Little Rock When we read the headlines on the big settlements wrung from corporate baddies for egregious conduct like banks stealing peoples’ homes, plants polluting entire city water systems, or oil companies negligently polluting something as immense as the Gulf of Mexico, we see that they are paying billions and billions of dollars to make …
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“Gasland” and the Powder River Coal Basin
Laramie Throughout our journey through the west, the HBO documentary, Gasland, was a frequent topic of conversation. I’ll have to wait until I get home to track it down, but I gather there were shots throughout Wyoming and this area of water coming out of taps in flames and other wildness that would naturally rivet …
Why So Little Change Won from BP Gulf Crisis?
New Orleans Fingers are crossed, breath held, and hopes soaring that finally there may be an interim fix on the British Petroleum BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. An article by David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post yesterday asked in a timely fashion why this oil crisis has not …