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5 Most Important Findings of the Presidential Oil Spill Investigation
The presidential oil spill panel released its full report this week, and it included a slew of recommendations for reforming how the government oversees the oil industry's dangerous offshore operations. News of
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Just the Greed... Alabama Surfers Tell More Stories From The Gulf Oil Spill (Video)
It's a new year, nearly nine months on since the start of the Gulf oil spill, and NRDC has released a new video in their Stories From The Gulf series. Produced in collaboration with StoryCorps and Bridge the Gulf, this latest one has teenage brothers
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BP, Halliburton Likely to Face Criminal Charges Over Spill
In light of the presidential report on the Gulf oil spill that's due to be released next week, speculation is running rampant that the companies involved -- BP, Halliburton, and Transocean -- could soon be facing criminal
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Oil Spill Panel: Failures that Led to Disaster are 'Likely to Recur'
The presidential oil spill panel is gearing up to release its final report on the BP disaster, and it isn't pulling any punches. Chief among the findings is that one of the primary causes of the spill were "bad
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Obama to Let 13 Oil Companies Drill Offshore With No Environmental Review
If there was anything that Obama impressed upon the American public in the wake of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, it was that if offshore drilling was to continue, it must be safer and better scrutinized. A
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Where'd All the Oil from the BP Spill Go?
There was plenty of anger and eye-rolling when the Obama administration announced that its team had determined that over half of the oil from the BP spill was "gone". Today, the federal government sticks by that number (it
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Tarballs Still Washing Up on Gulf Coast
There's no doubt that the impact of the BP Gulf spill will be felt for years to come. But you'd be forgiven for thinking that the oil itself was no longer of concern -- both the Obama administration and BP itself have pushed an overly sunny
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Stephen Baldwin Sues Kevin Costner Over BP Oil Machine Deal
One of the few amusing side notes in the BP Gulf spill saga was Kevin Costner riding to the rescue with an oil-sucking machine his scientist brother had built. Even more surprising was news
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Greenpeace Unveils Gulf Spill-Themed Board Game
Just in time for Christmas, everyone's favorite radical environmental activist group has whipped up a Gulf spill-themed board game that pits Greenpeace against the "evil" oil companies. There's no word whether Greenpeace's game, Deep Sea Desperation,
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Bobby Jindal's BP Spill Response a Big $200 Million Waste, Comission Finds
When I was down in the Gulf, one of the first things I reported on was Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's plan to construct giant islands to protect the barrier islands from the incoming oil slick. The plan sounded highly
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US Sues BP Over Gulf Oil Spill - Seeks All Clean Up & Damage Costs
Saying that "violations of safety and operational regulations" led to the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon and the subsequent largest oil spill in US history, the US Department of Justice and Environmental
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BP Gulf Spill the #1 Twitter Trend in 2010
There were 25 billion 140-character tweets sent out in 2010, and more of them were concerned with the BP Gulf Spill than any other topic. Twitter has just released its list of the top 10 tweets for 2010, and it's a pretty
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FDA Underestimating Gulf Residents' Carcinogen Exposure From Eating Seafood: NRDC
Something to bring the horror of the Gulf oil spill back fresh to memory: The NRDC says that the FDA is grossly underestimating the exposure to carcinogens in
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Breaking: Ban on Offshore Drilling is Back! Sort of.
President Obama can't seem to make up his mind about banning offshore drilling -- does he want a drilling moratorium in place or not? Now, it once again looks like he does -- sort of, anyway. The White House is
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Gulf Fishermen Haul in Oil-Covered Shrimp from Newly Opened Waters (Video)
Most of the waters in the Gulf of Mexico have just been reopened to fishermen -- though the jury's still out as to whether anyone will want to eat their catch. The shrimping boat Our Mother just returned from its first excursion to
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Want to Drill for Oil in Greenland? That'll be $2 Billion
Now that the whole BP spill debacle is over and done with -- since the oil's all gone and every Gulf resident is again healthy, happy, and properly reimbursed -- let's get back to the business of
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BP CEO: We Were Unprepared for Spill
The big news on the BP spill front today is little more than an admission of the obvious: Ex-BP CEO Tony Hayward (of the "I want my life back" fame) told the BBC that his company was indeed unprepared for the
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Dead Coral Found in Deepwater Near BP Oil Spill Well
If BP was hoping that "out of sight, out of mind" would help memories of the Deepwater Horizon gulf oil spill disaster fade, news from an ongoing NOAA exploration of coral communities in the deep gulf sea
