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Big Money, Environment, US Politics, World Politics

January 29, 2014 | Dave Lindorff

Tags: environment, EPA, ice melting, oil drilling, oil exploration

Part 2: Denying Climate Change….

Reading Time: 7 minutes Washington won’t act to slow the chaos of climate change, even as the Navy prepares to patrol an open Arctic Ocean and the oil industry pushes to be able to start drilling in newly ice-free Arctic waters.
Part two of a three-part WhoWhatWhy investigation.

Big Money, Environment, Threats to Democracy, US Politics, World Politics

September 4, 2012 | Russ Baker

Tags: BP, BP disaster, Goldman Sachs, gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Iraq oil, Kurdistan, Kurds, oil, oil exploration, oil spill, Syria, Turkey

For Hayward, BP Stands for “Back in Play”

Reading Time: 5 minutes Tony Hayward, the former BP chief whose push for ever greater profits led to lowering safety standards and the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, is back with a new, smaller venture, and some interesting partners.

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