Tar sands oil — even the name sounds bad. And it is bad. In fact, oil from tar sands is one of the most destructive, carbon-intensive and toxic fuels on the planet. Producing it releases three times ...

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Eventually, 588,000 gallons of toxic tar sands oil—almost an Olympic swimming pool’s worth—spilled into Kansas’s Mill Creek and onto surrounding farmland. It was the largest oil spill in the ...

It’s now even more climate-heating than the notorious Canada tar sands oil refined in California. The report comes as record heat and a megadrought bake the West — evidence of the dangerous global ...