Tag: Oil Spill - Page 11
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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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Canada NOT PREPARED for Major Oil Spill, Environment Commissioner Warns
Image: NASA, Public domain. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Barrel of Cure... Canada has the longest coastline in the world (well, unless you want to be clever and get into the coastline paradox), touching three different oceans, and one of them (the
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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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Deep Water Corals Dead and Dying; Gulf Oil Spill to Blame (Video)
While the news coverage has died down, the lingering impacts on wildlife of the Deep Horizon oil spill are still being uncovered. That includes what's going on far under the surface of the water
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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
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More Stories From the Gulf Oil Spill: Shrimp Fisherman One of the Forgotten Victims (Video)
A couple weeks ago we shared a couple of the touching and sobering videos that NRDC, StoryCorps and Bridge the Gulf have been producing, reminding us that even though the Gulf oil spill may be off the front page right now, the effects on communities is
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Cost of BP Spill Balloons to $40 Billion
BP announced today that it now expects the cost of the Gulf spill to be $7.7 billion more than it initially anticipated, bringing the total expense close to $40 billion. Back in July, when the
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Halliburton, BP Knew Cement was Faulty Weeks Before Gulf Spill
And yet another chapter emerges in the seemingly never-ending saga of corporate malfeasance and complete disregard for human and operational safety that's fast-rising as the legacy of the BP spill. In this latest
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Another BP Oil Rig is a "Ticking Time Bomb": Whistleblower
While there's still some fuzziness around what precisely caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to explode -- a series of malfunctions, design flaws, and human errors all played a role -- we can agree all agree on
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"People are Dropping Dead" from BP Dispersants: Toxicologist
The most controversial--and damaging--legacy the BP spill may leave may not be the oil-wracked shores around the Gulf of Mexico or the tragic deaths of 11 workers who were on the Deepwater Horizon rig when it
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Artist Prints Posters With Oil from BP Spill (Video)
It's a cliched slogan applied to a novel idea -- and the result is a memorable bit of anti-oil spill message (not to mention a surefire PR coup). Artist Anthony Burrill took the ageless adage "Oil & Water Do Not Mix", created a
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"We Didn't Know the Impacts" of Dispersants on Sea Life: Obama Admin
As the director of the US Geological Survey and leader of the scientific response to the BP Gulf spill, Marcia McNutt had some interesting things to say about the disaster when she spoke last week at this year's
