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After Decades of Death and Destruction, Shell Pays Just $83 Million for Recent Oil Spills
New settlement for oil spills in 2008 and 2009 reaches $83 million, while contamination from hundreds of past spills continues to pollute water sources and land in the Niger Delta…
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Leasing Coal, Fueling Climate Change
Download the PDF of “Leasing Coal, Fueling Climate Change” This question is especially important in light of a recent federal court ruling, which blocked plans to expand a coal mine…
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Lessons from Exxon Valdez, 25 years later
Monday is the 25-year anniversary of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Now seems a good time to reflect on lessons learned, and lessons lost. 1. Oil spill…
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The Myth of China’s Endless Coal Demand
The US coal industry - reeling from sagging domestic demand, plummeting profits, and tanking stock prices - is desperate for a new market for its wares, and it thinks it has found one in China. But in reality, the Chinese market for US coal exports may dry up before major new US coal shipments ever…
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Donors Trust: Laundering Climate Denial Funding
Findings: Donors Trust and its associated organization, Donors Capital Fund, have funded 102 climate-denial organizations since 2002. From 2002 to 2011, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund have provided $146…
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Polluting Democracy
The majority of the ancient US coal fleet has not installed easily available technology that could reduce mercury pollution by 90%. Coal combustion is responsible for most US mercury pollution.…
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Deepwater Horizon – One Year On
He further announced research to assess the feasibility of offshore drilling in theBeaufort and Chukchi seas off the north coast of Alaska.
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