Tag: Gulf Oil Spill - Page 8
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What a Waste of an Oil Disaster
With media coverage of the country's worst oil spill fading away, recent decisions on how to handle tens of thousands of tons of boom and oily waste are going to affect people along the Gulf for years to
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Déjà Vu All Over Again: Offshore Oil Platform Explodes in Gulf of Mexico [Updated x5]
Image: Google Maps Thankfully, No Deaths This Time An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. All 13 people who were on
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Alexandra Cousteau, the Ocean Ambassador (Podcast)
"We all live downstream from one another," says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea. She's the host of Planet Green's Blue August,
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Stop Focusing on Oil Barons as 'Greedy Bastards' - Lisa Margonelli Talks About the Political Chemistry of Oil
Recorded back in June but now just posted on the TED site, this 17-minute talk by Lisa Margonelli of the New America Foundation Energy Policy Initiative. really does a great job at drilling down on what it's going to take to actually start moving away
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Gulf Oil Plume Gone, Eaten By Newly Discovered Microbes
In what seems a deus ex machina or perhaps
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Innovative Mapping Project Tracks Gulf Oil With Kites and Balloons (Slideshow)
Though a cap has sealed the leak, the Gulf oil spill disaster is still far from over. However, in the frantic days after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon platform and the dire months that
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Innovative Mapping Project Tracks Gulf Oil With Kites and Balloons
Though a cap has sealed the leak, the Gulf oil spill disaster is still far from over. However, in the frantic days after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon platform and the dire months that came after, lessons have been learned—about the power o
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Feelgoodz Flip-Flops An Unwitting Casualty of Gulf Oil Spill
While not exactly on the same scale as fishing and tourism taking a huge hit from the Gulf oil spill, Change.org highlights an unwitting and unexpected casualty of it all: Feelgoodz flip-flops. The ethically-sourced, all natural rubber, footwear
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Sylvia Earle on the Gulf Disaster and Saving the Seas (Podcast)
She's truly one of the ocean's best friends. Sylvia Earle's career--and it's an epic one-- has been all about protecting and exploring the sea she loves so deeply. Earle served as chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Gulf Oil Plumes More Toxic to Microorganisms Than Thought
Preliminary results from experiments done by University of South Florida scientists on the toxicity of microscopic drops of oil in the undersea plumes from the BP spill show that they may be more toxic than previously believed. The
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Nearly 80% of Oil From Gulf Spill Remains in Water, Threatens Ecosystem: Independent Analysis
A new report from the University of Georgia and the Georgia Sea Grant contends that the amount of oil remaining in the water in the wake of the Gulf oil spill is far higher than reported. In fact 70-79% of oil not
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BP Fined a Record $50 Million for Texas Refinery Explosion
To all those who've voiced concern that the federal government is just being too hard on poor ol' BP (here's looking at you Rep. Barton), perhaps you should take note of the following: There's a reason that BP needs to
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BP Spill Oil Already Entering the Gulf Food Chain
The recent discovery of trace amounts of oil in blue crab larvae has left experts forecasting dire news for the Gulf ecosystem. It's evidence that the oil from the spill loosed from the Deepwater Horizon explosion has already
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Worst Damage From the BP Spill May be Done in the Deep Sea
The challenges presented by the BP spill that we occupy ourselves with are too often surface deep: the oiled birds, soiled coastline, out of work tour guides, and political wrangling make for
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$20 Billion BP Spill Fund Finalized, But 40,000 Claims Still Ignored
The $20 billion escrow fund that Obama negotiated with BP is now being finalized, and BP is preparing to deposit the first $3 billion into it. The fund will help pay for the many claims being filed
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Six-Month Deep Water Drilling Moratorium Having Little Adverse Impact On Jobs, Rig Siting
Remember all those dire predictions
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Steven Chu: Static Kill "Completed Successfully"
US Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has just made an announcement on the current state of the operations to permanently plug the blown-out well below the Deepwater Horizon site. Chu has been instrumental in the spill's response,
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4,500 Animals Killed in BP Spill ... And Counting
As BP moves to permanently seal the blown-out well that unleashed 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the focus is turning to the toll of the disaster. It should be said that the true and total toll will not
