Another winning team from Loyola constructed a lab to produce biodiesel from vegetable
oil waste from the cafeteria.
In California, state officials have admitted to allowing oil companies to drill injection wells into protected aquifers and dispose
of oil waste fluid into underground water supplies across the state.
Given the amount of
oil wasted by idling vehicles each year, Linda's work is making important progress towards improving vehicle fuel efficiency — a key piece of the UCS Half the Oil plan.
Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of
oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's «Chernobyl» and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.
The pollution judgment against Chevron issued in 2011 based on 105 technical evidentiary reports showing the oil major dumped billions of gallons of cancer -
causing oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands.
Designed for continuous lubrication, Nordson EFD's MicroCoat ® MC800 Series system
eliminates oil waste.
In Ecuador, the nonprofit Amazon Mycorenewal Project, run by an alumna of Stamets» seminars, plans to use mushrooms to clean up
oil waste left by drillers.
The
palm oil waste contains carbohydrate material, known as cellulose and hemicellulose that can be broken down into sugars for use in fuel and plastic production.
California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11
oil waste injection sites and a review of over 100 others in the Central Valley for fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids into drinking water aquifers.
The article you appear to be referencing, originally from Reuters, discusses oil tankers flying under a Venezuelan flag that were impounded in Caribbean ports, under the admiralty law of those ports, for not paying bills to firms that
clean oil waste from the sides of oil tankers, non-payment which is also preventing other ships from getting cleaned.
Also at 11 a.m. — NYC Councilmen Stephen Levin and Costa Constantinides and others rally in support of Intro 446 - A that would bans fracking and
oil waste from city water and streets, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Correa is currently under fire for his decision to open up almost 4,000 square miles of the rainforest in the country to oil drilling, a strange decision from a man whose determined to stop
the oil waste brought on by the newspaper industry.