Big Oil
Canada, bowing to oil companies, fires ocean scientists
June 12, 2012After massive layoffs at Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, leading ocean scientists - and the environment itself - will suffer the consequences.
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Do wind farms really cause global warming?
May 1, 2012If you get your news from Fox or a handful of other news outlets that are not, to be charitable, best known for their fact checking, you will be relieved to learn that wind farms do...
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GOP reeling from Barton’s “shakedown”
June 18, 2010WASHINGTON-- Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex, has plunged the Republican Party into turmoil with his blurted apology to the CEO of BP for what he called President Obama's "shakedown" of the oil giant, possibly changing the midterm...
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Joe Barton — always Big Oil’s man — from the archives
March 10, 2006Did you hear that great groaning sound? It was us, the people of Texas, expressing our opinion about the news that Congressman Joe Barton was fixing to investigate somebody.
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