Sentences with phrase «by oil spills»

It would also help ensure that companies like BP that are responsible for oil spills are the ones that pay for the harm caused by these oil spills --- not the taxpayers.

The findings, while preliminary, add to a growing pile of evidence that estimates of the number of animals impacted by oil spills might be too low.

Animal law includes farm animals, companion animals and even marine animals such as those that have been harmed by oil spills.

There are, basically, two issues with this method, and both are wonderfully illustrated by the oil spill example.

Just look at the many ecological disasters around the world triggered by oil spills.

So even though the city of 120,000 people hasn't been physically touched by the oil spill, there are grave concerns about the potential loss of jobs and population.

Denver — Having already funded research on the health of dolphins affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund will now help the rare saiga antelope in Kazakhstan.

They write, «the genome data and their functional analysis provides us with an invaluable knowledge base essential to design, develop, test and optimize rational strategies to mitigate the ecological damage caused by oil spills in marine systems.»

Guadalupe murrelet is mainly threatened by oil spills, as much of its population lives near the busy shipping lanes connecting Los Angeles to other ports.

As a small business that constantly utilizes and enjoys Refugio State Beach and its surrounding areas as a destination for ecotourism and outdoor education, Santa Barbara Adventure Company is deeply saddened and conflicted by the oil spill on May 19, 2015.

On Wednesday, 11/7, San Fransicso bay was irreversibly polluted by an oil spill.

Over the past few years, we've seen some of our top brands tarnished by oil spills, tainted - meat scandals and the financial crisis.

In 2010, BP bought 32 units to help clean up the disaster left by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The small fishing community has been hammered by the oil spill.

It is threatened by predators introduced to its breeding colonies and by oil spills [citation needed].

Even if you're an experienced rider who has braked before entering a turn and accelerated into it, you can be taken unaware by oil spilled on the road or an extremely uneven surface that causes you and your motorcycle to capsize.

«One of the cases we're funding at the moment is a class action of seaweed fishermen in Indonesia claiming compensation for alleged damages caused by an oil spill by PTTEP Australasia Ashmore Cartier PTY Ltd,» says Martin Tonnby, Harbour's Founder and CEO.

ExxonMobil says about 50 claims have been filed so far by people affected by the oil spill.

Contacts in Louisiana have given me numerous, unconfirmed reports of cameras and cell phones being confiscated, scientists with monitoring equipment being turned away, and local reporters blocked from access to public lands impacted by the oil spill.

Petroleum - eating oyster mushrooms resembling those above can remediate soil contaminated by oil spills.

Scripps's murrelet is mainly threatened by oil spills, as much of its population lives near the busy shipping lanes connecting Los Angeles to other ports.

Ask yourself if you would want your child to be forced to play in the shadow of a petrochemical plant built next to your home, or an oil field, or along local rivers polluted by oil spills and toxic waste — because this is the hazardous reality for many people.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, who spoke through the Deputy Minority Leader, Onyema Chukwuka, while flagging off a probe into the death of fourteen persons in a fire caused by an oil spill.

Not realizing most of these are temporary, how many jobs and businesses will be wiped out by an oil spill that is guaranteed to happen.

«We have also asked the U.S. Small Business Administration to activate all appropriate federal disaster declaration clauses that would enable the SBA to assist the small businesses in the state that will be impacted by the oil spill...

«It is another row on a ledger sheet called the «spill impact mitigation analysis,»» which assesses various strategies and tools to reduce environmental and economic damage caused by oil spills.

It is threatened by predators introduced to its breeding colonies and by oil spills.

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He has led the defense of several clients in actions caused by oil spills and pipeline ruptures.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service set up a wildlife triage center on Grand Isle to rescue and rehabilitate birds and marine animals affected by the oil spill.