Environment

Former BP Engineer Releases Emails From Wake of Gulf Oil Disaster

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Farron Cousins for DeSmogBlog
December 12, 2012 - 5:03pm
Kurt Mix is the first person in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and leak to be brought up on criminal charges for his role in the cover-up of the extent of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Farron Cousins
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DeSmogBlog

Rep. Markey Wants to Know Why Shell's Containment Dome Crushed Like a Beer Can in Puget Sound

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Kevin Grandia for DeSmogBlog
December 5, 2012 - 8:00pm
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass), penned a letter to Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, looking for answers about a Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) containment dome that "crushed like a beer can" in tests earlier this Fall.
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Kevin Grandia
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DeSmogBlog

NJ Bridge Collapses for Second Time in Four Years

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Chaz Bolte for We Party Patriots
December 5, 2012 - 9:03am
A picture is worth a thousand words. And sometimes, it’s also worth several hundred gallons of toxic chemicals.
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Chaz Bolte
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We Party Patriots

Balmy December Weather Could Be Result of Global Warming

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DocHoc for Blue Oklahoma
December 3, 2012 - 9:20am
As I sit here writing this in the Oklahoma City area on this early December afternoon, the temperature is in the high 60s and rising, and the National Weather Service is predicting a high for the day around 78 degrees. Yesterday, the high temperatures recorded at Will Rogers Airport broke the previous high record for December 1 in Oklahoma City of 76 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
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DocHoc
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Blue Oklahoma

The Oil Industry is the Enemy

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Sam Seder for The Majority Report
November 30, 2012 - 5:20pm

Bill McKibben explained the Do the Math tour, the new evolution of climate activism, the fossil fuel divestment movement, the good news from Germany, why global climate talks are irrelevant until we break the power of the fossil fuel industry, and what's coming next.
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Sam Seder
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The Majority Report

Brief History of the English and Indian Populations in ME

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Ojibwa for Native American Netroots
November 30, 2012 - 2:00pm
In 1606, guided by the Discovery Doctrine which declared that Christian nations had the right to conquer and rule all non-Christian nations, England gave a Royal Charter to the Virginia Company to develop a market in the New World for English commerce and for "Propagating of Christian Religion to such people, as yet live in darkness." The charter characterized Indians as living "in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God."
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Ojibwa
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Native American Netroots

Traditional Whaling Continues Along the US Pacific Coast

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Ojibwa for Native American Netroots
November 30, 2012 - 11:30am
The area along the Pacific Coast north of California and between the Cascade Mountains and the ocean is the home to many Indian nations who traditionally based their economy on the use of sea coast and river ecological resources. This is an area which stretches from the Tlingit homelands in Alaska to the Tolowa homelands in northern California.
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Ojibwa
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Native American Netroots

Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill

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Abrahm Lustgarten for ProPublica
November 29, 2012 - 12:00pm
Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill
BP has been criminally convicted in four previous cases — including a 2005 explosion in Texas that killed 15 workers — and the EPA has been considering broader debarment proceedings against the company since at least 2005. The agency had actually been nearing a decision on a contract ban in January 2010, just a few months before the Deepwater Horizon tragedy unfolded, killing 11 workers and sending more than 200 million gallons of oil into the sea.
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Abrahm Lustgarten
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ProPublica

New Report: Coal Plants Disproportionately Impact Communities Of Color

Scott Parkin for The Understory
November 27, 2012 - 10:40am
Of the 378 coal plants across the country, 75 are considered to be the most toxic and receive an “F” on the report’s environmental justice report card. Four million people live within three miles of those plants. In fact, some 78 percent of African-Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant.
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Scott Parkin
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The Understory

New Enbridge Spill Near Chicago Continues Company's 'Pattern of Failures'

Carol Linnitt for DeSmogBlog
November 27, 2012 - 9:50am
Enbridge was forced to shut down one of its pipelines last week after 900 barrels of crude oil leaked at the Mokena tank farm near Chicago. The leak was discovered on Tuesday of last week although its cause remained undisclosed until this morning, when the Mokena fire department cited a hole in a 20-inch pipeline.
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Carol Linnitt
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DeSmogBlog

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