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God does not exist, so to wait on him to fix our problems is as futile as as hoping to mop up
the gulf oil spill with a roll of paper towels.
Not exact matches
After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration teamed up
with the X-Prize Foundation to offer a $ 1.4 million prize to the group that produced the most efficient
oil - recovery solution.
With the
Gulf of Mexico
oil spill now the worst in US history, public pressure is growing on BP to contain and remove the ever - spreading slick.
Obama's reign began
with him having to deal
with one costly disaster after another, SARS, the
Gulf Oil Spill, Mortgage collapse, banks and huge car companies nearly going bankrupt and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The fire that caused an
oil rig to explode on Tuesday has resulted in a massive
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico,
with a
oil slick about 10 miles in diameter covering the ocean surface.
Artist / designer Anthony Burill has come up
with an interesting way to raise awareness and funds for the environmental damage on the
Gulf Coast from this summer's
oil spill.
After Barton's most impolitic statement at last week's Capitol Hill hearing on the
Gulf oil spill, the party was quick to jump online
with a plea to fund TV ads against Republicans «sympathetic» to the petroleum giant.
Minor scuffle in the online communications world: BP has purchased Google Ads on search terms related to the
Gulf oil spill (for example: «
oil spill»),
with its ads showing up at the top of the results column whenever people look for those keywords.
The
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico has threatened to turn into a geopolitical spat,
with British politicians increasingly irritated by President Obama's tough rhetoric.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just announced he has hired the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to represent the state pension fund in a class action against the
oil giant BP in connection
with the «disastrous» Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent
oil spill in the
GulF of Mexico.
He called on Americans not to confuse the Libyan Lockerbie bomber
with the
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
DiNapoli recently announced he had hired the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to represent the state pension fund in a class action lawsuit against the
oil giant BP in connection
with the «disastrous» Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
As bad as it is, BP's
Gulf oil spill dwindles compared
with gushers of the past.
The
oil spill will not just have an environmental impact — the catastrophe, along
with efforts to stop it, may reshape the geography of Louisiana's
Gulf coast
As part of a massive lawsuit sparked by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for BP asked to see thousands of internal e-mails and documents that researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had created as they worked
with the U.S. government and BP to determine the size of the historic
spill.
Compared
with the
spill from BP's Deepwater Horizon field in the
Gulf of Mexico, the
oil from the Hirokawa Maru is a drop in the ocean.
While the world waits to see if a «top kill» operation can seal off the devastating Deepwater Horizon
oil leak in the
Gulf, the staggering proposition of dealing
with the more than 11 million gallons of crude
spilled to date remains.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — As the
oil spill has spread in the
Gulf of Mexico, federal seafood toxicologists
with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been racing to sample clean sites ahead of the advancing slick.
With the
Gulf oil spill, we had organisms that were enriched during the
spill, and that were able to degrade
oil.
The accident also caused the worst
oil spill in U.S. history,
with over 200 million gallons of crude leaking into the
Gulf of Mexico by the time the well was finally capped 86 days later.
Mark Wahlberg is teaming up
with «Lone Survivor» director Peter Berg again to star in this action - packed story chronicling the devastating aftermath of the 2010
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Coastal residents are asking how long they'll be living
with the effects of BP's 2010
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Fresh off their collaboration on another depiction of recent American history (the
Gulf of Mexico
oil spill in «Deepwater Horizon»), Mark Wahlberg has teamed up
with writer - director Peter Berg for the season's newest contender.
When BP engaged
with investors after the
Gulf of Mexico
oil spill disaster, it made clear that its efforts were dedicated to costs — lowering the costs of litigation, lowering the costs of the judgments against it, and lowering the costs of its debt burden as it sought to lower interest expenses by turning unsecured debt into secured debt.
Morris Animal Foundation is currently working
with wildlife scientists to determine needs for wildlife health research that will result from the
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico and is prepared to grant money to research the long - term effects a disaster such as this could cause to native and endangered wildlife.
Brandon holds his PH.D in Transdisciplinary Art and Biology from Plymouth University and Zürich University of the Arts and Applied Sciences, and he is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University,
with a focus on the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon
Gulf of Mexico
oil spill.
«Five years in the making, Water is at once Burtynsky's most detailed and expansive project to date,
with images of the 2010
Gulf oil spill, step wells in India, dam construction in China, aquaculture, farming, and pivot irrigation systems,» said Susan M. Taylor, Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Oil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chos
Oil Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be ch
Spill Cleanup on the High Seas How quickly crews can react, how big a
spill is (or, in the case of the Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be ch
spill is (or, in the case of the
Gulf incident, an underground leak from an an exploration
oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do with the type of remediation or containment that will be chos
oil rig, as opposed to a production rig or boat), and weather conditions all have a lot to do
with the type of remediation or containment that will be chosen.
I talked about the lifting of the moratorium this afternoon
with Peter Lehner, the executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of «In Deep Water,» a new book on the
gulf oil spill.
The numerous technical and operational breakdowns that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon
oil rig explosion and
spill from the Macondo well in the
Gulf of Mexico suggest the lack of a suitable approach for managing the inherent risks, uncertainties, and dangers associated
with deepwater drilling operations and a failure to learn from previous «near misses.»
These efforts are part of 100 - 1000 partnership,
with the goal of building 100 new miles of oyster reefs and 1000 miles of replanted marshlands along the
Gulf in Alabama to make Alabama's coastal areas more resilient to impacts from hurricanes,
oil spills and climate change.100 - 1000 is a project that was formed in 2010 and grew out of the partnership of four conservation organizations including: Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, the Nature Conservancy and the Ocean Foundation.
The deep - sea exploitation of
oil and gas has been going on for a few decades now, and we've seen what can happen when things go wrong a few years ago in the
Gulf of Mexico
with the massive
oil spill that took place after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon
oil rig...
As we've seen
with the
Gulf of Mexico
oil spill, when something goes wrong deep underwater, it's very hard to fix things and minimize the damage.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident and
spill in the
Gulf of Mexico was a major setback for the offshore hydrocarbons industry; prospects for offshore
oil and gas have also been shaken by the shale revolution and by lower prices, and must cope
with longer - term uncertainties over demand.
The
spill, estimated to be roughly 4,000 barrels (or 168,000 gallons), began after a tanker vessel carrying heavy fuel
oil collided
with a cargo ship in Galveston Bay, an estuary connected to the
Gulf of Mexico.
With the
Gulf Spill of 2010, fundamental flaws in offshore energy permitting were also brought to light, in addition to the inadequacies of oil spill response p
Spill of 2010, fundamental flaws in offshore energy permitting were also brought to light, in addition to the inadequacies of
oil spill response p
spill response plans.
They brought stories of campaigns to get local food on campuses, to shut down coal plants and stop natural gas fracking, and they educated themselves
with speeches, documentaries, and stories from the front lines of the dirty energy battle — places like the
Gulf coast, which is still struggling from the aftermath of the
oil spill.
With BP in the news for their lies about the safety of chemical dispersant used during the
Gulf oil spill, it is hard not to think that Exxon is also lying to the public and their cleanup workers about the safety of the air and water poisoned by this
spill.
Hosted by Philippe Cousteau, chief oceans correspondent for Planet Green, and his sister, leading water conservationist Alexandra Cousteau, Blue August will address the plethora of issues associated
with the
oil spill in the
Gulf and water quality in general.
The recent
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico and recent coal - mine disasters (not to mention mountaintop removal) have reminded Americans of the risks associated
with oil drilling and coal mining.
By this point, nearly two months since the start of the BP
oil spill, you've probably seen a lot of video interviews
with people from the
Gulf Coast telling you how the disaster has royally screwed up their lives.
With thousands of gallons of
oil spilling into the
Gulf of Mexico everyday, this undeniable
We just got a glimmer of hope
with the BP
oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped — even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected — but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen after three months of
oil pouring into the
Gulf of Mexico.
No, it has nothing directly to do
with the BP
oil spill, but it won't help things... Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have just announced that the northern
Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone — that's the
Gulf Dead Zone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life — is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phew).
Which is why fishermen and charter boat captains who've lost their livelihoods, volunteer cleanup workers from around the
Gulf who are sick at the thought of their beaches getting coated
with oil, and environmental groups of every stripe working to protect gravely threatened ecosystems should come together to stop the
spill: Let's do it for the tired, beleaguered Tony.
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The dwarf seahorse, which resides in seagrass located throughout the
Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Caribbean, is threatened
with extinction from pollution caused by the
Gulf oil spill disaster.
Reporting from Washington —
With the
gulf oil spill creating political opportunity, Senate Democrats will begin crafting a sweeping energy bill this week that could include a first - ever, though more modest, cap on global - warming pollution, believing they must act now despite differences within their ranks and political jitters in an election year.
Bring us forward to today,
with the
Gulf of Mexico
oil spill in 2010 and the partial meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.