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Cleanup Work After BP Oil Spill Ends in 3 States
(NEW ORLEANS) — Cleanup work has ended in three of the states affected by BP PLC's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Monday. The...
Oil’s Well That Ends Well
Puzzling placement in Monday’s New York Times of this story detailing how China is sucking as much petroleum as it can out of Iraq. We noted on Battleland more...
House Passes GOP Bill to Speed Pipeline Approval
(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas...
Mediterranean Diet Better Than Low-Fat Diet In Keeping Aging Brains Sharp
Thank the olive oil or the nuts, but something about the Mediterranean diet could help older brains to act young again. There's plenty of evidence that the...
Forget the IRS — There’s an Olive-Oil Scandal Afoot
Credibility problems? Check. Overreach? Check. Finger-pointing? You betcha
Photo Essays
North Dakota, a Portrait of an Oil Boom
North Dakota’s oil boom has been called everything from the region’s equivalent of a gold rush, to its version of Silicon Valley. And it’s all thanks to a the...
LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945
Oil. A simple word that for much of the 20th century, and well into the 21st, has meant unimaginable wealth for a very few; plentiful and (for a time, at least)...
Time.com Specials
Top 10 Celebrity Do-Gooders
Having spent $24 million building machines that extract oil out of water, Kevin Costner hopes to help clean up the Gulf Coast. TIME looks at some of the most...
The Dirty Dozen: Whom to Blame for the Oil Spill
There's no shortage of folks to point a finger at
Articles from Around the Web
Mexican Oil Producer Pemex Says Bomb Threat a' False Alarm'
Mexico's state oil producer, Pemex, on Tuesday evacuated its Mexico City headquarters, the site of a deadly blast in January, but later said it was a false alarm....
World Briefing | Africa: United Nations Soldier in Sudan Is Slain
A United Nations peacekeeper was killed on Friday in Sudan's main oil region when shells struck a logistics base, a United Nations spokesman said. ...
Huge Petroleum Coke Pile Makes Way Back to Canada
A Canadian electrical power plant, owned by Nova Scotia Power, is chipping away at the three-story-high, blocklong pile of petroleum coke on Detroit's waterfront. ...
Puma to Sell Gasoline- Ethanol Mix in Puerto Rico
A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto Rico. ...
