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Congress Pressures Oil Giants On Spill Plans

photo via flickr When the CEOs of some of the world’s largest oil companies testified in front of the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment earlier this month, they had no good answers for how their companies would approach cleaning up a spill like the Deepwater Horizon. That’s not good enough, of course, and now Congress is pressuring the oil companies to step up and be more forthright. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) sent a letter today to ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Shell, and Chevron demanding answers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is it Safe to Talk About Climate Change Again?

Photo via Keen Press Over the last year or so, you may have noticed politicians using less and less direct language to discuss climate change. According to some polls, Americans were growing skeptical that man was causing global warming, a trend abetted by fierce public relations efforts from the fossil fuel industry and the Climate Gate non-scandal , which the media did a supremely poor job of covering accurately. But now, the noise from those ruckuses have faded out, and scientists are recording brand new… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is it Safe to Talk About Climate Change Again?