by Laura Seay | Jun 21, 2010 | Opinion
The first research I ever did on African politics was about oil in the Niger Delta. I was 18, a freshman in college, and completely naive about a lot of things. Everything I knew about Big Oil came from my dad’s stories about my grandfather, who worked in the...
by Wendell Griffen | Jun 11, 2010 | Opinion
Most of the nation recognizes by now that the risks associated with offshore oil exploration are more real than the oil industry, lawmakers and government regulators have ever admitted. U.S. and state lawmakers and regulators either failed to understand or consciously...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 10, 2010 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention’s leader on public policy issues claimed that environmentalists and President Obama are mostly to blame for oil devastation in the Gulf of Mexico. Richard Land, head of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,...
by Linda Brinson | Jun 3, 2009 | News
Anyone who watches television, browses the Web or reads print media is probably familiar with the feel-good ads touting the big oil companies as green and eager to lead the way to clean energy technology. Some are cute and animated; some tug at the heartstrings with...
by Bob Allen | Feb 7, 2007 | News
An Exxon-Mobil-funded think tank offered scientists $10,000 to write papers undermining a new major report on climate change. First reported by The Guardian, the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative, pro-business research-and-education organization based in...
