By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter on July 29, 2016 at 10:51 AM, updated July 29, 2016 at 11:29 AM Even as Hilcorp Energy Co. works to clean up a spill of as much as 4,200 gallons of oil in the Plaquemines Parish marsh, the company is […]
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Local tribes continue fight for federal recognition
Published on Tuesday, 12 May 2015 14:28 Written by JACOB BATTE, The Courier HOUMA, La. (AP) – For local Indian tribes seeking federal recognition, congressional pushback is disappointing, but nothing new. U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, is demanding the Obama administration hold off on new rules that could make it easier for Indian groups to […]
Oklahoma Looks For Answers On Earthquakes
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS June 26, 201411:33 PM ET EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Central Oklahoma residents are demanding to know whether earthquake swarms that have shaken their homes and their nerves in recent months are caused by oil and gas drilling operations in the area. About 500 people attended a meeting with regulators and research […]
Rumble on the Oklahoma prairie
Geologists link state’s increase in earthquakes to fracking July 2, 2014 5:00AM ET by L.E. Ellison The T-shirts say it all: Keep calm and polka on. It has been almost three years since a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Prague, Oklahoma, buckling a highway, cracking structures and rattling nerves. It was the largest earthquake ever recorded in […]
The Inside Story Of How Greenpeace Built A Corporate Spanking Machine To Turn The Fortune 500 Into Climate Heroes
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Safeguarding Louisiana’s Coastline
By RUSSEL L. HONORÉMAY 28, 2014 BATON ROUGE, La. — After decades of watching our state being ravaged to support the nation’s oil and gas addiction, the people of Louisiana have had enough. Last summer, an independent government authority responsible for flood protection for the New Orleans area sued more than 90 oil and gas […]
