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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Oil spill at UC Berkeley sends fuel into Strawberry Creek

A worker places absorbant plume onto oil in Strawberry Creek.

More than a thousand gallons of diesel fuel — of the 1,700 spilled total — escaped from Stanley Hall and could have entered Strawberry Creek, according to campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore. After an equipment failure Saturday caused a tank to overflow in the basement of Stanley Hall on the UC Read More…

Editorials

Friday, February 1, 2013

Not another tax, not now

UNIVERSITY ISSUES: A potential state oil severance tax proposed by students is unlikely to pass on the heels of Proposition 30’s recent victory.

Now is not the right time to push for the passage of a state oil severance tax. Certainly, a conversation about the issue is warranted — California is the fourth-largest oil producer in the country and one of the only such states without a severance tax. But passing the tax Read More…