In 2010, an explosion on the BP-leased Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers and spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels, or 208.5 million gallons, of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. According to a recent report by a researcher at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, the explos...
Russia’s newest “anti-gay” legislation, which bans spreading “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors,” was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on June 30. This anti-gay law is Russia’s most...
The U.S. State Department released its 2,000-page draft environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline last Friday, a project slated to transport oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Neb., and then, finally, onto ...
On December 7, 2012, the United States Supreme Court announced it would hear two cases in reference to same-sex marriage: the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California Proposition 8, or Prop 8. The oral hearings for Prop 8 and DOM...
