Tag: Oil Spill - Page 8
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Dispersants Used on BP Spill Contain Chemicals Associated with Cancer: New Report
Many of us sounded the alarm as soon as we learned of BP's plans to dump huge quantities of the chemical dispersant Corexit into the Gulf in an attempt to break up the oil slick. Experts were concerned, seeing as
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New BP Spill Feared in the Gulf of Mexico
A large sheen has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, and many are already pointing fingers at BP. Fears are percolating that oil is leaking from the supposedly sealed Macondo well, the
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Shell Oil Leak in North Sea Raises Memories of BP Gulf Oil Spill
Shell Oil has acknowledged an oil leak from a pipeline serving the Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea. As the leak arises on the line bringing oil back to the platform from the undersea well, news media in England and the
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BP Pipeline Spills Oil Onto Alaskan Tundra
BP can't seem to get enough of letting oil loose. It must be quite a rush -- dumping toxic liquids on pristine environments, all the explosions, breaking records for the largest offshore oil disaster in
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A Year Later, 530 Miles Of Gulf Coast Still Contaminated With Oil
Nearly a year after the Gulf oil spill and persistent PR on the part of BP to the contrary some 530 miles of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida remain contaminated by oil, a spokesperson for NOAA has told Bloomberg. At the height of the spill
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Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo Arrested Taking Action Against Arctic Oil Drilling (video)
After scaling the Cairn oil rig Leiv Eiriksson off the coast of Greenland and enduring a water cannon, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo was arrested Friday and taken into custody. Kumi's brave action came
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Using Dispersants Makes Oil Spills Worse, Scientists Find
I hate to say I told you so -- and I won't. Not exactly. But ever since I first discovered that there were myriad environmental and health risks involved in dumping a toxic chemical dispersant on the Gulf in
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Is Official BP Spill Death Toll Too Low? New Data Shows 1,200 Oiled Birds Found in Pensacola Alone
Everyone seems to be forgetting about the BP spill -- except, of course, for the millions of people still dealing with it every day. So, in an effort to prevent the event from vanishing from our collective memories
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House of Reps Passes Bill to Expand Offshore Drilling
Just weeks after the 1-year anniversary of the BP Gulf spill, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would force the US government to offer more offshore drilling leases to oil companies. All but
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Voters Want Clean Energy, Not Drilling, Poll Finds
I reported yesterday that there's a major push from the GOP to vastly expand offshore drilling and to loosen regulations to boot -- they have, evidently learned zilch from last year's catastrophic disaster in the Gulf
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GOP Launches Push to Expand Offshore Drilling
Remember that epic disaster that killed 11 people, soiled miles of coastline around the Gulf of Mexico, wiped out thousands of jobs, damaged the ecosystem there in ways that we're only just beginning to understand, and made
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Take a Look at How Deep the BP Spill's Impact Goes With NRDC's Interactive Graphic
As we all know, there's more to the BP spill than meets the eye. The extent of the damage wasn't just the thousands of birds that got oiled -- it goes much deeper. A good way to understand just how deep it goes is to play around with NRDC's cool
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In New Film, Residents of the Gulf Say Impact of Spill Persists
Screenshot from the documentary Stories from the Gulf. The film, which airs on Planet Green Saturday, April 23 at 2:30 p.m. EST, features interviews produced by NRDC and Bridge the Gulf and recorded by Story Corps. Robert Redford provides the opening
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Brother of Rig Worker Killed on Deepwater Horizon Makes Passionate Appeal to Congress (Video)
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig may have led to the greatest environmental disaster in American history, but let's not forget about some of the other devastating impacts it had -- for instance, it left 11 innocent men dead. In the above
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TreeHugger TV 2011: Philippe Cousteau On The Anniversary of the Gulf Oil Spill (Video)
It's been one year since the Gulf oil spill and as Philippe Cousteau explains in the video above, despite the fact that graphic disaster portion of the event is behind us, the damage is still not healed, the region still not recovered. As Philippe
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BP Spill One Year Later: The Biggest Unanswered Questions
Around this time one year ago, reports were trickling in that an oil rig owned by BP in the Gulf of Mexico had suffered a major explosion, and that over a dozen workers were missing. As the story unfolded over
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The Oil We Don't Spill Is More Ecologically Damaging Than The Oil We Do Spill
With all the recaps of what's happened (and not) one year on since the Gulf oil spill, Carl Safina is making the media rounds (via Mark Bittman in the New York Times, with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!) bringing
