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He’s Back! BP’s Tony Hayward Cuts Deal To Drill In Arctic Wildlife Haven
Former BP CEO Tony Hayward is back in the news – and once again, he’s putting critical wildlife habitat at risk. Read more >
Uncovering the Secret in the Sand – Buried Oil Remains After Cleanup
Many of the oil-fouled beaches along the Gulf coast and barrier islands have been scoured, scraped, raked and filtered clean. Tourist beaches and beaches in front of high-rise condominiums along the Florida panhandle and eastern shores of Alabama are spectacularly white… Read more >
Clean Car Future in Detroit
by Danielle Korpalski and Frank Szollosi, reporting from the North American International Auto Show. Three things you can count on at a big car show in Detroit: big engines, bright lights, and beautiful models. What was really sexy, though, was taking… Read more >
Car Shopping? Just in from an EPA Hearing on New Fuel Economy Labels…
Shopping for new wheels. It’s a pretty big deal. With dealer showrooms filling up with groundbreaking new technology, it’s also a pretty exciting time to be looking for a new car. Now the fuel economy window sticker has to catch… Read more >
Moose and Caribou Numbers Drop from Tar Sands Production
Yesterday’s industry-led tour of Suncor’s operations, and a visit to the First Nations town of Fort McKay, gave our delegation varied perspectives on the enormity of the industry Read more >
PA Official Resigns Over Spying on Enviros
Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry is notoriously reckless on safety, ranking 6th worst in the U.S. according to a recent National Wildlife Federation report, but somehow it was environmental advocates who were targeted by state level homeland security officials. The… Read more >
Video – Tar Sands Bring Misery to Alberta Residents
Felice Stadler filed this dispatch while on a tour of tar sands producing Alberta, Canada. National Wildlife Federation is working to slow production of tar sands fuels in Alberta. Tar sands are one of the dirtiest fuels in the world… Read more >
Permanent Cap Marks End of Beginning of Gulf Oil Disaster
BP announced Sunday a permanent seal had been placed on its Macondo well, site of the April 20th Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 people and led to an estimated 206 million gallons of oil gushing into the Gulf of… Read more >
Polluters Pour Millions Into November Elections
Yesterday here at Wildlife Promise, we detailed how polluters have spent more than $200 million on lobbying already this year, trying to block any effort to limit global warming pollution. A reader wrote in to ask how much polluters are… Read more >
Poll: in Nebraska, ‘huskers rally against tar sands pipeline
Nebraska is many things to many people. Depending on who you ask, the Cornhusker State is “Where the West Begins,” the birthplace of Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet, or home to a uniquely football-mad populace. And really, speaking as an… Read more >
