06-08-10 by dugan Can BP tell the truth about the causes of the catastrophe it caused in the Gulf of Mexico? A hearing June 17 (date corrected) in the House Energy and Commerce Committee may…
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Drilling Dereg: Darth Did It
6-2-10 by dugan It was Dick Cheney’s secretive, dour demeanor that earned him the nickname "Darth Vader" when he was vice president. But he also had Darth’s slash-and-burn tendencies. Cheney, we now learn, stacked…
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Silence of Big Oil in Gulf
5-25-10 by dugan Here’s the "bingo" quote from a Tuesday Washington Post story by Karen Tumulty, explaining why the rest of the Big Oil companies are pretty much hiding in a hole as BP…
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Culture of Safety-Be-Damned
5-18-10 by dugan We know that federal regulators excused BP from filing a legally required detailed disaster plan on its ill-fated Gulf of Mexico oil rig. We know that BP’s assertions that it had…
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Dread on the Gulf Coast
5-6-10 by dugan (Fort Walton Beach, Florida)–In the northern Gulf of Mexico, along a sparkling coast from Louisana to Florida, everyone is used to hurricanes. You can prepare, and afterward repair, no matter how…
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The Price of Cheap Coal
04-7-10 by dugan It’s not just mountaintops blown to smithereens and drinking water polluted. Cheap coal’s price is also the the 25 miners known dead, plus four more feared dead, in Monday’s West Virginia…
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‘Clean’ Coal PR, Dirty Reality
3-29-10 by dugan Just as the oxymoronic American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity launched a new campaign telling us that coal is sooo much cheaper than natural gas (coal’s chief, and cleaner, competitor), the admirable…
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Oil Lobby Loves Photoshop
It’s a cheap shot, but I’m never above making the oil lobby look phony and stupid. Thanks to TPM for posting a photo from an American Petroleum Institute pamphlet that appears to show a (slightly)…
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Sen. Byrd whacks Big Coal
12-8-09 by dugan On the other fossil fuel front, Sen. Robert Byrd, the coal industry’s best ally in Washington for decades, is standing up against its current scare campaign in West Virginia, and its demand…
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Exxon: Litigate ’til Hell freezes
10-19-09 by dugan It’s good news that ExxonMobil lost a big court case today in New York, where a judge ordered it to pay $105 million for contamination of drinking water with a now-banned…
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One less den of sex ‘n drugs
09-16-09 by dugan It’s hard to even keep track of the sex scandals–was that a governor or a senator? Which state? But one of the best of last year was in the even more…
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Did Chevron run a sting?
09-03-09 by dugan Maybe it’s just my cynical nature, but Chevron’s "smoking gun" video alleging corruption in Ecuador has its fishy points. Chevron has gotten some media on a charge that a video it…
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Exxon: Dead birds’ big message
08-14-08 by dugan It doesn’t sound like a lot–Exxon pleads guilty in federal court to killing 85 birds over 5 years, pays $600,000 in fines and fees. It’s a drop in the bucket for…