petroleum
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Everything You Need to Know About the Controversial Willow Project
If you’ve opened TikTok recently, you may have seen a collection of videos under the hashtag #StopWillow, some of which have racked up hundreds of thousands of views, imploring people to take action against a controversial new oil project. (“There won’t [be] a healthy planet for your kids if Biden goes through with the willow…
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Los Angeles Bans Fossil Fuel Extraction Within City Limits
The Los Angeles City Council opted to end oil and gas drilling within the city’s limits in a historic Friday vote. The decision was unanimous, with 12-0 in favour of a draft ordinance phasing out existing fossil fuel wells and banning new ones. LA will end all of its current oil and gas drilling within…
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Biden to Release More Oil From U.S. Stockpile Held in Salt Caves
On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced that it would pull an additional 15 million barrels of oil out of the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to help juice up oil supplies and keep gas prices low in the face of the global energy crisis.
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Signs of BP’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Persist Over a Decade Later
Fiddler crabs build their burrows in beaches and in the muck of saltwater wetlands. Usually, those holes serve as the crabs’ home and provide each crustacean shelter and a quick escape from predators. But in some long-abandoned fiddler crab burrows along Louisiana’s Gulf coast, you’ll find something else: Residues of crude oil.