Whistleblower Says BP Intentionally Left Oil Debris on Gulf Coast Beaches Then Falsified Cleanup Reports
Warning: You may want to hold off on booking that Gulf Coast vacation – because the beaches aren’t as clean or safe as official reports indicate. According to a whistleblower lawsuit filed in New Orleans, BP cleanup crews intentionally left oil debris on Mississippi beaches while company officials falsely reported that the areas were adequately cleaned. (So much for public safety.) The lawsuit alleges that BP fired August Walter Jr. [...]
Read More »A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Fracked-Off: Gas Extraction ‘Causes Quakes’
U.S. to Sell 38 Mln Acres in Gulf of Mexico for Oil Drilling
Take a Look Inside a Fukushima Nuclear Reactor [VIDEO]
Read More »A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Is The Booming Natural Gas Industry Overproducing?
Master Plan Forgets Bayou Communities, Residents Say
Japan Task Force Kept No Records of Nuclear Crisis Response
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A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Groups Rally For Fracking Bills in NY State
Whistleblower Says BP Fired Him for Refusing To Skew Cleanup Data
Japanese Government Concealing Facts About Fukushima
Read More »It’s official: The White House engaged in an aggressive campaign to pressure scientists into drastically underestimating the initial size of the BP oil spill – a campaign that impacted the scope, speed and overall effectiveness of the response. There are also legal ramifications, as fines are to be levied against BP based on how much oil is estimated to have been released into the Gulf of Mexico. Here’s how Mother [...]
Read More »Children on the Gulf Coast are falling ill in record numbers. Children who never had health problems before the BP oil spill are suffering from an array of debilitating ailments from chronic bronchitis to staph infections to acute sinusitis to mysterious “stomach viruses.” The ranks of the sick continue to climb, overwhelming doctors and clinics up and down the Gulf Coast. And to make matters worse, few treatments and medications [...]
Read More »A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
EPA Finally Supplies Drinking Water to Pennsylvania Fracking Victims
Report: White House Pressured Scientists to Underestimate BP Spill Size
First Images From Within Fukushima Containment
Read More »A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster:
Fracked: The Debate Over Shale Gas Deepens
Japan Still Pushing Nuclear Power
Read More »BP’s business prospects are soaring. In fact, 2011 was the British oil giant’s best “business development” year in three decades. It’s inconceivable, infuriating, repugnant – but true, nonetheless. While parts of the Gulf Coast remain soaked in BP’s oil, the British petroleum giant has been rewarded with scores of new drilling contracts – 80 to be exact, in 11 countries. And get this, the majority of the “exploration prospects” are [...]
Read More »It’s been called the worst environmental crime ever perpetrated, anywhere in the world. Billions of gallons of toxic oil-drilling waste indiscriminately dumped into pristine Amazon waterways used for drinking, fishing and bathing by tens of thousands of Ecuadorians. Three decades of “deliberate” contamination laid waste to an expanse of lush rainforest comparable to the size of Rhode Island. Today, noxious pools of oily sludge still drain into local rivers and [...]
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