‘Around here, you’re either eating steak or you’re eating beans’
Back when just about every oil pump jack in town was running, Tara Smith had more work than she could handle.
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Trump administration to lease 77 million acres in Gulf of Mexico
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the sale, scheduled for March, would open an area the size of New Mexico to drilling, including all unleased areas on the Gulf’s outer continental shelf.
A huge salmon die-off is happening — and our cars might be responsible
A recent study traced a major coho salmon die-off to contaminants from roads and automobiles — brake dust, oil, fuel, chemical fluids — that hitch a ride on storm water and flow into watersheds.
London’s £10 T-charge comes into effect in fight against toxic car fumes
People driving older, more polluting petrol and diesel vehicles will be liable for the £10 T-charge, on top of the congestion charge of £11.50, which has been in place since 2003.
Experts who sold the idea of oil exports proven very wrong very fast
As Bloomberg put it recently, today “crude oil gushes out of the U.S. like never before.”
A string of dangerous accidents in Alaska sends BP reeling
Internal emails, recordings, interviews, and other documentation obtained by BuzzFeed News show how BP Alaska executives are struggling to “reset” the company’s safety culture after five dangerous accidents this year alone.
Why does green California pump the dirtiest oil in the U.S.?
So far, California’s oil producers have done little to change the way they operate.
Iraq asks BP to boost oil production from Kirkuk: spokesman
Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi met a senior BP executive on Monday to discuss developing and boosting production from Kirkuk oilfield, a ministry spokesman said.
EPA abandons changes to U.S. biofuel program after lawmaker pressure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has backed off a series of proposed changes to the nation’s biofuels policy after a massive backlash from corn-state lawmakers worried the moves would undercut ethanol demand.
Global pollution is the world’s biggest killer and a threat to survival of mankind, study finds
Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world, accounting for three times more deaths in 2015 than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, according to a sweeping global study published Friday in The Lancet medical journal.
