Ogale is a farming community in Nigeria whose residents can no longer farm. Bille is a fishing village where nearly all the fish have died. Both lay the loss of their livelihoods at the feet of oil giant Shell, whose more than half a century of oil exploitation in the Niger Delta has left it […]
When it comes to oil spills, there’s no substitute for prevention. The trouble is, 25 years after the Exxon Valdez spill fouled Alaska’s Prince William Sound and four years after the horrific events in the Gulf brought on by the Deepwater Horizon blowout, we can’t seem to stop spewing oil into our waterways. This NPR […]
Environment America On Jan. 31, Rep. John Mica (R-FL), chairman of the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, officially introduced a major transportation reauthorization bill. The overall plan for the bill includes proposals to open the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, and to open […]