Sentences with phrase «oil spills seem»

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The economic crisis magnified this venomous cycle: «Whether it's financial bailouts or oil spills, it seems every time one turns on the television there is some executive testifying before Congress... blaming other organizations rather than taking any accountability.»

First, the spill seems to have led to decreased trust in the oil and gas industry generally, and foreign companies specifically in the eyes of the U.S. public.

A few days may seem like an eternity in the world of the Internet, but it's a vast improvement over how long it took BP CEO Tony Hayward to own up to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dodging these puddles almost seems as comical as dodging oil spills in Mario Kart at times, but there's a real fear as you approach one at speed that you'll lose control, forcing you to deviate from the racing line.

The 2010 Gulf Coast oil spill may seem like a distant memory, but the recovery is still underway.

A few weeks ago, our car seems to have spilled some oil on our driveway.

This may seem pretty normal by today's standards however back in those days it was deemed unacceptable enough for human pedestrians to be changed to zombies with green blood and robots with oil spills to satisfy the review ratings board in some territories.

As zeitgeisty as the piece seems (there is much to scream about these days, from the oil spill on down to Tea Party antics), Ono created it back in 1961.

When I wrote about the appearance of oiled ducks, I suspected that was a sign the oil had reached a body of water, since it seemed unlikely the birds would be landing in the oil - soaked yards we had seen in earlier photos of the spill.

Oil spills, it seems, are something of an epidemic these days.

The impact of the BP oil spill on birds seems to be in the spotlight today... The American Bird Conservancy released a map of bird habitat threatened by oil and Yale e360 has a good interview with

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Stories about BP contractors working hand in glove with the Coast Guard and local police to prevent full coverage of the effects of the oil spill have been coming out for some time now — and don't seem to be going away.

The story seems clear: BP overruled Transocean in a procedure that, if Transocean had had it's way in choosing a slower and safer technique, would have not likely led to the explosion and subsequent oil spill.

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.

And while it's hard not to detect a slight smell of cheese throughout, by splicing in real - life news reports of oil spills, air pollution, and scenes of climate change, it seems that such a revamping of the 20 - year - old television show would actually be quite relevant in light of the environmental challenges we face today.

But because the media seems to feel that nobody's interested the aftermath of the 2010 BP spill, the biggest offshore oil disaster in US history, you probably didn't hear about it.

I have to admit that a few things in this Science Daily article went over my head for lack of a complete scientific training, but in essence it seems to be saying that according to a paper published in Enviromental Microbiology (not quite my bedtime reading), an indigenous microbiota of the Galician shore (northwest Spain, south of the Bay of Biscay, north of Portugal) is able to degrade crude oil and could be used on spills.

The jokes were especially topical because — almost, it seemed, in coordination with the oil spill — the Interior Department announced it was clearing the way for final approval of Cape Wind, the long - beleaguered Nantucket Sound offshore wind project.

With the backdrop of the April 20, 2010 BP oil spill, it seemed like a good venture.