Environment

Alberta Government Denied and Ignored Studies Linking Oil Sands Industry to Rising Carcinogen Levels

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Jeff Gailus for DeSmogBlog
January 11, 2013 - 2:03pm
Alberta Government Denied and Ignored Studies Linking Oil Sands Industry to Rising Carcinogen Levels
Tar sands development has been contributing dangerous, carcinogenic pollutants to the watershed in Canada since large-scale oil sands production began in 1978, and they are steadily rising.
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Jeff Gailus
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DeSmogBlog

Drill Ship with 155,000 Gallons of Fuel Runs Aground in Gulf of Alaska

UpTakeVideo for UpTakeVideo
January 1, 2013 - 9:22pm
Stormy weather broke the the Kulluk drill ship away from its tow ropes and within hours it had run aground. The Coast Guard safely evacuated 18 crew members from the ship and is now watching for any spills. The Kulluk has has about 155,000 gallons of fuel on board according to Coast Guard Commander Shane Montoya.
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UpTakeVideo
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UpTakeVideo

Physics Professor: Last Decade ‘Hottest 10 Years Ever Recorded’

Rob Tornoe for The Contributor
December 27, 2012 - 3:10pm
As coastal areas in the Northeast continue to struggle in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, one professor thinks a larger trend in climate change reveals these 100-year storms will become more frequent over the next century - and more deadly.
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Rob Tornoe
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The Contributor

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

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