By: Chris Amico Last updated 12:30pm ET on May 6. Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month’s oil rig explosion. What we do have are estimates — from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, from outside experts, from British Petroleum — of how fast crude […]
By WAYNE PARRYAssociated Press Writerupdated 1:42 p.m. PT, Fri., May 7, 2010 LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Radioactive water that leaked from the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state’s environmental chief said Friday. The state Department of Environmental […]
Associated Press Reporting Saturday, 08 May 2010 11:30AM Louisiana and parish officials have opened six gates through Mississippi River levees to send fresh water into wetlands and try to keep out oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. According to the state Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, the six diversion structures are now pouring […]
By Joe RommMay 8, 2010 Where did all the snow go? I mean, it was here just a minute ago, uber-fodder for the anti-science crowd (see Was the “Blizzard of 2009″ a “global warming type” of record snowfall — or an opportunity for the media to blow the extreme weather story (again)? and Massive moisture-driven […]
By Debbie WilliamsPublished: Fri, May 07, 2010 – 7:18 pm CST DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama – Scientist from Dauphin Island Sea Lab took water samples earlier this week off the coast of Dauphin Island and found oily residue floating just below the surface. It maybe the first signs of the oil spill off Alabama’s coast. Thirty-five […]
Caption by Holli Riebeek Light tan streamers snake across Chandeleur Sound in this detailed natural-color satellite image from May 5, 2010. The streamers are probably ropes of oil from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The streamers surround Freemason Island and arc through Chandeleur Sound west of the Chandeleur Islands. The image is […]
As the nation’s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the Deepwater Horizon spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico,wetland,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption
By AMY MERRICK Illinois lawmakers were in disarray Thursday as they groped for stopgap measures to address a $13 billion deficit equaling nearly half of the state’s general-fund revenue. The state faces one of the nation’s worst budget crises, spilled over in part from the broader national economic crunch, and its current bond ratings lag […]
By HARRY R. WEBER and TAMARA LUSH – Associated Press Writers ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Workers late Thursday started lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea in a risky and untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and avert a wider […]
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