MERCHANT OF DEATH
When Robert L. Waltrip’s time comes, he will likely get the same treatment accorded any of his customers at Houston’s Service Corporation International (SCI).
U.S. CANCELS INDONESIAN MINE’S INSURANCE
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation has canceled $100 million in political risk insurance for a huge gold mining project in Indonesia that is operated by Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold Inc.
MEXICO PURCHASES US OIL AND GAS AS DOMESTIC ENERGY DEMAND
Long before ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), United States energy producers were finding a fertile market in Mexico.
CARBON TAX WOULD HELP TEXAS
Vice presidential candidate Al Gore has recommended a tax on carbon-based fuels as a way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, cut air pollution and save energy.
OIL WASTES TAINT WATER SUPPLY
When a Texaco pipeline broke and spilled a million gallons of crude oil, ruining six acres of his grassland and contaminating his groundwater, Rex Pigmon got mad.
OIL WASTE PITS TRAP UNWARY BIRDS
(Big Spring, Texas) Cash Schriefer says he knew the bird he was fishing out of the oil waste pit in southern Oklahoma in late January was big. He thought it was a goose at first, says the United States Fish and Wildlife Service special agent.
CRACKDOWN DUE ON FOUL WATER HOLES: BIRDS FALL VICTIM TO SLIME IN 3 STATES
From the air, the small lakes and lagoons that dot the oil fields of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico look inviting to migrant birds.
