2010: BP, Cancun, and the secret Green Revolution

James S Murray
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BP's name was dragged through the mud, Cancun stepped back from the brink, and the low carbon economy quietly went about its business

For three months this summer a rupture in the sea bed pumped millions and millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. No one knows precisely how much toxic oil was pumped into one of the world's...

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