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Since the Deepwater Horizon incident, we've seen an increased focus on developing new ways to contain and clean up oil spills more efficiently.

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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.

A new USC study takes a cue from leaf structure to fabricate material that can separate oil and water, which could lead to safer and more efficient oil spill clean - up methods.

The XPrize has previously awarded millions for big ideas that solve big problems like for oil spill clean up, sustainable jet fuel, fuel - efficient vehicles and more.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in

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While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa.

More than six months since tar sands oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood, two homes have just been leveled by Exxon in order to clean up oil that was found under their foundations.

David Dickins, an engineer from San Diego who has spent 30 years studying how to clean up oil spills in icy waters, said that while the ice impeded the use of tools like booms that hold a slick in place, the ice also naturally contained the oil, giving response teams more time to act before environmental damage occurred.

Alex again has potential for disruption, although probably more on clean - up operations than on Deepwater Horizon oil spill capturing and the drilling of relief wells.

The spill required years and more than a billion dollars to clean up, and it highlighted the hazards of pumping heavy tar sands oil through pipelines.

reminds us, friendly bacteria can devour oil spills more quickly than any expensive, man - made chemical clean up operation.

What's more, we have tools to clean up oil spills, so we actually can clean them up (at least to a certain degree) when we set out to do so — as of now, solutions that can clean up carbon spills from the air are just beginning to reach commercial scale.

But the fact that carbon spills present a much more difficult problem than oil spills makes it all the more urgent we stop making carbon spills and start developing and deploying solutions to clean up the spills of past decades.

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If the oil industry wants to pipe these dangerous tar sands oils over our water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to clean up.

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As the BP oil spill moves from being a short and bloody battle to a long and drawn out war, I've personally have moved to from anger to trying to think more constructively, but here are two pieces of news which drag me right back to frustration: 1) In an Alabama wildlife refuge affected by the spill, even possessing a camera is prohibited; 2) BP apparently won't use peat moss to help clean up the oil because it won't be able to sell the oil afterwards.

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One example of this is the oyster mushroom, which has been found to successful in cleaning up oil spills, as an alternative to more harmful detergents.

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More recent cases include the firm's representation of thousands of clean - up workers and Gulf Coast residents who were physically or financially harmed by BP Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histoOil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histooil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histooil spill in U.S. history.

The Gulf oil spill in 2010 leaked 206 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico; BP has already paid $ 14 billion in clean - up costs and $ 10 billion in compensation, and is expected to owe more as clean - up continues