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This is environmental racism': Black community in Memphis resists proposed crude oil pipeline
When her father died, Linda Hayes said his last request to her was to take care of the vegetable garden he grew for his community at his home in Boxtown, Tennessee. 'Two weeks before he passed away, he told me, he said, 'I'm ready to go be with…
How to Determine the Quality of Essential Oils
The quality of essential oils is often a contentious subject, bringing up feelings of protectiveness and challenging beliefs. I have written this post, not so much as a definitive answer to discerning quality, but rather to raise some valuable…
Interior head Haaland revokes Trump-era orders on energy
WASHINGTON -- Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday revoked a series of Trump administration orders that promoted fossil fuel development on public lands and waters, and issued a separate directive that prioritizes climate change in agency…
Chemical Used in Many Oil Refineries Could Cause Mass Deaths If Leaked
The morning of Wednesday, February 18, 2015, had started just like any other day for Summer Spencer. Back then, she was a sixth grader at South High School in Torrance, a coastal city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County. But at around…
Africa in the news: Uganda oil pipeline, (fewer) locusts in East Africa, and political updates
On Sunday, April 11, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Tanzanian President Samia Hassan Suluhu signed an agreement to contruct the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). The $3.55 billion pipeline will stretch from Uganda's Albertine Graben…
Fears of Second Virus Wave Fizzle Oil Market
A platform supply vessel sits anchored next to a deepwater oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News) [Ensure you have all the info you need in these unprecedented times. Subscribe now. ] Oil fell again as a fresh…
False hope: desperate families prey to 'nonsense' snake-oil treatments for autism
Bleach enemas, restrictive diets, and potentially toxic pills are among the dangerous and debunked “therapies” that parents of children with autism have been sold. The bleach – “Miracle Mineral Supplement”…
Oil Falls Amid Uncertainty Over Trade War, OPEC Supply Cuts
An employee looks out from a platform above pipelines at a Duna oil refinery operated by MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc in Szazhalombatta, Hungary. (Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg News) [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Oil…
A Week in Nigeria: 17 April
Highlights from Reuters coverage of Nigeria over the last seven days In this week's round-up: Up to 65,000 people flee insurgents in northeast Nigeria, media blamed for Twitter choosing Ghana over Nigeria for Africa HQ, and buyer found for…
DPR, NEITI differ on Nigeria's oil production volume - Punch Newspapers
The Department of Petroleum Resources has faulted the assertion by the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, Orji Ogbonnaya-Orji, that the exact volume of Nigeria's crude production is not known.
Leaking Oil and Gas Wells: A Ticking Time Bomb
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. They could be in your town or the next town over. Or both. Nobody knows. They're contributing to health problems across the…
US production rebound will lead to new oil price war, shale executive says
Last year, the OPEC+ group broke up their production pact in March after demand started crashing in the pandemic and US crude oil production had hit 13 million bpd in the weeks prior to the start of the pandemic. “OPEC and Russia were upset…
Nigeria: The Much-Awaited Dangote Oil Refinery
Abuja — Few years ago, any economic pundit that thought of the possibility of a privately-owned petroleum refinery that would have the capacity to meet the needs of Nigeria's downstream sector, and still export to neighboring countries…
SILENCER SATURDAY #173: The LEGAL Oil Filter Suppressor
Good afternoon friends and welcome back to another edition of TFB's Silencer Saturday brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the YHM R9 suppressor. Last week got to spend some time with the impressive CGS Hydra rimfire suppressors.
Clean crude? Oil firms use offsets to claim green barrels
In January, Occidental Petroleum announced it had accomplished something no oil company had done before: It sold a shipload of crude that it said was 100% carbon-neutral. While the two-million-barrel cargo to India was destined to produce more than…
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