British Petroleum (BP) Shames Itself With Green Ads and Disastrous Policy
I’ve written before about oil companies, chemical firms and pharmaceutical giants who grease the double-page spreads of magazines with ‘green-speak’ while they poison and flim-flam the public in the day-to-day reality of their business practices. It's a favorite subject of mine.
I’ve written before about oil companies, chemical firms and pharmaceutical giants who grease the double-page spreads of magazines with ‘green-speak’ while they poison and flim-flam the public in the day-to-day reality of their business practices. It's a favorite subject of mine.
There is no relaxing. In between leakages and poisonings, mass deaths and side-effects, the beat goes on. British Petroleum leads the A-list most grievous offenders. Kari Lydersen writes in today’s Washington Post;
WHITING, Ind. -- A proposal to allow BP to greatly increase the amount of pollutants it discharges into Lake Michigan from its refinery here has prompted a bitter war of words between officials in Illinois and Indiana.
Illinois …