The refinery giant Tesoro has decided that it can't allow youth baseball leagues to use the fields it owns next to its Martinez, California refinery. That's because there are pickets at the plant due to the refinery strike. Oh, and also to protect the kids...
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I know I am shocked to discover that arguably the nation's leading climate change denying scientist is bought and paid for by fossil fuel corporations, including the coal industry and.
You like oil trains running through your community? You feel safe that they won't explode? Or leak? Or derail? Probably not. So it's just great that the rail companies are.
Trish Kahle has an interesting piece at Jacobin on the potential for alliance between striking United Steelworkers' refinery workers and environmentalists over safety conditions at the plants. Certainly environmentalists like Bill McKibben are saying all the right things here--greens have indeed learned lessons from the...
One of things that drives me really crazy is when people talk about unions only in terms of financial gain. While workers (or anyone) will never turn down more money,.
In order to save Mary Landrieu's job, which will not work, some Senate Democrats are pushing for a vote to pass the Keystone XL Pipeline. Landrieu is throwing a Hail.
An interesting photographic exhibit of life in Fort McMurray, Alberta, a city completely dedicated to an extraordinarily dirty form of energy. Surprisingly diverse populace, I must say. I have trouble seeing all those Muslims in western North Dakota. See also this sketch comic based upon...
The oil industry might admit that climate change is happening but it, along with coal, is more responsible than anyone for making sure that the U.S. does nothing about it..
My dismay toward President Obama's decisions to open the ocean off the east coast to oil drilling cannot be overstated. This is a terrible decision that is in line with.
The energy industry continues its war upon the people and ecology of Louisiana: Last summer, an independent government authority responsible for flood protection for the New Orleans area sued more than 90 oil and gas companies for damaging coastal marshes that protect the city. The...
I had meant to write about the unwillingness of foreign governments to step up to Ecuador's offer to not drill for oil in its rainforest if the international community would.
Like the absurdly low OSHA violation fines that give employers no incentive to fix safety problems on the job, the low fines for corporate polluters are just a drop in.