Sentences with phrase «cleaning up oil»

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.

Cleaning Oil Spills As we mentioned above, some bacteria like to eat chemicals found in oil spills, which means they can be, and are, used in cleaning up oil spills as well.

In other words, the EU, China and Latin America get the oil, the foreign - owned oil companies get the profits and North Americans are left cleaning up oil spills and shouldering the pollution burden from extracting and refining the dirty tar sands.

Any attempt at cleaning up an oil spill in the Arctic would face challenges ranging from shifting sea ice to constant darkness, and the United States is far from ready for an Arctic spill of any significant size.

In an ironic twist, Think Progress has just reported that a bizarre technicality in U.S. law allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleaning up oil spills like the one in Mayflower.

A long time ago I saw an article on TV that was a claim that human hair was an affective resource for cleaning up oil spills in water.

Put more succinctly, oil dispersants and bioremediation agents — the kinds of things that the non-professionals will seek to help with cleanup — are suitable for cleaning up oil only after it makes landfall.

Cleaning up oil spills is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

Genetically modified organisms show promise for everything from making vaccines to cleaning up oil spills.

There are no viable methods of cleaning up oil from ice and, in addition to weather conditions, much of the area where drilling would take place is incredibly remote, said Rear Adm. Jonathan White, the former chief oceanographer of the Navy and head of its climate change task force.

The challenges for cleaning up an oil spill in the Arctic are numerous.

The Australian Research Council supported the development of the boron nitride nanosheets, because, according to Chen, current methods of cleaning up oil spills are inefficient and unsophisticated — taking too long and causing ongoing and expensive damage.

In 2011, X Prize awarded the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge prize to a manufacturing team from the United States that developed technology for quickly cleaning up oil spills.

Waste material generated by Malaysia's sago palm industry has potential for use as an adsorbent for cleaning up oil spills, according to a study published in the Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology.

En masse, they form a mechanical multitude an order of magnitude larger than any robot swarm ever built — a possible precursor to future robot work squads choreographed for chores such as cleaning up oil spills.

One of the main concerns in cleaning up oil spills (and other industrial waste) is the addition of new chemicals into the environment.

Future designer enzymes could serve needs unmet by biological evolution, such as cleaning up oil spills or manufacturing new drugs.

Mushrooms are potential miracle workers, capable of cleaning up oil spills and radioactive contamination, filtering bacteria - tainted wastewater, speeding reforestation of clear - cut woodlands, boosting agricultural yields, controlling insect pests and treating ailments ranging from cancer and bird flu to diabetes and dementia.

But now those in the Niger delta say the fragile peace is under strain as the Nigerian government takes time to carry out reforms ranging from the construction of a maritime university to cleaning up oil spills.

First, the method is agnostic as to what the money is spent on, so money spent cleaning up an oil spill looks remarkably similar to money spent building a new hospital or school in terms of economic impact.

So, what are some of the techniques — both traditional and non-traditional — that could be used to clean up the oil spill?

MAYFLOWER, Ark. — Exxon Mobil Corp. says crews are working to contain and clean up an oil spill near Mayflower, Ark., after its Pegasus pipeline ruptured Friday afternoon.

In early 2017, the National Energy Board required Kinder Morgan Canada to maintain a line of credit of $ 500 million Canadian with its corporate parent to cover short - term costs to contain and clean up oil spills.

On November 9, 2011, Amnesty International called on Shell to make an initial $ 1 billion payment to clean up oil pollution in the Niger Delta.

I know Dawn has some unique cleaning features since that's what they asked for to help clean up the oil spill....

Swarms of the subs, able to carry 10 times their own volume, could help clean up oil spills.

Technicians from a Seattle - based bioremediation company, Enviros, learned of Stamets» success and asked him for advice on using fungi to clean up oil - soaked soil.

«These could clean up oil spills all over the planet,» he says.

«I could easily imagine medusoids used in large numbers to clean up oil spills in a similar manner to the way a jellyfish filters out its food,» he adds.

They also use various materials and methods to see what will best clean up an oil spill simulated in a 9 - by -9-inch pan.

We don't yet know how to clean up oil spills in broken pack ice,» said Smith.

Although typical fire tornadoes can be catastrophically unruly, researchers hope to harness their power for energy production and to clean up oil spills.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- Enbridge Energy Partners LP has begun a new round of dredging on the Kalamazoo River, Michigan, to clean up oil from a huge pipeline spill in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

The scientists even found that some bacteria might assist with «cleanup after the cleanup,» meaning they also could eat what humans pour into the water to clean up the oil.

The technology was developed at WPI by a team led by Ali Rangwala, professor of fire protection engineering, as an outgrowth of research funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at assessing the feasibility of using in - situ burns to clean up oil spills in remote locations in the Arctic, where harsh weather can make it difficult to quickly mobilize clean - up equipment and crews.

Researchers looking for a better way to clean up oil spills are taking a cue from the humble cactus.

People tried different things but none cleaned up the oil any quicker.

The United States is not ready to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic, the head of the Coast Guard said yesterday.

No viable methods exist to clean up oil from ice and drilling would occur in incredibly remote areas

The sponges will be used to clean up oil spills, as well as diesel and oil buildup in ports and harbors.

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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Hair and mushrooms probably aren't the first things to come to mind when you're preparing to clean up an oil spill.

Tonight I'd like to lay out for you what our battle plan is going forward: what we're doing to clean up the oil, what we're doing to help our neighbors in the Gulf, and what we're doing to make sure that a catastrophe like this never happens again.

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.

One of our biggest challenges is to clean up our oil mess — and we can meet that challenge.

«The dispersant chemicals used to clean up oil spills have the unintended effect of transforming crude oil into a toxic mist able to travel for miles and penetrate deep into human lungs, new research has found.»

That meant that conventional cleanup measures designed to clean up oil floating on the surface of the water no longer worked.