Sentences with phrase «for future oil spills»

This has implications for future oil spills and how we take advantage of the natural environmental response.»

For those of you running for your calculators, yes it's a small fraction of one percent of the oil initially spilled, but the researchers say their findings have implications for future oil spill cleanup and that «considerable amounts of chemicals» harmful to wildlife remain: Two Layers of Gravel Keep Oil From Dispersing What's happening is the result of the composition of the beaches affected.

Not exact matches

12.21 Cameron says he has now had two phone calls with President Obama about the BP oil spill and that it is essential for Britain that BP is strong and secure for the future.

Beyond improvements to fuel efficiency and oil spill remediation, there are currently few easy methods to generate a stable vortex in the lab, so the team hopes their discovery of the «blue swirl» can serve as a natural research platform for the future study of vortices and vortex breakdown in fluid mechanics.

«Our estimate can guide policy makers and the oil industry in determining not only how much should be spent on restoration efforts for the Deepwater spill, but also how much should be invested to protect against damages that could result from future oil spills,» said Boyle.

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.

Tests conducted last week of a novel technology that can greatly accelerate the combustion of crude oil floating on water demonstrated its potential to become an effective tool for minimizing the environmental impact of future oil spills.

Charlie is not a singer; he manages a boxing robot in some near - future period when the dominant spectator sport blends ultimate fighting and monster trucks — large robots attempt to rattle each other's central processing units while the crowds cry for spilled oil.

10 courses are available including: Voluntary Simplicity; Healthy Children, Healthy Planet; Just Below the Surface: Perspectives on the Gulf Coast Oil Spill; Choices for Sustainable Living, Menu for the Future; and many more.

Obama took a beating by environmentalists for pushing to open up offshore oil and gas production, and this disaster just exacerbates it; I wonder if the loss in credibility with environmentalists because of this spill is enough to substantially undermine future energy policy initiatives.

As a surfer, sailor and business leader who experienced firsthand the devastating impacts of the 2010 BP oil spill, Jennifer's background contributes to protection of the ocean and coasts for the future

«As a surfer, sailor and business leader who also experienced firsthand the devastating impacts of the 2010 BP oil spill, Jennifer's wealth of experience and background will contribute to our mission to protect the ocean and coasts for the future.»

The Congressman went on to introduce a bill that would increase penalties for any future offshore oil spills while establishing tighter safety standards for offshore drilling operations.

Chevron and other giant energy companies are demanding a TTIP investment chapter that will allow them to sue governments if environmental or other regulations interfere with their expected future profits by, for example, restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution and oil spill controls or constraining the use of hydraulic fracking techniques to extract natural gas and oil from shale formations.

I generally use the Choices for Sustainable Living book in my Environmental Sociology class, but my students have also liked Menu for the Future, Hungry for Change, the global warming course, and the «Just Below the Surface» retrospective on the Gulf Oil Spill.

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As the race to stake claims for future oil drilling in the Arctic takes off in anticipation of an ice - free region sooner rather than later, and as oil companies and Congress members continue to push for the US to drill in the Arctic, here are some sobering words from the head of the Coast Guard on how woefully unprepared the US is to deal with an oil spill there (h / t Climate Progress).

As the US grants Shell its final permit to drill off the coast of Alaska, Russia, too, continues to prepare for a future with Arctic drilling as it takes steps to improve environmental safety in the Timan - Pechora tundra after a series of oil spills in recent years.

Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.