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Stephen Colbert Highlights DeSmog's Exxon Arkansas Tar Sands Spill No Fly...
The Colbert Report last night featured DeSmogBlog's investigative findings on the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delegating authority over its “no-fly zone” above the Mayflower tar sands...
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ExxonMobil Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Gash 22 Feet Long, Attorney General...
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced today that ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline suffered a 22 foot long gash that led to the rupture that gushed up to 294,000 gallons of tar sands dilbit...
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Arkansas Hires Notorious Private Contractor To Clean Up Mayflower Tar Sands...
Arkansas' Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the “independent analysis of the cleanup” of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O'Brien's, a firm with a history of...
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Study Reveals 30 Toxic Chemicals at High Levels at Exxon Arkansas Tar Sands...
An independent study co-published by the Faulkner County Citizens Advisory Group and Global Community Monitor reveals that, in the aftermath of ExxonMobil's Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill of over...
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Pegasus Pipeline Spill: Mayflower Residents Find Conflicting Advice from...
It’s been over five weeks since ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline burst beneath a Mayflower, Arkansas subdivision, spilling diluted bitumen born of tar sands throughout the neighborhood. Five weeks later,...
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Faulkner County: ExxonMobil's "Sacrifice Zone" for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking
There are few better examples of a “sacrifice zone” for ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry at-large than Faulkner County, Arkansas and the counties surrounding it. Six weeks have passed since a...
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Exxon Knew of Dangerous Contamination from Arkansas Spill, Yet Claimed Area...
This is a guest blog by Jesse Coleman, cross-posted from Greenpeace blog The WitnessOn March 29 ExxonMobil, the most profitable company in the world, spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands crude...
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Two Major Lawsuits Filed Against ExxonMobil for Arkansas Tar Sands Spill
Two major lawsuits were recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against ExxonMobil, the “private empire” behind the March 2013 Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill of...
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Firm with History of Spill Cover-Ups Hired to Clean Up North Dakota Oil Spill
Tesoro Logistics — the company whose pipeline spilled more than 800,000 gallons of fracked Bakken Shale oil in rural North Dakota in September — has hired infamous contractor Witt O'Brien's to oversee...
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Mayflower: Deadly Tornado Sweeps Through Arkansas Town That Endured...
On March 29, 2013, ExxonMobil's Pegasus tar sands pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, sending hundreds of thousands of gallons of diluted bitumen (“dilbit”) pouring down the town's streets.Now,...
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