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Topic: Oil

Fugelsang: Cutting Medicare to fix budget is like invading Iraq when you were attacked by 15 Saudis

March 19, 2013
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US President George W. Bush addressing the nation aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. Photo by Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images  

“Some of the people who told you how necessary the Iraq War was — both in politics and media — are now telling you how necessary austerity is.” —John Fugelsang watch video

Bill McKibben: Climate change is not just an environmental problem, it’s an economic problem

January 10, 2013
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View of icebergs taken in the Norvegian fjord Kongsfjord off the coast of Ny-Alesund on June 5, 2010. Photo by Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images  

“If you want to figure out a way to wreck our economy, the best way to do it is to heat up the planet really fast.” — Bill McKibben watch video

Eliot Spitzer to the Koch brothers: You’re entitled to your own opinion, but ‘facts do matter’

October 15, 2012
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David Koch. Photo by Marc Stamas/Getty Images  

“It would be nice if the wild claims of the Koch brothers were tethered to facts.” —Eliot Spitzer watch video

Ed Markey: Republican stance on climate change is ‘a sad state of affairs for that party’

September 12, 2012
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Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at Watson Truck and Supply in Hobbs, N.M., on Aug. 23, 2012. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/GettyImages  

“The precondition to winning the nomination as a Republican in 2012 is to disclaim any belief in climate change — and that’s a sad state of affairs for that party.” —Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) watch video

Mitt Romney’s ‘pro-pollution’ energy platform: more drilling, more coal and fewer regulations

August 24, 2012
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Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event in Hobbs, N.M., on Aug. 23, 2012. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images  

“Everything that could reduce pollution and make people healthier, he’s against. If it’s pro-pollution and makes the oil companies richer, that’s what he’s for.” —Joe Romm watch video

‘A contaminant to our democracy’: ‘Gasland’ director Josh Fox warns of the dangers of fracking

July 30, 2012
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Protestors hold signs against fracking during a demonstration outside of the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters on July 25, 2012 in Sacramento, Calif. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images  

“You’re gonna be trading water for gas.” —Josh Fox watch video

Exxon Mobil ‘decades behind’ as NAACP moves forward on LGBT rights

May 21, 2012
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A sign at a Mobil gas station in Pismo Beach, California. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images  

“They are decades behind in adopting the principles of corporate leadership that so many Fortune 500 companies have already adopted because it’s the right thing to do for business.” — Tico Almeida watch video

‘Enough is enough’: Bernie Sanders aims to eliminate tax breaks for ‘Big Oil’

May 14, 2012
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Logos of the five biggest oil companies in the U.S. Photos courtesy Getty Images  

“In some years, some of the large oil companies — after making billions of dollars in profit — pay absolutely nothing in federal income tax. That is clearly wrong.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) watch video

Bob Cavnar warns Congress has ‘actually gone backwards’ on offshore drilling safety since BP spill

April 20, 2012
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An oiled brown pelican tries to take flight from Barataria Bay on June 6, 2010 near Grand Isle, La. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images  

“BP could have actually walked away from this whole thing and put it all on the American people … The legislature has not fixed that liability cap. It still remains today.” watch video

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