Pennsylvania labor activists marched on Capitol Hill yesterday in protest against the shutdown of three refineries in the state. Politicians from both sides supported them in their call to stem the job losses and address the imminent threat to the nation’s energy security that the loss of gasoline production in the east coast now poses. The refining companies (Sunoco and ConocoPhillips) were quick to respond with the lame retort that some of these...
Published on Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Rolling Stone by Jeff Goodell Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? Is it time to take to the streets, express some outrage, maybe engage in a little guerilla warfare against Big Oil and Big Coal? That’s the message you get in a new documentary film called Just Do It: A...
The 4.7 magnitude temblors felt last Sunday in Arkansas, part of a recent “swarm” of earthquakes in the area, could be just a prelude to something much more devastating. The threat would be lessened if oil and gas companies are barred from injecting post-fracking wastewater into the earth. Arkansas once had an earthquake so big it caused the Mississippi river to run backwards. There are several faults in Arkansas including one not far from...
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