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Byย Gunnar W. Schade, Texas A&Mย University If youโ€™ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, youโ€™ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical p...
Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove t...
A New England-based environmental law group is taking major oil companiesย to court, claiming the firms have failedย to adapt some of their petroleum storage terminals to withstand increasingly sever...
Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to โ€œviolence against Indigenous peoples and natureโ€ as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumesย today.ย  The Kichwa and Shuar tribes ...
When I arrived on Sunday, August 9, scores of tiny plastic pellets lined the sandy bank of the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans,ย Louisiana, where they glistened in the sun, not far fro...
Asย California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals,ย one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against thisย energy transition,ย even ...
More than a decade ago, fracking took off in the Bakken shale of North Dakota and Montana, but the oil rush that followed has resulted in major environmental damage, risky oil transportation ...
More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
Yesterday, President Trump left Midland, Texas, after arriving in the stateโ€™s Permian oilfield region for a $2,800 a plate luncheon and a โ€œroundtableโ€ that required each participant to pony upย $100...

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Byย Gunnar W. Schade, Texas A&Mย University If youโ€™ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, youโ€™ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical p...
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Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove t...
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A New England-based environmental law group is taking major oil companiesย to court, claiming the firms have failedย to adapt some of their petroleum storage terminals to withstand increasingly sever...
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Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to โ€œviolence against Indigenous peoples and natureโ€ as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumesย today.ย  The Kichwa and Shuar tribes ...
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When I arrived on Sunday, August 9, scores of tiny plastic pellets lined the sandy bank of the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans,ย Louisiana, where they glistened in the sun, not far fro...
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Asย California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals,ย one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against thisย energy transition,ย even ...
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More than a decade ago, fracking took off in the Bakken shale of North Dakota and Montana, but the oil rush that followed has resulted in major environmental damage, risky oil transportation ...
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More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
on

With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
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Yesterday, President Trump left Midland, Texas, after arriving in the stateโ€™s Permian oilfield region for a $2,800 a plate luncheon and a โ€œroundtableโ€ that required each participant to pony upย $100...