“No one cares more about the environment than oil companies,” said Steven Colbert on The Colbert Report last night. Check out his sketch that poked fun at the expiration of the offshore drilling ban. Colbert tells the audience: “A lot of people talk about loving the earth. But how many of them actually penetrate it?” [...]

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The Daily Show once again proves that it is one of the few news programs putting real time and resources into calling candidates out on their bullshit, carving up political expediency like a Bushido blade on a tofurkey.
Here, Jon Stewart, some great writing, and some clever editing dismantle the newly revised openness both [...]

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Since reading Sebastian Junger’s wonderful expose on the issue last February in Vanity Fair, the situation surrounding the Nigerian Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has captivated me. In a region so strategically important to the United States, MEND has managed to single-handedly disrupt Chevron and Shell’s efforts to drain the [...]

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Newspapers manage to get everything right and wrong in the same stories. Today’s front-page example from The Paper of Record comes under the headline: Inspector Finds Broad Failures in Oil Program
The Interior Department’s program to collect billions of dollars annually from oil companies that drill on federal lands is plagued by… ethical lapses and fears [...]

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Taking a mandatory, utterly terrifying ride with this guy through the Niger Delta.

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