Sentences with phrase «oil disaster like»

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When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

Take this example, illustrated by First Trust Advisors: Between January 2009 and September 2015, stocks stumbled numerous times for various reasons, including natural disasters like the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Sandy, and man - made crises like government shutdowns and collapsing oil prices.

Hodgson points to disasters like the Gulf oil spill and the West Virginia mine collapse where inquiries found flawed governance at BP (BP) and Massey Energy, respectively.

To sub for cocoanut oil, if you can't or don't want to use cocoanut oil for whatever reason you could probably use whatever solid fat thing you like (e.g. Nature's Balance spread) at a one - to - one substitution without any disasters, tho depending on the results you might decide to add a bit more or less the next time you make it.

«Instead of protecting our waters from another oil spill, like the one that devastated the Gulf, this new federal plan only increases the chances of another disaster taking place,» Cuomo said.

But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.

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While it's possible to make a healthful fruit smoothie at home, provided you go easy on the fruit and add in healthful additions like spinach and coconut oil, store - bought smoothies are virtually always high - sugar nutritional disasters.

So when shopping time comes, I make a quick check to be sure that each company on my watch list is still desirable — meaning no recent disasters that could threaten future dividends (like an oil spill).

I find that even some of my most informed friends, people who explain to me what really happened with various space and aircraft disasters based on their own critical review of the available information on the subject, have problems discussing topics like global climate change, the end of oil as a fuel, because they haven't even asked some obvious questions, much less done any research.

Given that we, like many other Americans, particularly in the Northeast, are stuck with oil for a good long while to come, my goal — amplified by the gulf disaster — was to make sure the tank needed refilling as infrequently as possible.

If he is wise, Cuomo will shake up the leadership of his minerals division now, so he doesn't face a situation like the one confronting President Obama after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico prompted an after - the - fact reorganization of the federal Minerals (Mis) Managament Service.

He voted to support more dangerous drilling off our beaches, threatening our economy and making disasters like the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill more likely.

In Congress, I will fight to protect our oceans and the wildlife they support from pollution, human - caused disasters like the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, overfishing, and other potential threats.

From bloody wars and huge disasters like the Exxon Valdez and other vast pollutions like the Gulf oil spill, Chernobyl and Fukushima and the resulting cancers and ruined lives (human and other species) to other hideous environmental destruction such as mountaintop removal to climate change to the Culture Of Fear that pervades almost every aspect of our lives today because of all of these.

Like, for instance, the gooey, viscous mess that spills forth from oil disasters or toxic containers.

This legislation seems like a no - brainer: A bill that takes steps to prevent another such disaster, in the wake of the worst oil spill in the history of both the Gulf and the United States.

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The fact is that our system counts illnesses like cancer or disasters like the Gulf oil spill as creating positive growth of the GNP.

So there's a lot of maritime disaster law, this tobacco, oil, gas like it's just — it's really an interesting market.

The LCJC was first established in 2005 to provide legal assistance for people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and it has continuously operated a hotline since, offering legal services to low - income and elderly clients as well as those affected by disasters like the BP oil spill.

Natural storms like Hurricane Wilma and manmade disasters like the 2010 Gulf oil spill scare insurers, causing them to hike up rates for Sunshine staters.