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    Oil Spill Disasters: How to Limit Environmental Damage

    Oil Spill Disasters: How to Limit Environmental Damage

    By Loveday Wright and Stuart Braun After a Japanese-owned oil tanker struck a reef off Mauritius on July 25, a prolonged period of inaction is threatening to become an ecological disaster. Carrying nearly 4,000 metric tons of fuel oil, the tanker ran aground near Pointe d’Esny on the island in the Indian Ocean. “Local authorities […]

    Mauritius’ First Major Oil Spill Poses Environmental Crisis

    Mauritius’ First Major Oil Spill Poses Environmental Crisis

    The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, renowned for its coral reefs, is facing an unprecedented ecological catastrophe after a tanker ran aground offshore and began leaking oil. The 984-foot MV Wakashio ran aground on July 25 and began to break up due to rough waters, The Guardian reported. It contained about 220.5 tons of diesel […]

    Philippine Oil Spill Threatens Recovering Mangrove Forests

    Philippine Oil Spill Threatens Recovering Mangrove Forests

    By Jun N. Aguirre An oil spill on July 3 threatens a mangrove forest on the Philippine island of Guimaras, an area only just recovering from the country’s largest spill in 2006. This latest spill stems from an explosion onboard a floating power barge in the 13-kilometer (8-mile) waterway between the city of Iloilo and […]

    Corporations Don’t Have to Pay Pollution Fines During COVID-19

    Corporations Don’t Have to Pay Pollution Fines During COVID-19

    Corporations that flouted environmental regulations and spewed pollutants into the air and dumped them into waterways will not be required to pay the fines they agreed to during the pandemic, according to The Guardian. The forbearance of payments totals million from ten corporations for a variety of violations across the country, including polluting air and […]

    Trump Admin Helps Fed to Bail Out the Oil Sector, Claims Energy Secretary

    Trump Admin Helps Fed to Bail Out the Oil Sector, Claims Energy Secretary

    Two top administration officials, at the direction of President Trump, helped the Federal Reserve alter its lending program intended to bail out small businesses specifically to aid mid-size oil companies, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette told Bloomberg TV this week. “Secretary Mnuchin worked very closely with the Federal Reserve … and made that program available to […]

    Watch: Ocean Reefs Hidden Beneath Offshore Oil Rigs

    Watch: Ocean Reefs Hidden Beneath Offshore Oil Rigs

    By Jeremy Deaton, video by Bart Vandever The 2010 BP oil spill dumped more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, where it killed billions of fish. Had things gone as planned, that oil would have fueled cars and trucks, worsening climate change, which is going to kill billions of […]

    Oil Prices Fall Below Zero for First Time in History

    Oil Prices Fall Below Zero for First Time in History

    Oil prices turned negative for the first time in history Monday as energy demand plummets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The dramatic price drop, from to around negative for the lead U.S. oil benchmark, was caused because more oil is being produced than can be stored, so buyers had to pay traders to […]

    Some Oil Producing Nations Agree to Cut Production 10%

    Some Oil Producing Nations Agree to Cut Production 10%

    Oil-producing nations led by Russia, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia reached an unprecedented agreement on Sunday to cut oil production by 9.7 million barrels per day, or nearly 10 percent of what is currently produced, as The New York Times reported. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered lockdowns around the world, the demand for oil […]