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us/Federal Judge Tosses Dakota Access Pipeline Permits, Orders Full Environmental Review
By Sharon Kelly
on
Today, a federal judge tossed out federal permits for the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), built to carry over half a million barrels of Bakken crude oil a day from North Dakota, and ordered the U.S....
A roughneck in a red hard hat operates the pipe ramp on the oil rig Citadel Rig 6.
us/Op-Ed: The US Must Protect Communities and Workers But We Need Our Leaders to Stop Bending to the Oil and Gas Industry
By Guest
on
By Megan Milliken Biven Imagine a sovereign nation with nearly 29 million citizens and the eleventh largest economy in the world. Now imagine that this nation’s legislature only met to represent i...
Tullow Oil Leaves Destitution and Environmental Concerns Amid Broken Promises in Kenya
By Maina Waruru
on
Since he left his job with a local engineering company contracted by Tullow Oil to install drilling rigs, Erastus Ekeno has been running a pub, selling food and drinks to residents and visitors to ...
us/As Coronavirus Worsened, Trump Admin Pushed Offshore Drilling and Gas Exports
By Steve Horn
on
With major cities and states issuing stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases have swept throughout the United States, the Trump Administration opened the floodgates for more offshore drilling and ...
us/North Dakota’s Carbon Capture Project Tundra Another “Expensive Greenwashing” Attempt to Bail Out Coal Power
By Laura Peterson
on
Carbon capture technology has generated a lot of controversy–but little private investment–due to its lack of profitability and efficiency. So why is a proposal to retrofit an aging coal-powered pl...
us/Coal Industry Group Asks Federal Lawmakers to Cut Funding for Black Lung Program, Citing COVID-19
By Sharon Kelly
on
The National Mining Association (NMA) on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump and federal lawmakers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by cutting a tax used to support coal miners affected b...
uk/‘Our Community Has Been Suffering’: Total Abandons Nigerian Hospital Built as Compensation for Gas Pipeline Explosion
By Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi
on
Ohiauga, a remote village in Nigeria, needs a hospital. Seven years ago, it almost got one.  In 2012, the oil and gas company Total E&P Nigeria, a subsidiary of Total SA, promised to build a moder...
Shell's Latest Annual Report: More Greenwashing?
By Dana Drugmand
on
Two years after internal documents surfaced showing that Royal Dutch Shell, like ExxonMobil, knew about climate dangers decades ago, the oil giant released its latest annual report outlining its bu...
us/A Faltering Fracking Industry, on the Verge of a Bailout, Mixes Patriotism and Oil in the Permian
By Julie Dermansky
on
Signs equating patriotism with the oil and gas industry are abundant in the Permian Basin, one of the United States’ most prolific oil and natural gas plays.  There, the messages on billboards, tr...
A compressor station along newly constructed pipeline
us/Exxon Now Wants to Write the Rules for Regulating Methane Emissions
By Justin Mikulka
on
ExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own efforts to do so. And while the oil g...

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us/Federal Judge Tosses Dakota Access Pipeline Permits, Orders Full Environmental Review
BySharon Kelly
on

Today, a federal judge tossed out federal permits for the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), built to carry over half a million barrels of Bakken crude oil a day from North Dakota, and ordered the U.S....
Series: Dakota Access: Energy Transfer Partners Bakken Oil Pipeline
Series: Dakota Access Pipeline Battle
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us/Op-Ed: The US Must Protect Communities and Workers But We Need Our Leaders to Stop Bending to the Oil and Gas Industry
ByGuest
on

By Megan Milliken Biven Imagine a sovereign nation with nearly 29 million citizens and the eleventh largest economy in the world. Now imagine that this nation’s legislature only met to represent i...
A roughneck in a red hard hat operates the pipe ramp on the oil rig Citadel Rig 6.
Tullow Oil Leaves Destitution and Environmental Concerns Amid Broken Promises in Kenya
ByMaina Waruru
on

Since he left his job with a local engineering company contracted by Tullow Oil to install drilling rigs, Erastus Ekeno has been running a pub, selling food and drinks to residents and visitors to ...
Series: British Company Tullow Oil Exploiting Africa’s Resources and People
Series: British Company Tullow Oil Exploiting Africa’s Resources and People
us/As Coronavirus Worsened, Trump Admin Pushed Offshore Drilling and Gas Exports
BySteve Horn
on

With major cities and states issuing stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases have swept throughout the United States, the Trump Administration opened the floodgates for more offshore drilling and ...
us/North Dakota’s Carbon Capture Project Tundra Another “Expensive Greenwashing” Attempt to Bail Out Coal Power
ByLaura Peterson
on

Carbon capture technology has generated a lot of controversy–but little private investment–due to its lack of profitability and efficiency. So why is a proposal to retrofit an aging coal-powered pl...
us/Coal Industry Group Asks Federal Lawmakers to Cut Funding for Black Lung Program, Citing COVID-19
BySharon Kelly
on

The National Mining Association (NMA) on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump and federal lawmakers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by cutting a tax used to support coal miners affected b...
uk/‘Our Community Has Been Suffering’: Total Abandons Nigerian Hospital Built as Compensation for Gas Pipeline Explosion
ByElfredah Kevin-Alerechi
on

Ohiauga, a remote village in Nigeria, needs a hospital. Seven years ago, it almost got one.  In 2012, the oil and gas company Total E&P Nigeria, a subsidiary of Total SA, promised to build a moder...
Shell's Latest Annual Report: More Greenwashing?
ByDana Drugmand
on

Two years after internal documents surfaced showing that Royal Dutch Shell, like ExxonMobil, knew about climate dangers decades ago, the oil giant released its latest annual report outlining its bu...
us/A Faltering Fracking Industry, on the Verge of a Bailout, Mixes Patriotism and Oil in the Permian
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Signs equating patriotism with the oil and gas industry are abundant in the Permian Basin, one of the United States’ most prolific oil and natural gas plays.  There, the messages on billboards, tr...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
us/Exxon Now Wants to Write the Rules for Regulating Methane Emissions
ByJustin Mikulka
on

ExxonMobil is a company capable of contradictions. It has been lobbying against government efforts to address climate change while running ads touting its own efforts to do so. And while the oil g...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
A compressor station along newly constructed pipeline