{"id":31704,"date":"2025-01-27T18:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/guardian-investigation-fuels-class-action-lawsuit-against-petro-giant\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:08:46","slug":"guardian-investigation-fuels-class-action-lawsuit-against-petro-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/guardian-investigation-fuels-class-action-lawsuit-against-petro-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian investigation fuels class action lawsuit against petro giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marathon Petroleum said a massive fire at its Louisiana refinery caused \u2018no offsite impacts\u2019. Reporting by the Guardian and Forensic Architecture raised doubts about this claim<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/sep\/09\/marathon-oil-fire-louisiana-cancer-alley\">The huge US toxic fire shrouded in secrecy: \u2018I taste oil in my mouth\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oil giant Marathon Petroleum is fighting an expanded class action lawsuit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/sep\/09\/marathon-oil-fire-louisiana-cancer-alley\">fueled by an investigation by the Guardian and Forensic Architecture<\/a>, which examined a massive toxic blaze at the company\u2019s sprawling refinery in south-west Louisiana in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the oil refinery, the third largest in America, caught fire for over three days in August 2023 after a large storage tank containing the toxic and flammable hydrocarbon naphtha leaked for more than 13 hours unbeknownst to the predominantly Black low-income communities that surround the facility.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/27\/marathon-oil-louisiana-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marathon Petroleum said a massive fire at its Louisiana refinery caused \u2018no offsite impacts\u2019. Reporting by the Guardian and Forensic Architecture raised doubts about this claim The huge US toxic fire shrouded in secrecy: \u2018I taste oil in my mouth\u2019 Oil giant Marathon Petroleum is fighting an expanded class action lawsuit fueled by an investigation &#8230; <a title=\"Guardian investigation fuels class action lawsuit against petro giant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/guardian-investigation-fuels-class-action-lawsuit-against-petro-giant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Guardian investigation fuels class action lawsuit against petro giant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}