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1. Send this info, with your sources, to John Ryan at Seattle's KUOW.

Here's a transcript from NPR's All Things Considered, detailing how Tesoro has ducked paying any penalty for a 2010 refinery explosion killing 7 people. The reporter on this story is investigative reporter, John Ryan, from KUOW, Seattle.

He won a national award for investigative journalism for nailing Shell Oil a couple of years back and his reporting triggered a congressional investigation.
http://kuow.org/post/sea-trial-leaves-shells-arctic-oil-spill-gear-crushed-beer-can

I suggest you send him the information from your post, along with your sources.

John has won national awards for KUOW as a freelancer (check out "As the Sound Churns&quot and now as a staff reporter, including the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi awards for Public Service in Radio Journalism and for Investigative Reporting. He believes democracy only works when journalism holds the powerful accountable for their words and actions. He says he's happy to have one of the few investigative reporting jobs in public radio and to get to explore new ways of telling investigative stories at KUOW.org.

John welcomes story ideas and feedback from listeners.``
http://kuow.org/people/john-ryan

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/13/340153423/years-after-tragedy-tesoro-ducks-penalties-for-refinery-deaths?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Years After Tragedy, Tesoro Ducks Penalties For Refinery Deaths

by John Ryan
August 13, 2014 4:34 PM ET

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4 min 34 sec

Workers at American oil refineries die on the job about three times as often as their counterparts in Europe. As John Ryan of KUOW reports, when accidents do kill American workers, the companies they work for rarely pay a heavy price. Case in point: Tesoro, which hasn't incurred a significant penalty since its Washington state refinery exploded in 2010, killing seven people.

Also:http://kuow.org/post/four-years-after-deadly-blast-tesoro-mostly-unscathed