Oil
Activists say BP cut corners on Gulf oil cleanup
April 13, 2012Protesters and environmental activists declared that the oil company had seriously cut corners in its cleanup of the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Environment and politics: one and the same
March 30, 2012"Capitalism is fundamentally incapable of dealing with climate change." These were the words of microbial ecologist Steve McCallister.
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Gulf dolphins suffer post-oil spill illnesses
March 27, 2012In Barataria Bay, La. (located in the northern Gulf of Mexico), bottlenose dolphins are suffering from severe illnesses - the aftermath of the BP oil spill, according to a report by Click Green.
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Keystone XL: Native Americans outraged
March 23, 2012After President Obama endorsed a southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline on Mar. 22 (which would carry oil from Cushing to Port Arthur, Texas), Native American activists in Okalahoma expressed outrage at the news. They...
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George Clooney, Ben Jealous: Action need to avoid humanitarian crisis in Sudan
March 20, 2012Actor George Clooney, along with NAACP head Benjamin Jealous, Martin Luther King III and several members of Congress were arrested in a protest outside of the Sudanese embassy recently.
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