Environment

California offshore oil firms rack up nearly 400 violations

April 11, 2018 By Associated Press

Critics have long said state regulators were too cozy with oil interests and had gone easy on enforcement.

Oil keeps flowing as Corps misses deadline for DAPL environmental study

April 4, 2018 By Albert Bender

Foot-dragging Judge Boasberg lets the oil keep flowing through DAPL, even as the Army Corps of Engineers fails to submit an ordered environmental assessment.

Oil giant in Torrance uses jobs to divide workers and environmentalists

April 3, 2018 By Steve Early

One protestor’s timely placard argued that “An MHF accident will kill even more neighbors than an AR-15!”

Rail workers confront execs on safety

March 23, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

“It’s time to call the big railroads to account, before more lives are lost, more water supplies are ruined and more rail workers are injured."

Thousands march against Canada oil pipeline expansion

March 12, 2018 By Morning Star

Justin Trudeau claims, nonsensically, that expanding the pipeline is part of his plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.