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    Trump Administration Offers 77 Million Acres in Gulf of Mexico to Oil Industry

    Trump Administration Offers 77 Million Acres in Gulf of Mexico to Oil Industry

    The Trump administration is holding the biggest offshore oil and gas lease auction in U.S. history Wednesday, offering all 77 million acres of unleased, available federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale comes as administration officials seek to rescind drilling safety rules approved after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, reduce royalties paid by […]

    Early April Fool’s Joke? Statoil Rebrands Itself as Equinor

    Early April Fool’s Joke? Statoil Rebrands Itself as Equinor

    By Andy Rowell First came BP, which went from British Petroleum to Beyond Petroleum. Then Denmark’s Dong Energy changed its name to Orsted, to mark its departure from oil and gas. Then earlier this year Shell announced it was morphing from an oil company into an integrated energy company. And now, the Norwegian company Statoil […]

    Judge Orders Historic Hearing on Climate Science

    Judge Orders Historic Hearing on Climate Science

    If you turn on the news, you might think that climate science has been on trial for decades. But now a San Francisco judge will give it an official day in court. U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, who is hearing a suit brought by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against five big […]

    Ryan Zinke Wins 2017 Rubber Dodo Award

    Ryan Zinke Wins 2017 Rubber Dodo Award

    Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke is the winner of the Center for Biological Diversity’s 2017 Rubber Dodo award. The statue is awarded each year to the person or group who has most aggressively sought to destroy America’s natural heritage or drive endangered species extinct. “Ryan Zinke seems to wake up every day wondering how he can […]

    BP Accused of ‘Side-Stepping’ Russian Sanctions

    BP Accused of ‘Side-Stepping’ Russian Sanctions

    By Andy Rowell A new expose published Monday reveals how BP, working closely with the British government, has been “side-stepping” sanctions introduced after the Russian annexation of Crimea. The expose is based on documents, obtained under British Freedom of Information laws, which have been obtained by the campaign organization, Culture Unstained, part of the ArtNotOil […]

    Amazon Reef: BP Drilling Plans Dealt Another Blow by Brazilian Regulator

    Amazon Reef: BP Drilling Plans Dealt Another Blow by Brazilian Regulator

    By Joe Sandler Clarke, Unearthed BP’s plans to drill for oil near a huge coral reef in the mouth of Amazon river have been dealt a further blow after a regulator questioned the company’s environmental risk assessment. Ibama, Brazil’s federal environmental agency, rejected an environmental study from the British oil giant, further delaying the company’s […]