Petroleum

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• SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  12/9/2021
  

  The Industrial Infrastructure Catastrophe Hanging Over the Gulf Coast

  The flooding and destruction of the refineries and storage facilities along 52 miles of the Houston Ship Channel is a matter of if, not when, says environmental lawywer Jim Blackburn. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/29/2021
  

  I Wrote About This Environmental Injustice Decades Ago. It Hasn’t Changed

  by Robert Bullard

  A vacancy on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will test Biden's stated commitment to advancing environmental justice. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/12/2021
  

  Congress May Have To Act To Punish Saudi Arabia

  by David M. Wight

  Political pressures have made US presidents less disposed than Congress to impose limits on the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia. If arms sales are to be a lever for change in the kingdom, it will probably be up to Congress to make it happen. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/28/2020
  

  The Beginning of the End for Oil?

  by Michael T. Klare

  If there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that it creates the conditions necessary to do what we have known was necessessary for decades: drastically curtail fossil fuel consumption.