Lawyers from 35,000 villagers filed suit in London, alleging that Shell’s slow response to a 560,000 barrel oil spill has destroyed their local economy.

Lawyers representing 35,000 villagers filed suit in London, alleging that Shell’s slow response to a 560,000 barrel oil spill has destroyed their local economy.

It’s been less than a week since news went public of Chevron’s latest oil spill off the coast of Brazil, its second in less than 6 months, but troubles for the oil company and the environment are clearly escalating.

Just five months after Chevron lost its drilling rights for causing the largest oil spill in recent memory off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, they’ve gone and done it again.

All that back and forth about how much oil really flowed into the Gulf in 2010 has again come into high relief.

Climate activists join Occupy Wall Street to protest the backdoor dealings between the oil industry and the GOP leadership.

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The ongoing oil spill off the coast of New Zealand began nearly two weeks ago, but it will get worse before it gets better, officials predict. Much worse. Since the Rena ran aground on a reef, oil has been steadily but slowly leaking into the ocean and reaching shore.

But the ship’s position on the reef has become increasingly precarious, battered by high winds and 12 foot waves. The breakup of the ship and the spilling of another 1,000 tons of oil into the water are likely imminent, reported the New…Read the full story on TreeHugger

It’s not just the usual suspects who are opposing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700 mile oil spill waiting to happen. A key group that is organizing against the pipeline are landowners who don’t like a Canadian company, TransCanada, threatening their land and access to safe, clean water. In Nebraska, the pipeline would cross over the Ogallala aquifer, which supplies groundwater for irrigation to 30 percent of the US. That’s part of the reason why Randy Thompson, a Nebraska landowner from Merrick County has been fighting TransCanada for years. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Here’s one for the more enterprising investigators in the TreeHugger audience: Under the Freedom of Information Act Greenpeace has collected some 30,000 confidential documents related to the Gulf oil spill and made them available in the new PolluterWatch Research site. Included in the documents are internal correspondenc…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In light of the presidential report on the Gulf oil spill that’s due to be released next week, speculation is running rampant that the companies involved — BP, Halliburton, and Transocean — could soon be facing criminal charges. …Read the full story on TreeHugger