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Pirates could cause the next deep-sea disaster on the horizon

Pirates could cause the next deep-sea disaster on the horizon

The Deepwater Horizon platform burns down on April 21, 2010.Photo: Gerald Herbert (PA) The network of offshore oil and gas facilities in the United States is at serious and growing risk from a potentially devastating cyberattack, according to a government watchdog. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report last week, finding that …

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How to pay for climate justice when polluters have all the money

How to pay for climate justice when polluters have all the money

The just-concluded climate summit in Egypt hit head-on with one of the world’s biggest structural problems: most of the money is in the North, but most of the needs are found in the South. Nearly three hundred years of burning fossil fuels have produced much of this Northern wealth, and now the resulting greenhouse gases …

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