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In a recent Washington Post editorial supporting oil industry efforts to lift the existing ban on exporting crude oil produced in America, the editors stated:“The most serious objection to lifting the ban comes from environmentalists who worry that it would lower fossil fuel prices and lead to more oil consumption.”

After generations of state control, Mexico’s vast oil and gas reserves will soon open for business to the international market. In December 2013, Mexico’s Congress voted to break up the longstanding monopoly held by the state-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos — commonly called Pemex — and to open the nation’s oil and gas reserves to foreign companies.

Nicole Gibs was serving a table at Lynchburg's Depot Grille across the tracks along the James River when she heard a train that sounded even louder than usual. When she looked up, she saw several train cars wobbling, and then one fell over, immediately sparking a fire.

The U.S. and allied forces launched the ongoing occupation in Iraq and occupy large swaths of the Middle East to secure the flow of oil to the U.S. and its global allies, explained Blair.

Last month a small but vocal group gathered on the steps of Seattle's city hall to demand greater restrictions on the controversial transportation of oil by railway tanker through the Northwest. This was the latest action in the larger movement of opposition to trains carrying fossil fuels through Washington.

A federal judge delivered a court victory to Chevron on Tuesday, ruling that a U.S. lawyer had engaged in "corrupt means" to obtain a multi-billion dollar judgment in 2011 against the oil giant for its decades of pollution in Ecuador.

A new The Guardian expose has uncovered ALEC's 2014 agenda: a host of programs and lobbying efforts designed to promote their big oil backers, and disrupt or repeal a number of necessary, environmentally conscious policies and regulations currently in place.

To the alarm of environmental groups, oil giant Shell announced on Thursday it was making plans to be able to resume the hunt for oil in Arctic waters in 2014. "Our focus would be very much on the Chukchi [Sea], which is by far the biggest prize; that is the multi-billion barrel prize."

Crews have contained a giant oil spill originating from a Koch Pipeline about 40 miles from Austin, Texas, but not before it spilled 17,000 gallons of oil. According to a report from KVUE, the oil came from an eight-inch diameter pipeline after it sprung a leak.