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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Palin's Oily Lies Drip from the Pages of Going Rogue

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Lies, Alaska, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon v Baker, Exxon, Fact Check, Greg Palast, Katie Couric, Oil Spill Settlement, Going Rogue, Reality Deficit Disorder, Health Care, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

Alaska's willingness to do business with Exxon was like having your parents rent the basement to the guy who date raped you on prom night. Now Palin is claiming victory for the people of Alaska? Reality Deficit Disorder, now in book form.

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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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Exxon To Pay Interest On Valdez Oil Spill Damages

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Exxon, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Valdez Oil Spill, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. has decided not to appeal hundreds of millions of dollars in interest on punitive damages result...

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Green News Report - June 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Big Oil, Tennessee Coal Ash, Waxman-Markey, Uranium Mining, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Green News, Climate Change, Food Recall, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT:: Saving the planet on less than 50 cents a day!; Energy companies sued for conspiracy; Do not ask for whom the Toll House co...

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Palin Matchmakes For a Gasline; A Deal With The Devil

Shannyn Moore | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Irwin, Governor Palin, Agia, Sarah Palin, Exxon, Transcanda, North Slope Gasline, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

Governor Sarah Palin is sleeping with the enemy of many Alaskans. Her trip to Texas to discuss a merged project with TransCanada and Exxon Mobil betrays Alaskans.

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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
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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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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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Oil Vey! Exxon's Capitol Hill Shaming

Doug Kendall | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Oil Drilling, Republican Congressmen, Mississippi Oil Spill, Big Oil, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Mobil, Green News
Doug Kendall

The people of Alaska are still feeling the financial impact of the spill nearly 20 years later, long after the three-year period covered by compensatory damages in the case.

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When Harm Goes Unpunished: Why Congress Should Overturn the Supreme Court's Exxon Valdez Decision

Riki Ott | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Exxon, Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Not One Drop, Cordova, Chelsea Green, Exxonmobil, Riki Ott, Supreme Court, Alaska, ExxonMobil Corporation, Fishermen, Environment, Green News
Riki Ott

No community should have to go through what we have been through. Livelihoods have been lost, financial stress has broken families apart, and businesses supported by fishermen have crumbled.

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Court Spares Exxon $2 Billion In Damages From Valdez Spill

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Exxon Mobil, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Supreme Court Rules on Exxon, Supreme Court, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million, a deci...

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14 Years Later, Exxon Still Has Not Paid For Valdez Oil Spill

Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Alaska, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez, Politics News

When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez...

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