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How Much Should BP Pay?
BP obviously would love to put the Deepwater Horizon disaster behind it, but the communities of the Gulf do not have that luxury.
UK Renews Push for Carbon Capture with £1bn Competition
The revival of a government initiative to design the first workable demonstration project could create an industry with 100,000 jobs
Obama’s March Madness
Spring is in the air — but has the president really fallen madly in love with dirty energy? As usual, the answer is complicated.
Is Dimock’s Water Really Safe to Drink?
When the EPA announced last week that the water is safe to drink in Dimock, PA, it seemed to vindicate the energy industry’s insistence that drilling and fracking had not caused pollution in the area. But there’s more to the story.
Feds Let BP Off Probation Despite Pending Safety Violations
by Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica BP’s refining subsidiary was released today from criminal probation related to a 2005 explosion in Texas City that killed 15 workers. The company has addressed the most serious safety deficiencies exposed by the accident and satisfied the terms of a felony plea agreement to settle charges that it failed to protect [...]
