The Obama Administration has granted authorization for British Petroleum (BP) to drill in the Gulf of Mexico despite the uncertain and incomplete clean up of the biggest oil spill in US history occurring in April 2010. Presently over 25,000 abandoned oil wells exist in the Gulf, some that have been there since the early 1940s. [...]

On August 29, 2011 after the tenth day of protest in Lafayette Park in Washington D.C. Protestors continue to clash about the suspected 700 billion dollar pipeline.  The Keystone XL 700,000 to 800,000 barrels of oil from Canada’s southwestern district to the Gulf of Mexico.  This Pipeline will be the biggest built in the United [...]

Celebrates 35 Years In 1976 Dr. Carl Jensen Founded Project Censored. We are the longest running media research news group in the country.   We are stiill at it and the top Censored News stories from 1976 are still important today. 1: Trilateral Commission & Jimmy Carter 2: DNA Corporate Control 3: Banned Pesticides & [...]

Talk about the fox guarding the hen house: The same U.S. fossil fuel energy companies that have been prosecuted for violating the Clean Air Act are orchestrating the country’s environmental policy and/or spreading disinformation about greenhouse gases. This leads to more frequent extreme weather events, larger, more favorable conditions for pests and pathogens, and in [...]

Shoppers worldwide are using 500 billion to one trillion single-use plastic bags per year. The average use time of a plastic bag is 12 minutes. Plastic bags pollute our waters, smother wetlands and entangle and kill animals. This eventually affects our health because larger animals eat small plastic-laden creatures and plastics work their way up [...]

In the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have drilled as many as 12 million holes across the United States in search of oil and gas. Many of those holes were plugged after they dried up. But hundreds of thousands were simply abandoned and forgotten, often leaving no records of their existence. Government reports [...]

Less than one year after the worst oil mishap in U.S. history, BP began running televised commercials featuring cheerful Gulf of Mexico fishermen as if the 185 million gallons of oil from the BP oil spill of 2010 was just a tiny drop in a big ocean that was quickly cleaned up. The commercials painted [...]

People’s Permanent Tribunal condemns the actions of these multinationals Dozens of NGOs and organizations defending the rights of indigenous people have accused three big oil companies of disregarding the rights of the indigenous peoples of the North of the Peruvian Amazon. The explorations and projects that these companies are carrying out in the so-called Blocks [...]

A federal jury in Salt Lake City Utah has convicted environmental activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for disrupting an auction of over 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling.  He faces up to 10 years in prison.  DeChristopher was charged in December 2008 with infiltrating a public auction and disrupting [...]

Due to oil exports from Libya being cut by, “ 850,000 and one million barrels per day,” oil prices have increased dramatically and “higher oil prices affect all aspects of the food production chain, from fertilizer to transport”. This has led to huge increases in the price of domestic food all around the world. The [...]