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China issues first-ever national red alert for smog as air pollution continues to smother parts of the nation
Daily Mail - Tue Jan 3, 2017
China issued its first national red alert for air pollution on Wednesday as the country continues to battle poor air quality. More»

Mystery of London's killer fog: Researchers reveal how chemicals combined to form haze that killed 12,000
Daily Mail - Tue Nov 15, 2016
In 1952, a mysterious fog swept through London, blanketing the city in a dense layer of pollutants that killed thousands of people and animals and made it difficult to breathe for days. More»

Cable News Silent as Two States Declare Emergency After Pipeline Spill
US Uncut - Thu Sep 15, 2016
More than a quarter million gallons of gasoline have spilled in Shelby County, Alabama, after a major fuel pipeline ruptured this week. More»

Govt. Scientists Admit They Deceived the Public About Fracking's Impact on Drinking Water
AlterNet - Tue Jan 12, 2016
Five years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was commissioned by Congress to undertake a study on the impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on drinking water. More»

'Urgent Attention' Needed On Spike In Earthquakes Possibly Related To Oil And Gas Activity
Raw Story - Mon Sep 28, 2015
A coalition of US states warned on Monday that a spike in earthquakes potentially tied to oil and gas activity in places not typically prone to them needs urgent attention from regulators and others to protect public safety. More»

The California Oil Spill Is Even Worse Than We Thought
Think Progress - Thu May 21, 2015
Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in California on Wednesday, after oil spill estimates soared from 21,000 gallons to more than 105,000 gallons. More»

5 Years After Gulf Oil Spill, BP Spokesman Tells Public Not To Worry About Tar Balls In The Water
Think Progress - Sat Apr 18, 2015
Five years ago, BP's historic 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill resulted in more than 210 million barrels of oil ending up in the Gulf of Mexico. More»

Scientists have found a 10 million gallon 'bath mat' of oil on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico
Business Insider - Tue Feb 3, 2015
Scientists have already reported finding what they called a 1,235-square-mile "bathtub ring" of oil on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico left over from the huge 2010 BP oil spill. More»

Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf oil spill evidence
Reuters - Fri Jul 26, 2013
Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday. More»

Oil company offices raided in EU pricing probe
BBC - Tue May 14, 2013
The offices of several firms involved in the oil market have been raided by European Commission officials. More»

Fracking is transforming our energy economy-but it's also causing earthquakes
MSNBC - Sun Dec 9, 2012
In just the past few years a revolution in carbon extraction technology has radically transformed our energy economy. More»

New evidence suggests BP knowingly downplayed huge scale of oil leak in 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster
The Daily Mail - Sun Dec 9, 2012
Documents that will be presented to court in February appear to show that BP knew about the massive scale of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil blowout weeks earlier than previously stated. More»

Doctors fight "gag orders" over fracking chemicals
American Medical News - Sun Aug 26, 2012
When several unrelated patients visited McMurray, Pennsylvania-based plastic surgeon Amy Par, MD, she initially was unsure what to make of the bleeding, oozing legions covering their faces. More»

Mysterious Louisiana Sinkhole Raises Concerns of Explosions and Radiation
ABC - Tue Aug 14, 2012
A nearly 400-foot deep sinkhole in Louisiana has swallowed all of the trees in its area and enacted a mandatory evacuation order for about 150 residences for fear of potential radiation and explosions. More»

U.S. Government blocks sales of fuel-efficient cars
Natural News Buzz - Tue Jun 19, 2012
The development of affordable "green" cars and trucks - electric vehicles or hybrids designed to dramatically curb the nation's reliance on fossil fuels - is supposed to be a primary goal for the Obama administration and a number of government and industry leaders. More»

For Pennsylvania's Doctors, a Gag Order on Fracking Chemicals
The Atlantic - Mon Mar 26, 2012
Under a new law, doctors in Pennsylvania can access information about chemicals used in natural gas extraction -- but they won't be able to share it with their patients. More»

Audit: Fracking pipes are completely unregulated
Associated Press - Mon Mar 26, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO - Government auditors say federal officials know nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through the drilling method known as fracking, and need to step up oversight to make sure they are running safely. More»

English earthquakes blamed on shale 'fracking'
Associated Press - Tue Nov 1, 2011
LONDON - The only company in Britain using hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas from shale rock said Wednesday that the controversial technique probably did trigger earth tremors in April and May. More»

Judges Are for Sale - and Special Interests Are Buying
Time - Sun Oct 30, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement is shining a spotlight on how much influence big-money interests have with the White House and Congress. More»

Unlocked by melting ice-caps, the great polar oil rush has begun
The Guardian, UK - Mon Sep 5, 2011
It's the melting of the Arctic ice, as the climate warms, that makes it possible - and you can understand why they're all piling in. More»

New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases
AlterNet - Tue Jul 26, 2011
Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice. More»

Teams gauge Exxon oil spill damage to Montana river
Associated Press - Sat Jul 2, 2011
LAUREL, Montana - Teams of federal and state workers fanned out Sunday along Montana's Yellowstone River to gauge the environmental damage from a ruptured ExxonMobil pipeline that spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude into the famous waterway. More»

Mystery illnesses plague Louisiana oil spill crews
AFP - Sun Apr 17, 2011
RACELAND, Louisiana - Jamie Simon worked on a barge in the oily waters for six months following the BP spill last year, cooking for the cleanup workers, washing their clothes and tidying up after them. More»

Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
Associated Press - Fri Feb 18, 2011
WASHINGTON - Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor. More»

New drilling method opens vast oil fields in US
Associated Press - Wed Feb 9, 2011
A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude. More»

Pa. allows dumping of tainted waters from gas boom
Associated Press - Mon Jan 3, 2011
The natural gas boom gripping parts of the US has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep. More»

WikiLeaks Reveals BP's Other Offshore Drilling Disaster
Time - Sat Dec 18, 2010
A BP offshore oil platform suddenly shows signs of a potentially devastating leak. More»

Actor Mark Ruffalo placed on terror watch list for supporting a documentary about gas drilling
The Daily Mail - Sun Nov 28, 2010
Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo has been placed on a terror watch list by US officials after organizing screenings for a new documentary about natural gas drilling. More»

With Neighbors Unaware, Toxic Spill at a BP Plant
New York Times - Mon Aug 30, 2010
TEXAS CITY, Texas - While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems. More»

BP accepts blame for Gulf of Mexico spill after leaked memo reveals engineer misread pressure reading
The Daily Mail - Sun Aug 29, 2010
BP has for the first time admitted that it made mistakes which led to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to US reports. More»

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