Sentences with phrase «gulf oil crisis»

Tom Zeller Jr. and John Broder wrote a piece of news analysis that ran on the front page of the New York Times, suggesting that many of the fears surrounding the gulf oil crisis were overblown.

One of the most alarming stories to emerge from the entire BP Gulf oil crisis has been the company's penchant for using toxic chemical dispersants to try to break up and spread out the oil — and that the federal

Not exact matches

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

Also, seeing as oil is a concern with the recent Gulf crisis — did you know it takes 2/3 cup of oil to make a single disposable diaper?

From a public policy standpoint, however, Governor Paterson's ongoing reaction to the state's crisis is no different from BP's reaction to the Gulf oil spill,» Sisto said in a press release.

(CNN)-- Republican Marco Rubio called the massive oil slick headed toward the Gulf Coast «a crisis» but the Senate hopeful refused to criticize the Obama administration's response to the oil spill.

Academic scientists quoted in stories late last week by NPR and The New York Times suggested that the amount of oil spewing out from the broken pipe on the gulf floor may be much more than 5000 barrels (794,936 gallons) per day — the official estimate of both BP and the government for the first 3 weeks of the crisis, before BP made any progress in stanching the flow.

The study, published in the journal Aquatic Toxicology, is titled «Chemical dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis are cytotoxic and genotoxic to sperm whale cells.»

The disastrous oil crisis still unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico is only the most recent reminder that America is overdue to start a major transition to a clean energy economy.

If at any point during your observation of this interminable oil crisis in the Gulf you've found yourself thinking, well, it looks like we should probably do something to start curbing our national dependence on this stuff, know that you're not alone.

An amusing footnote to the BP Gulf spill surfaced yesterday, when a blogger noticed that the oil company had (badly) photoshopped pictures of its supposed crisis command center in Austin, Texas.

Responders conducted 412 flights to spray chemical dispersants onto oil floating atop the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon crisis in 2010.

Dragon has partnered with the Surfrider Foundation in an effort to help the oil spill crisis in the Gulf.

Garry has extensive experience in Critical Incident Stress Management, and served widely with businesses and individuals as a crisis counselor throughout the Greater New Orleans area and the Gulf Coast region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.