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Category Archives: environment
Climate Change hits North Dakota, again and again
Record temperatures in the arctic have been linked to the snowstorms this year that are currently causing the fourth-worst flood of all times in Fargo, North Dakota. Last year, they had the fifth-worst flood of all time, and two years … Continue reading
Posted in current events, environment
Tagged aquadam, aquafence, CLIMATE CHANGE, environment, fargo north dakota, flooding, sandbag replacement, sandbags
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Tony Hayward leaving makes no difference
Reports today say that Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, will step down at the end of October and become, instead, the head of a Russian project the company is overseeing. He’ll remain on the corporate board. This is dangerous in … Continue reading
Oil Spill Lesson: Scientists are a limited commodity
Skytruth / Flickr: Creative Commons 2.0 Andrew Leonard has a nice, brief write-up about how BP has been trying to recruit marine biologists and other scientists from Southern universities to help with its legal case. He also cites a Huffington … Continue reading
Further oil spill updates: A new delay in containment
At the risk of bucking the trend of ignoring the Gulf Oil spill, I thought maybe today would be a nice day for a recap. Apparently, so did BP, since they’re about to close the vents on their new containment … Continue reading
A Timeline of Oil Spill Action and Estimates
Today the government announced that the spill rate in the Gulf of Mexico may actually be 60,000 barrels (2.5 million gallons) a day. This is the same figure that BP CEO Tony Hayward told Congress was the “worst case” figure … Continue reading
Posted in environment, gulf oil spill, politics
Tagged bp containment cap, bp oil spill, bp payments, bp top kill, gulf oil spill, gulf oil spill estimates, gulf oil spill timeline, how much oil has leaked into the gulf, obama press briefing, obama press conference, obama speech, Oil Leak, oil leak estimates, oil spill, oil spill estimates, oil spill timeline
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The Gulf Oil Spill: Now worse than the worst-case scenario
U.S. Coast Guard Photo / Creative Commons 2.0 Last week, I talked a little about how inconceivable the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico was. Turns out it’s now twice as inconceivable. Take it away, New York … Continue reading
Is there another oil leak in the Gulf?
Via Diamond Offshore A reporter named Ben Raines has made some significant waves today with a piece he wrote for the Mobile, Albama Press-Register, now posted on AL.com, which reports that another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has … Continue reading
Officials: Oil Spill Cleanup Will Take Years
Congratulations, new graduates and next generations. This year, we, your elders, have decided to get you the gift that keeps on giving: an oil spill mess in the Gulf of Mexico that is so big and has been so badly … Continue reading
What do the Gulf Oil Spill Numbers mean?
NASA Image I’m confused. I keep reading that the BP/Transocean/Gulf Oil Spill is the largest oil spill ever for America. Yet I’m also reading that it’s not the largest ever seen in the world. Of course this blows my American … Continue reading
Reports Show Politics Wins Over Science at the EPA
Flickr: Rainforestactionnetwork / Creative Commons On the same day we’re hearing that the Obama administration — faced with disastrous evidence — may, after all, be changing its policy related to oil drilling in the Gulf, Politics Daily notes that scientific … Continue reading
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Tagged epa regions, epa report, politics, science, science integration
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