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0Let Them Drill: Poll shows 73% of Americans oppose ban on offshore drilling (or does it?) 1279540560
In response to BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama immediately placed a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling efforts, a move which affected 33 deep-water drilling projects. While many people initially applauded Obama's decision, public sentiment in the ...
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An oil slick is worth a million Priuses and other numbers from the Gulf Oil Spill 1276636200
The exact amount of oil that is still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's broken tap is a number under some dispute, but the mess could be increasing at a rate of a million gallons a day. Or, as the WaPo put it, "roughly one Valdez spill every week." So, how much gasoline has been wasted by ...
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Gulf oil spill spoofed with satirical air spill report 1274313600
Image of phony offshore wind farm - Click above to watch video after the jumpReports are pouring in left and right on this one. There appears to be an epic air spill off of U.S. coastal waters and nobody can figure out how to contain the disaster. Air began blowing from an offshore wind farm a ... -
Poll: Americans favor raising gas mileage requirement to 50 mpg 1274219880
Fuel efficiency has been a hot topic as of late, both for consumers looking to ease their financial and environmental burdens and for automakers hoping to meet the latest round of government-mandated mileage requirements. A few months ago in late March – importantly, that means the survey ...
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AFVI 2010: T. Boone Pickens believes God gave the U.S. our natural gas supplies 1273624380
T. Boone Pickens may not know exactly what's up with V-Vehicles, a company that he's invested in that wants to make high-mileage vehicles, but he does claim to know some things. During his opening keynote speech at the AFVI Expo in Las Vegas, for example, the long-time oilman and big natural ...
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In wake of oil rig disaster, Obama promises no new offshore drilling until... 1272913020
Image of oil slick captured by NASA's Aqua Satellite - Click above to watch video after the jumpIn the wake of the disastrous oil spill off of the Louisiana shoreline, the White House announced that it will put a halt to all new offshore drilling in U.S water until the cause for the disaster ... -
Oil rig sinks off Lousisiana coast, 42,000 gallons of oil leaking daily, could take months to contain 1272294660
A tragic, but all too common event occurred last week that heightens our cause for concern. The Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig positioned off of the coast of Louisiana, went down in flames after several explosions led to the outbreak of a fire that could not be contained. The events started on ... -
Killer Whales in Canada appear to be all right after diesel spill 1188141780
Fuel spills are never a good thing, no matter which way you look at them. Ask the company which lost the fuel and they will tell you how much money they lost. Ask the whales... wait a second. We can't ask the whales. So, we just have to rely on what the scientists tell us. Fortunately for these ...
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Frequent oil spills threatening the lives of Magellanic penguins in South America 1185652380
Oil spills are most definitely NOT green news. Unfortunately, they are exactly the opposite. Again, unfortunately, it seems that they are all too common off the coast of Argentina, which is causing problems for the local population of Magellanic penguins. Penguins need to be able to stay ...
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1,000 tonnes (1.3 million liters) of heavy fuel oil on burning ship near the South Pole 1171629960
I ran across this article on Treehugger today, and thought I'd share it with you. It seems that a Japanese whaling ship is currently adrift and on fire near the South Pole. According to New Zealand, there is a danger to some 250,000 pairs of breeding penguins and other local wildlife. The captain ...

