Feds indict oil spill contractors over undocumented workers
Photo: Unidentified workers from Hallmark Industrial Services take a lunch break from oil spill clean up work in August of 2010. LANSING — The federal government has indicted an owner and a manager of...
View ArticleIn Colorado, fracking near schools
ERIE, COLO. — Flaggers in bright yellow vests stopped traffic on the parkway in Erie, Colo., Wednesday as a convoy of semi-trailer trucks rumbled toward Red Hawk Elementary hauling sound barriers to...
View ArticleColoradans protest fracking near schools
Olivia Cusimano, 6, leads a protest against hydraulic fracturing in Erie on Saturday. (Photo by Troy Hooper) ERIE, COLO. — With black whiskers painted across her cheeks, 6-year-old Olivia Cusimano...
View ArticleResidents of Longmont, Colo., seek fracking ban
Editor’s note: This is the third installment in an ongoing Colorado Independent series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here and the second part here. LONGMONT, COLO. — As she...
View ArticlePolitical battle lines drawn over fracking in Colo.
Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in The Colorado Independent’s ongoing series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here, the second part here and the third part here....
View ArticleCongressman seeks to increase distance between fracking and schools
Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment in a series on hydraulic fracturing near schools. Read the first part here, the second part here, the third part here. and the fourth part here....
View ArticleExperts explore public policy implications of fires
Fires in High Park in Poudre Canyon about 15 miles from Ft. Collins, Colo. Official Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Jess Geffre. ASPEN, COLO. — Public policy and political will must shift as...
View ArticleEnbridge, regulators faulted in Michigan oil spill
NTSB photo of ruptured Enbridge pipeline. LANSING — The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said the massive oil spill that contaminated nearly 40 miles of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan...
View ArticleThe (Alleged) Kleptocrat’s Webmaster
Screen capture of the Qorvis-managed website of Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, featuring an image of Teodorin. Washington-based Qorvis Communications has continued to work on...
View ArticleMichigan Oil Spill Contractors Convicted on Immigration Crimes Linked to...
Unidentified members of a crew of Hallmark Industrial Services employees working on the oil spill in 2010. Photo provided to The American Independent by an anonymous source. Two men indicted for their...
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