Sentences with phrase «like an oil spill»

To some regulators, physical commodities represent a big risk: an operational problem, like an oil spill on an offshore rig, could lead to huge reputational damage and crater the bank's stock, potentially destabilizing it and the broader financial system.

If there ever were a problem like an oil spill, there may not be adequate funds in place to clean it up, he said.

M.M.: I have to say, it wasn't long until we were hit with things like the oil spill and the Haiti earthquake, and the fact that I already knew people like [Energy Secretary] Steve Chu and [NOAA Administrator] Jane Lubchenco — to know these people and have their cell phone numbers and be able to call at a moment's notice, to have these people already know me, and not have to question motives — was such a leg up in getting off square zero and getting things done.

«Disastrous events like this oil spill can easily tip the scale,» Mansur says, especially by threatening top predators such as the Sundarbans tigers, crocodiles, and dolphins.

Their uses range from detecting dangerous contaminants, like oil spills, to retrieving evidence of climate change.

So when shopping time comes, I make a quick check to be sure that each company on my watch list is still desirable — meaning no recent disasters that could threaten future dividends (like an oil spill).

The black man looks like a oil spill in the xb1 picture and is nearly the same complexion as his beanie hat.

With Google Earth features, users can add elements to make a map real, such as before and after imaging of things like oil spills or mountain top removal, imagery to illustrate what the maps mean and what people are looking at when they see the terrain.

But it's absolutely essential that going forward we put in place every necessary safeguard and protection so that a tragedy like this oil spill does not happen again.

«Be it dust regulation, treating milk spills like oil spills, or greenhouse gas emissions, the White House and its EPA are on the prowl, in search of another way to insert itself in the affairs of America's rural communities and in the way of American prosperity.»

Not exact matches

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

The BP spill led to more regulation (although not as much new in the U.S. as some would like) and less investment in the U.S. offshore oil industry than would have otherwise been the case, and these changes were likely compensated for with increased investment elsewhere.

Sometimes, the harm is overt, like in the case of BP's oil spill, but often it's more subtle, like when employees invest hope and time in a project that fails.

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.

Examples of such supposed brushes with oblivion are almost too numerous, from little goof - ups like Tropicana's package redesign, Gap's short - lived new logo and Lululemon's transparent stretchy pants to big stuff like BP's oil spill, Chipotle's food poisoning and Samsung's self - immolating phones.

Incidents involving death or safety, like Toyota's TM, -0.02 % faulty air bag recall or the 2010 explosion of a BP BP, -0.03 % oil rig and oil spill in U.S. waters, were more catastrophic in terms of consumer fallout.

Because the sound is in cold water, like Burrard Inlet, the organisms that break down oil were only partially effective and the spill was never fully cleaned up.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

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.

Hodgson points to disasters like the Gulf oil spill and the West Virginia mine collapse where inquiries found flawed governance at BP (BP) and Massey Energy, respectively.

Like the gulf oil spill.

During the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, former BP CEO Tony Hayward went on camera saying, «I would like my life back,» which suggested to Louisiana residents that fixing the leak may not be his top priority.

«Instead of protecting our waters from another oil spill, like the one that devastated the Gulf, this new federal plan only increases the chances of another disaster taking place,» Cuomo said.

«BP misled investors about its safety procedures and its ability to respond to events like the ongoing oil spill and we're going to hold it accountable.»

But we can only pursue offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a disaster like the BP oil spill will not happen again.

J.P.S. Badyal and colleagues point out that oil - spill cleanup crews often use absorbents, like clays, straw and wool to sop up oil, but these materials aren't very efficient because they also sop up a lot of water.

Toxicants like solvents, pesticides or volatile molecules from oil spills can travel straight into the brain via the olfactory receptors — nasal neurons that number in the many millions, thickly studding the inner lining of the nose.

The team found that frequencies near 200 kilohertz were best for tracking small oil droplets like those in the Deepwater Horizon spill.

There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.

It's maddening that we know so little about what the seafloor looked like at the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill before the oil began to leak.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

A newly designed metallic soap reacts to a magnetic field, a first in soap research that could lead to better control of cleanup chemicals in situations like aquatic oil spills.

It might look and even feel like paper, but a new material created by scientists at MIT is designed to be an oil spill super-absorber.

The slurry can also be used directly to 3D - print conductive graphene aerogels, an ultra-lightweight sponge - like material that can be used to remove oil spill in the sea.

The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.

After ruling out previous causes of such mass deaths — cold weather, disease like morbillivirus and even poisoning by algal bloom — fisheries scientists are left with only one conclusion: «Put all that evidence together and it supports the hypothesis that the oil spill contributed to the increase in deaths,» says veterinarian Stephanie Venn - Watson of the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego.

Dear EarthTalk: I haven't heard much of late about big oil spills like the infamous Exxon Valdez.

In the early days of the Prestige spill, the oil was as viscous as molasses, but later it was more like chewing gum.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

especially when I see oil spills like we just had!!!

It looks like an rainbow prismed oil spill in the air.

One of several high - powered blockbusters looking to use the fest as a launching pad for a successful theatrical run like last year's «The Martian,» Peter Berg's telling of the biggest oil spill in US history promises a lot of bang for your fest - going time.

Mendes has always been an assured visual stylist even when his material feels wholly bogus — see Road To Perdition — and in Jarhead's second half the desert begins to look like something out of a dystopian sci - fi movie: Pools of oil spilling everywhere blot out the sun and the only illumination is provided by poisonous oil well infernos.

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

«I went from sounding out the «A» sound with one group, to talking to another group about how the Exxon Valdez oil spill was like the Battle of Normandy.»

On the 2015 PISA, students were presented with scenarios like measuring the square footage of an apartment or estimating the area of an oil spill.

Another nice touch is the Ultra Lux seat fabric (standard and only in LT) that looks and feels like suede but is washable to remove spilled coffee, tea, milk, cosmetics, jelly, oil or grease.

Plus, the novel forces you ask the difficult questions that have been so relevant this year in the wake of earthquakes, oil spills, conflict abroad — like how can people live their lives after tragedy?

That's an unusual move that is reserved for cases that are particularly important or complex, like the BP oil spill.

They are currently vulnerable to climatic events like El Niño events and oil spills.