The inside story of Shell’s push to drill in the Arctic

Grist
By Barry YeomanDec 10, 2015, 8:03 pm228 pts
Last May, four months before the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell suspended exploration in offshore Alaska, Christopher Putnam needed to get something off his chest. Putnam is 44, originally from Texas, a trained wildlife biologist who also served as an Army infantry sergeant during the Iraq War. For almost six…

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