turns Out to Be Great for Oil Companies. Weird.

Chris Kelly | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Budget, California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Budget Crisis, Santa Barbara Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez, Politics News
Chris Kelly

We may never go to the moon again, but thanks to last night's California budget compromise, we're going to be drilling off Santa Barbara again. Who says America can't accomplish things anymore?

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Green News Report - July 2, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Exxon Mobil, Epa, Green News Report, Exxon Valdez, Bush Administration, Waxman-Markey, California Emissions Standards, Green News, Environment, Fox News, Coal Ash, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Food Recall, Gray Wolves Endangered Species, Forests, Republicans, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California wins one for a change; Where's the beef? Recalled!; Did EPA suppress study from global warming skeptic?... PLUS:...

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150 Years

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Crime, Bhopal, Alien Tort Claims Act, Exxon, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Victims, Climate Change, Big Tobacco, Exxon Valdez, Business News
Robert Weissman

The 150-year sentence is headline grabbing, but what should surprise us is not that Madoff got such a long sentence, but that other corporate criminals escape with no criminal prosecution at all.

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Court Orders $507.5 Million Damages In Exxon Valdez Spill

AP | MARK THIESSEN | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Exxon, Pollution, Exxon Valdez, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Exxon Mobil Corp. was ordered Monday to pay about $500 million in interest on punitive damages for the Exxon Valdez oil spil...

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Some Oil Companies are More Eco Friendly: Who's Fuelling Your Summer Drives?

Starre Vartan | Posted 06.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Oil, Sunoco, Electric Cars, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, Shell Oil, Green News
Starre Vartan

Turns out there's a significant difference in how environmentally-friendly (or not) the oil companies are, and why shouldn't that info impact my decision about where to spend my money.

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An Industry Drunken with Profits

Javier Sierra | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Latinos, Energy, Double Hulls, Lobbying, Green, Obama, Clean Energy, Hispanics, Pollution, Shipping, Exxon Valdez, Oil Spill, Environment, Prince William Sound, Alaska, Oceans, Green News
Javier Sierra

Exxon has long ago turned the page on Valdez spill twenty years ago. However, for the Alaska residents, especially the fishermen, the nightmare continues.

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Drain, Baby Drain! 6 Million Gallons of Crude Oil at the Base of Erupting Volcano Could be Alaska's Next Exxon Valdez

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Alaska Volcano, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Mt Redoubt, Chevron, Exxon, Cook Inlet, Cook Inlet Belugas, Big Oil, Palin, Mt. Redoubt Oil, Volcano, Sarah Palin, Cook Inletkeeper, Exxon Valdez, Anchorage-Alaska, Green News
Jeanne Devon (

On its 20th anniversary, we all relive the human and environmental tragedy that was the Exxon Valdez oil spill. But today, right now, Alaska faces down another threat.

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The Captain May Be Sober Now, but Big Oil Is Still on a Binge

Carl Pope | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Oil, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez, Oil, Green News
Carl Pope

Until this industrial ecology changes, the idea of clean oil company will remain an oxymoron.

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Three Lessons We Still Haven't Learned 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

J.S. McDougall | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spill, Oil Spill, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Oil, Exxon Profits, TVA Disaster, Exxon Valdez, Dr. Riki Ott, Exxon Valdez Anniversary, Cordova/Alaska, Green News
J.S. McDougall

Take a 10 minute break today, on the anniversary of one of the most tragic--and still unresolved--environmental disasters of our modern energy age to reflect on three lessons.

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Exxon Spill -- 20 Years of Tears

Shannyn Moore | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Exxon, Exxon-Mobil, Alaska, Exxon Valdez 20th Anniversary, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Cordova, Exxon Valdez, Sarah Palin, Green News
Shannyn Moore

Sarah Palin failed to use the national stage to plead Alaskan's case to citizens who had long forgotten the images of a once pristine Prince William Sound turned into a thick, black, rolling sea.

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Slow Down -- Speed is So Yesterday

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Distraction, Gordon Brown, Add, Recession, Economy, Exhaustion, Cnbc, Bbc, Blackberry, Fast Company, Exxon Valdez, Business News
Margaret Heffernan

If the current downturn means that we all slow down a little, that may turn out to be the smartest strategy of all. Because the economy surely can't recover until we do.

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The Human Cost of Bush's Arctic Policy

Riki Ott | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Green News, Corporate Power, Oil, Corporate Greed, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mobil, Green News
Riki Ott

Why should the Inupiat way of life be sacrificed for our oil dependency? The Arctic should be off limits to oil and gas development.

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Crimes at the Top of the World: The Human Cost of Oil

Riki Ott | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Corporate Power, Corporate Greed, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Valdez, Green News
Riki Ott

Why don't we all learn more about Bush's U.S. Arctic Policy along with Inupiat children like Ricky? If the Alaska story "went into you," maybe you could help protect our coasts along with yours.

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Upping Arianna's Ante: Pledge to be Unreasonable

Riki Ott | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Personhood Amendments, Corporate Personhood, 28th Amendment, Corporation, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Valdez, Separation of Corporation and State, Green News
Riki Ott

Pledge to engage -- with your neighbors, at your workplace, school, or church. Pledge to put the planet and future generations first when making everyday decisions.

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Exxon Valdez Survivor To Tennessee Coal Sludge Victims: Get Everything In Writing

Riki Ott | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Tennessee Coal Ash, Water, Pollution, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Exxon Valdez, Tennessee Coal Spill, Green News

Open letter to Tennessee communities harmed by the coal ash spill By Riki Ott CORDOVA, Alaska -- I am sorry for your losses. These simple words wer...

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Exxon Valdez Payments Finally Start Coming In

Anchorage Daily News | WESLEY LOY | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Exxon Valdez Lawsuit, Exxon Valdez Payments, Exxon Valdez, Green News

The millions of dollars Exxon Mobil Corp. has surrendered as punishment for the Prince William Sound oil spill have started hitting the streets, nearl...

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The Oil Still Polluting Alaska, 20 Years After Exxon Valdez (VIDEO)

J.S. McDougall | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, 28th Amendment, Separation of Corporation and State, Dr. Riki Ott, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Valdez, Green News
J.S. McDougall

The Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in the Prince William Sound on March 24th, 1989. Over the next three days, three-thousand miles of Alaska's coastl...

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"Fisherma'am" Proposes 28th Amendment: Separation Of Corporation And State

Chelsea Green | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Video, Corporations, 28th Amendment, ExxonMobil Profits, Corporate Greed, Oil, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Oil Profits, Corporatocracy, Exxon Valdez, Dr. Riki Ott, Green News

Every so often an idea comes along that rings with such clarity and purpose that it ignites the imaginations of millions of people. That spark of exci...

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19 Years And Waiting: Exxon Valdez Payments Delayed Again

AP | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Exxon Valdez, Prince William Sound, Oil, Oil Spill, Pollution, Exxon Valdez Payments, Exxon Valdez Appeal, Exxon Valdez Reparations, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Prince William Sound commercial fishermen have waited 19 years for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the nation'...

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Game. Set. Match. Obama.

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Litmus Test, Supreme Court, John McCain, John Paul Roberts, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Exxon Valdez, Habeas Corpus, Us Constitution, Roe v. Wade, Katie Couric, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Samuel Alito, Military Commissions Act of 2006, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

McCain's outright mockery of the health and life of the mother as being a legitimate reason for termination was deplorable. How dare he!?

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Connect the Dots: See the Real Costs of Our Oil Dependency, More Oil is Not the Answer

Riki Ott | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Supreme Court, Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mobil, Green News
Riki Ott

Cordova, Alaska. The other night I biked over to the home of Linden and Kevin "Sam" O'Toole to watch the CNN Anderson Cooper 360º story on the Exxon ...

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Right-Wing Supreme Court Draws Ire Of Senate Judiciary Committee

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Rights, Supreme Court, Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Exxon Mobil, Mandatory Binding Arbitration, Tracy Barker, Exxon Valdez, Liberties, Roberts Court, Fraud, Senate, Haliburton, Securities, Hearings, National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, Justice, Arbitration, Home News
Cristóbal Joshua Alex

The Supreme Court has shifted dangerously to the right and is now the most pro-business Court since the monopoly greasing "Lochner-era" Court of the late 19th century.

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Exxon Balks At Paying $488 Million In Interest On Valdez Spill Damages

McClatchy Newspapers | Erika Bolstad | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Environment, Exxon Valdez Interest, Exxon Valdez Damage, Exxon Valdex Payments, ExxonMobil Corporation, Exxon Valdez, Business News

ExxonMobil has balked at paying $488 million in interest on punitive damages that plaintiffs say it owes for its role in the 1989 Prince William Sound...

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