This is the grave of the M. King Hubbert. Born in 1903 in San Saba, Texas, Hubbert grew up well off enough to attend the University of Chicago, where he excelled. He did all three degrees there, getting his BS in 1926, his master's in...
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Of course: The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has.
This is absolutely indefensible in 2023: The Biden administration on Monday will formally approve a huge oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow, according to two people familiar with.
One of the major issues in South America in the last twenty years is what to do with the resources that are in the ground. The many leftist governments that have risen in the region have grappled with this. Hugo Chavez wanted to build socialism...
We "lost" Joseph Hazelwood today, the infamous drunk captain of the Exxon Valdez. I assume we are all getting drunk today and dumping cans of oil in our local waterways.
I don't remember when I first saw this in my research, but it came up on my Facebook memories and it continues to just amaze. Yeah we know. We definitely.
You'd like to think that evil oil companies are just giving to right-wingers. But of course centrists want that sweet, sweet fossil fuel money as bad as any Republican. Not everyone is happy about Unearthed’s recent exposé on ExxonMobil. Shortly after the Greenpeace-attached journalistic outfit...
100505-N-6070S-253 VENICE, LA (May. 05, 2010) -- Gathered concentrated oil burns during a controlled oil fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Coast Guard working in partnership with BP.
Winona Laduke??? and other ???water protectors??? rally at the Wisc.-Minn. border on June 29, 2018, the morning after Line 3 is approved. They???re vowing to fight to keep the oil.
I was struck in yesterday's race and policing thread by the number of commenters who said that corporate words about fighting racism (blackwashing perhaps?) actually had meaning. They don't. The thing about corporations saying they are going to act on issues of racial justice is...
This is disturbing, though not really surprising I suppose. For years, Big Oil has cozied up to American public schools—and now they seem to be cashing in their chips. New.
I recently read Megan Black's 2018 book The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power, which explores the relationship between the Department of the Interior and American empire. In it,.