Oil Spill
North Slope Oil Spill: Leak In Alaska Among Worst Ever (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green
AP reports on a massive oil spill on the North Slope -- among the worst ever in the region: A North Slope spill of an estimated 46,000 gallons was ca...
Massive Oil Spill Threatens East Timor (VIDEO)
CBS News | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
CBS News: A damaged derrick in the Timor Sea pours huge quantities of oil into the water. From Real Clear World...
How Trudie Styler Is Winning Hearts and Minds at ... Chevron?
Michael Brune | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
As Joe Berlinger's Crude continues to rack up favorable reviews, a captivating email back-and-forth has been revealed between Trudie Styler and executives at Chevron.
HuffPost Review: Crude
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
The wheels of justice turn slowly in Ecuador, and in a country plagued with corruption and weak institutions, including the judiciary, it's easy for the oil companies to get their way.
All Ships Near California's Coast Must Now Use Cleaner Fuel
treehugger.com | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
A Californian regulation mandating that all ocean-going vessels within 24 miles of the state's coast must use cleaner burning low-sulfur diesel fuel i...
Intentional Oil Spill Defendants Plead Guilty
AP | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green
BRADFORD, Pa. — A northwestern Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to intentionally releasing thousands of gallons of oil into two streams becau...
UPDATEDPalin & Chevron; Spill Disaster in the Making UPDATED
Shannyn Moore | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green
After months of seismic activity, rumblings, and belches, why are 6 million gallons of oil still sitting at the base of the Mt. Redoubt Volcano in Alaska?
An Industry Drunken with Profits
Javier Sierra | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green
Exxon has long ago turned the page on Valdez spill twenty years ago. However, for the Alaska residents, especially the fishermen, the nightmare continues.
Three Lessons We Still Haven't Learned 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
J.S. McDougall | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green
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.
Australian Oil Spill Destroys Wildlife, Raises Questions
AP | DENNIS PASSA | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green
BRISBANE, Australia — Nearly 40 miles of Australian beaches have been blackened by oil spilled from a cargo ship caught in stormy seas this week...
Russian Island Wonders "When, Not If An Oil Spill Will Happen"
AFP | Alexander Osipovich | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green
"It is a question of when, not if, an oil spill will happen on Sakhalin," said Leah Zimmerman, head of Russia programmes at Pacific Environment, a US-...
Chevron's Oil - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Alaskan Sea.
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
Ask yourself why the State of Alaska is not defending your right to know how much oil Chevron has at the base of a volcano that's about to erupt.
Activists Call Offshore Drilling "Flirting With Disaster"
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Environmental advocates urged Congress on Wednesday to reinstate the broad moratorium on offshore oil drilling, but a key congressm...
Des Plaines River Oil Spill: Caterpillar Tank Spills 65,000 Gallons Of Oil Sludge Near Joliet
AP | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago
ROCKDALE, Ill. — The Environmental Protection Agency says cleaning up an oil spill along the Des Plaines river in suburban Chicago will take two...
California's Jerry Brown Sues Over 2007 San Francisco Bay Oil Spill
AP | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green
SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars to recover the clean-up cost of the mass...
South Korean Oil Spill Captain Jailed
Agence France Press | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green
A court Wednesday jailed the Indian captain and chief officer of a Hong Kong supertanker after ruling they were partly to blame for South Korea's wors...
19 Years And Waiting: Exxon Valdez Payments Delayed Again
AP | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Prince William Sound commercial fishermen have waited 19 years for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the nation'...
Spill, Baby, Spill!
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
The scary thing is that the Republicans want more. Even after it's obvious the realities of "drill, baby, drill" are "spill, baby, spill", they still want more.
200 Penguins Die In Brazil Oil Slick
AP | MICHAEL ASTOR | Posted 09.29.2008 | Green
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — More than 200 oil-slicked penguins have washed up dead on the beaches of a popular Brazilian resort, and officials say ...
Don't Cry Over Spilled Oil: McCain's Drilling Rig Do-Over
Josh Dorner | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green
Whether it's because of the 30 or so oil industry lobbyists working on his campaign or the more than $2 million in campaign cash from Big Oil, McCain is determined to push his drill here, drill there, drill everywhere plan.
Connect the Dots: See the Real Costs of Our Oil Dependency, More Oil is Not the Answer
Riki Ott | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green
Cordova, Alaska. The other night I biked over to the home of Linden and Kevin "Sam" O'Toole to watch the CNN Anderson Cooper 360ยบ story on the Exxon ...
Friday Talking Points [40] -- Obama Shines, McCain Whines
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Be careful what you wish for, John. That seems to be the message of the week for Senator John McCain. He took some campaign consultant's idea a few w...
Oil of Delay: McCain Cancels Louisiana Trip After Barge Spill
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
McCain had been planning to visit an offshore rig on this New Orleans junket, but it's not the image a presidential candidate wants in the middle of an environmental nightmare.
Oil Spill Shuts Mississippi River
Reuters | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A collision between a chemical tanker and a fuel barge on the Mississippi River spilled over 400,000 gallons of fuel oil and promp...
Posted 12.25.2009 | Green