4 Examples Of Corporate Welfare In Action

For all the talk of free markets and cutting deficits, American taxpayers are picking up a lot of tabs for their corporate bosses.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

While corporations are often painted as the independent drivers of the U.S. economic system, the beacons of small government success aren’t always void of government help, with some reaping success at the hands of taxpayers. In 2012, the government spent just shy of $50 billion on public service programs, including food assistance and social

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Ohio Becomes Latest Battleground In Oil Industry’s Quest To Tap Public Land

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is lease an expected 4,525 acres of an Ohio state park for fracking.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

In the oil industry’s latest effort to move into America’s state and national forests, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is poised to go with flow and lease an expected 4,525 acres of an Ohio state park for fracking by December. The Mohican State Park and Mohican-Memorial State Forest are the latest targets of the fracking industry. According to

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Waterless Fracking Moves Into The Market, With Its Own Set Of Safety Issues

Dry-fracking is expected to make its way to California communities soon if the oil industry has its way.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

As debate rages on over the health impacts associated with petroleum companies’ practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the industry is coming up with a new but equally controversial technique to get at oil and natural gas deposits thousands of feet below the surface of the earth. Californians are bracing for a new form of fracking that

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Nebraska’s County Board Gather Nerve As TransCanada Buys Keystone XL Support

Local elected officials along the pipeline’s route are caught in the midst of a battle between landowners and a foreign oil corporation.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

As the national debate surrounding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline makes headlines in large cities throughout the country, local elected officials along the pipeline’s route are caught in the midst of a battle between landowners and a large foreign oil corporation. “They have to take into consideration the safety of the citizens, but also the

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Ohio’s ‘Dirty Secret’: Residents Balk At Becoming Oil Industry’s Waste Dump

Ohio has been the site of a growing fracking fluid disposal industry that enjoys a steady stream of business from neighboring Pennsylvania.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

For those living in Ohio, hydraulic fracturing wells aren’t the only cause of concern in the nation’s quest to leave no oil formation un-fracked. The state has been the site of a growing fracking fluid disposal industry that enjoys a steady stream of business from neighboring Pennsylvania. Last year, more than 14 million barrels of the toxic waste

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Train Derailment, Explosion In Quebec Highlights Oil Industry Dangers

It’s the worst case scenario of incidents oil industry skeptics have been cautioning since the beginning of the North American oil boom.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

On Saturday, a train hauling 72 cars of North Dakota crude oil derailed in a small Quebec town just north of the Maine border, creating an explosion that destroyed more than 30 buildings and left more than 15 dead and 37 missing. Authorities say those who are missing may never be found, as their bodies may have been vaporized. More than 26,000

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