Union Pacific Railroad Company will pay $1.5 million for six alleged oil spills in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and for three coal spills in Colorado, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today.
In a classic case of bad timing, the day before a Western Slope rally to call for more oil and gas jobs and fewer environmental regulations, a tanker truck carrying 10,000 gallons of crude oil crashed just north of Gateway, Colo., Monday, threatening to contaminate the Dolores River.
Luckily, Alexis Bonogofsky has a day job with the National Wildlife Federation, because her goat ranch and farm on the banks of the Yellowstone River south of Billings, Mont., has been completely shut down by last week’s ExxonMobil pipeline break and oil spill.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday unveiled tough new regulations regarding offshore drilling.
“We are raising the bar for safety, oversight and environmental protection at every stage of the drilling process,” he said in a speech in Washington.
A lot of the heat surrounding immigration policy debate comes from the fear that immigrants take jobs from American citizens, a fear easily exacerbated during a job-starved recession. But do new immigrants, legal and illegal, really take jobs…
In the September issue of Esquire, Tom Junod has delivered a profile of the 11 men killed in the Transocean oil rig explosion and fire that led to the largest spill in U.S. history and that will end in…
It is good to see that British Petroleum is finally doing the right thing — acting aggressively in a way that will forestall future problems for the company. That’s right, the Durango Herald reported Thursday that BP is removing…
Another day, another onshore oil spill somewhere in America.
Officials in Michigan, according to our sister site, the Michigan Messenger, are streaming into the small town of Calhoun to assess the growing aquatic devastation from what may wind up…
The Washington Post does the math on the “revolving door” turning always between the federal government and the oil industry, underscoring the significant influence the industry has over Congress and the administration.
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BP and other companies involved
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A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll delivers the latest edition of “Today’s Awful News” for British Petroleum. BP’s favorability rating now stands at 6 percent, lower than recent ratings for Phillip Morris (15 percent) and O.J.…
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