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Tag Archives: Environment
Evacuation Underway as Storm Heads to Gulf Spill Site
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - A tropical storm barreling towards the Gulf of Mexico oil spill site Friday forced crews to suspend operations and halt work to permanently plug the gushing BP well.Admiral Thad Allen, the US official overseeing the spill respo...
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Multinational Company Trafigura Found Guilty of Exporting Toxic Waste
A Dutch court has found multinational Trafigura
guilty of illegally exporting toxic waste from Amsterdam and concealing
the nature of the cargo.
In 2006, Trafigura transported waste alleged to have been
involved in the injury of thousands of...
US Senate Drops Bill to Cap Carbon Emissions
by Haroon Siddique and agencies A major climate change bill that would have capped carbon emissions has been abandoned by Democrats in the US Senate in the face of opposition from both sides of the house.Under pressure from falling popularity ratings, ...
EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup
With BP having poured nearly two million gallons of the dispersant known as Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico, many lawmakers and advocacy groups say the Obama administration is not being candid about the lethal effects of dispersants. We speak with Hugh...
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BP Says Oil Has Stopped
BP engineers on Thursday stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April as they shut all valves on a new cap placed on top of a fractured wellhead, a BP official said."It is good to see no oil going into the Gulf of Mex...
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Hudson Bay Polar Bears ‘Could Soon Be Extinct’
by Michael McCarthy, Environment EditorPolar bears in the Hudson Bay area of Canada are likely to die out in the next three decades, possibly sooner, as global warming melts more Arctic ice and thus reduces their hunting opportunities, according to Can...
Natural Gas No Quick Fix for U.S. Energy Woes
Washington, D.C.-In the wake of April's calamitous oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico, pundits are pointing to natural gas as the resource to
save the U.S. from its energy woes. But a new report released today by
the national consumer advocacy group Fo...
Rich Countries to Pay Energy Giants to Build New Coal-Fired Power Plants
by John Vidal, environment editor The UN is set to channel billions of pounds of public money from rich countries to giant energy companies to build 20 heavily polluting coal-fired power plants on the basis that they will emit less carbon dioxide than ...
Maude Barlow: Running out of Water