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Indigenous campaigners have vowed to “fight until the end” after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuador’s oil operations was thrown out of court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
By Karen Savage, Climate Docket. Originally published on Climate Docket. Pennie Opal Plant spent much of last weekend anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke from California’s growing wildfires, ...
Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans, cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophic consequences. Meeting the UK’s 2050 net-zero target requires a “reset...
By Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Los Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers of the potentially “catastrophic consequences” of burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry is depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
Back in late March, Formosa Plastics broke ground on its $9.4 billion plastics and petrochemical project in St. James, Louisiana, which the company has dubbed the “Sunshine Project.” Today, the co...
Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...
A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally “trampled” on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landowners’ permissio...

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Indigenous campaigners have vowed to “fight until the end” after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuador’s oil operations was thrown out of court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
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By Karen Savage, Climate Docket. Originally published on Climate Docket. Pennie Opal Plant spent much of last weekend anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke from California’s growing wildfires, ...
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Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans, cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
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Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophic consequences. Meeting the UK’s 2050 net-zero target requires a “reset...
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By Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Los Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
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More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers of the potentially “catastrophic consequences” of burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
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With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry is depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
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Back in late March, Formosa Plastics broke ground on its $9.4 billion plastics and petrochemical project in St. James, Louisiana, which the company has dubbed the “Sunshine Project.” Today, the co...
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Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...
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A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally “trampled” on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landowners’ permissio...