Spike Lee screens oil spill film in San Diego (AP)
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| AP - Spike Lee has screened his new four-hour documentary on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him. ... |
Gulf oil spill: Did Coast Guard allow excessive toxic dispersants?
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 | Documents released by a congressional committee Saturday show that the U.S. Coast Guard appeared to flout a May 25 Obama administration directive that sought to limit the use of chemical dispersants on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico oil... ... |
Coast Guard allows toxic chemical use on Gulf oil (AP)
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 | AP - The U.S. Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directive that the chemicals be used only rarely on surface waters, congr ... |
Oil Spill Campaign Facades - Gulf 'Greenwashing' Provides Clean-Up Support for the Wrong Cause (VIDEO)
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 | (TrendHunter.com) Greenwashing was unfortunately implemented within the 'Be rhe One' oil-spill clean-up campaign. Featuring numerous celebrities, including Sandra Bullock and Blake Lively, the PSA appears to be convincing… ... |
UC Berkeley's BP Deal Tainted By Oil Spill: $500 Million Research Agreement At Stake
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| BERKELEY, Calif. — BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley's research partnership with the... ... |
AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar keeps oil drill ban, for now (AP)
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 | AP - The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 mil ... |
Congressman: too much dispersant used in oil spill (AP)
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 | AP - As BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, congressional investigators railed the company and Coast Guard for part of the cleanup effort, saying too much toxic chemical dispersant was used. ... |
Oil-soaked waste worries landfills' neighbors
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| At a sprawling landfill some 50 miles from the oil-spotted coastline, trash bags brimming with tar balls, oil-soaked boom, sand and tangles of sea grass are dumped.Though workers in the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history wear protective ... |
Gulf Outsiders Little Understand What is Happening to People Inside
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 | by Tim Gautreaux, Guardian Those who live in Louisiana all their lives develop an understanding of disaster. We know a hurricane can turn over hundreds of offshore oil rigs in one pass and then come to land and do the same to our homes. Refineries e ... |
Pipe break that caused Michigan oil spill is found
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| Officials say they've located the pipeline break that caused hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil to spew into a major river in southern Michigan. Oil spill - Michigan - Pipeline transport - Environment - Energy ... |
The Gulf Oil Spill and Seafood Safety
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| Some of the fishing areas in the Gulf of Mexico are reopening. In fact, this week Louisiana reopened commercial fishing in areas East of the Mississippi. In the coming weeks, we can expect that many more areas will reopen to recreational... ... |
Congress to probe Michigan oil spill (Reuters)
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| Reuters - A U.S. congressional committee will probe the spill of more than 800,000 gallons (3 million liters) of oil from an Enbridge Inc pipeline in southern Michigan this week, a Michigan congressman said on Saturday. ... |
House approves oil spill reform bill (Reuters)
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 | Reuters - The House of Representatives on Friday approved the toughest reforms ever to offshore energy drilling practices, as Democrats narrowly pushed through an election-year response to BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. ... |
House approves oil spill bill; stalled in Senate (AP)
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 | AP - The House has approved a bill to boost safety standards for offshore drilling and remove a liability cap for oil spills, but a partisan fight in the Senate will likely delay action on a response to the Gulf oil spill until Congress returns from ... |
Michigan Oil Spill Company Also Building Largest Solar Plant in North America
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 | Credit: First Solar . Enbridge, the Canadian company behind the recent oil spill in Michigan's Calhoun County near Marshall, just happens to also be behind construction of the largest photovoltaic solar energy facility in North America. ... Read the ... |
House passes oil-spill response bills
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| by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to overhaul offshore-drilling safety rules and protect whistleblowing workers in a sweeping response to the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The White House-ba ... |
House approves bill on drilling, oil spills (AP)
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| AP - The House approved a bill Friday to boost safety standards for offshore drilling, remove a federal cap on economic liability for oil spills and impose new fees on oil and gas production. ... |
House approves bill on drilling, oil spills
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| The House approved a bill Friday to boost safety standards for offshore drilling, remove a federal cap on economic liability for oil spills and impose new fees on oil and gas production. Offshore drilling - Natural gas - Oil spill - Oil - Business ... |
House votes to end offshore drilling moratorium (Reuters)
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 | Reuters - The House of Representatives on Friday voted to end the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling for oil companies that meet new federal safety requirements. ... |
Oil Spill Legislation Passes House
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| WASHINGTON — The House has approved a bill to boost safety standards for offshore drilling and remove a $75 million cap on economic liability for... ... |
BP to try well kill Tuesday (Reuters)
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 | Reuters - BP Plc said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as the House of Representatives voted to toughen regulation of offshore energy drilling. ... |
House Begins Debating Oil Spill Reform Bill
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| The U.S. House of Representatives began debating legislation on Friday to reform the oil industry's offshore drilling practices in response to the BP oil spill. ... |
House takes up oil spill legislation (AP)
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| AP - The House has begun debate on a bill to boost safety standards for offshore drilling and remove a $75 million cap on economic liability for oil spills. ... |
La. foundation will administer oil workers fund (AP)
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| AP - BP says it has picked a charitable foundation in Louisiana to administer a $100 million fund for oil workers struggling because of a federal moratorium on deepwater drilling. ... |
House to take up offshore drilling reform bill (Reuters)
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| Reuters - Three months after the catastrophic oil rig explosion that sent millions of gallons of crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. House of Representatives was poised on Friday to debate legislation clamping down on the industry's offsh ... |
