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Staff / Truthdig Apr 30, 2010 Just a month after President Obama's rightward lunge into the realm of political appeasement known as offshore drilling, the administration reinstituted a ban on new drilling as it investigates the causes of the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq’s Oil for Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Feb 20, 2010 In an announcement that was one part election hackery and one part good domestic politics, the Iraqi prime minister has declared that his country will not sell the rights to any more of its oil fields to foreign companies, a move that signals an intent by Iraq to develop its own national oil industry. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Can Nukes Save the Planet? Not So Fast

Staff / Truthdig Jul 17, 2007 You may have seen the bumper stickers: "Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Power." With oil prices high and the planet cooking, some prominent green voices want us to reconsider nuke plants. Long before Monday's earthquake in Japan started a nuclear plant fire (causing a radioactive water leak), writer Rebecca Solnit was trying to stop this line of thinking in its tracks, calling it defeatist and naive. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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Don’t Drill, Baby, Drill

Iraq’s Oil for Iraq

Can Nukes Save the Planet? Not So Fast