A judge for the US District Court for the District of Alaska refused to order ExxonMobil to pay an additional $92 million in damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel, a two-and-a-half-year high, on fears that Saudi Arabia will not be able to make up for the shortfall as chaos engulfs Libya and threatens the entire region.
The president’s Oil Spill Commission finds that last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill was “an entirely preventable disaster,” especially noting substandard construction work by Halliburton.
Ensco Offshore Company is pursuing a lawsuit against the moratorium on new drilling permits enacted after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill—despite the fact that it has been officially lifted.
Jan. 12 marks the 60th anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention—which has demonstrably failed to stop numerous genocides, including some directly backed by the United States.
The paranoid are already calling it a prophecy of the End Times. But does anyone else out there find the official explanations singularly implausible?
California voters defeated Proposition 23, voting 61.3% in favor of keeping the state’s 2006 greenhouse gas reduction law, the Global Warming Solutions Act, considered the strongest in the nation.
UN talks on climate change in Tianjin are nearing a close with no clear consensus yet in sight as China and Brazil blocked discussion of extending the Kyoto Protocol.
Massive fish kills are still being reported from the Louisiana coast as BP finally completes the relief well at Macondo, supposedly putting a final end to the Gulf disaster.
Although before the Deepwater Horizon disaster they won little media attention, government statistics show that more than 100 fires and explosions take place in the Gulf of Mexico each year.
Our August issue featured the story BP: The Case for Public Ownership by Billy Wharton, a reprint from In These Times. Our multiple-choice Exit Poll was: “Should BP be nationalzied?” We received 16 votes. The results follow: Yes, it is… Read moreOur readers write: Should BP be nationalized?
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement calling on governments to work to come into compliance with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
