How BP swept dispersants under the rug

By Geoff Livingston on 16 June, 2010 – 08:47 The PR battle has continues between Obama and BP. With the climax occurring today between BP top brass and Obama at the White House, another major danger continues to spread in the Gulf, BP’s widespread use of Corexit toxic dispersants. More than 1,000,000 gallons has been […]

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BP starts burning oil siphoned from ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico

By RAY HENRY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJune 16, 2010 10:15 a.m. NEW ORLEANS – BP began burning oil siphoned from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday as part of its plans to more than triple the amount of crude it can stop from reaching the sea, the company said. BP PLC said […]

Vital river is withering, and Iraq has no answer — ‘This used to be paradise’

By STEVEN LEE MYERSPublished: June 12, 2010 SIBA, Iraq — The Shatt al Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq’s newly democratic government is almost powerless to fix. Withered by decades of dictatorial mismanagement […]

BP’s oil spill grows ever more ominous

By MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — BP’s annus horribilus just got a little more horrible. So did the Gulf’s. Three weeks ago, a handful of scientists watching grainy video shot at 5,000 feet beneath the sea suggested that BP’s ruptured wellhead was disgorging up to 25,000 barrels of crude a day into the Gulf of […]

BP gets OK to burn off captured oil, gas at sea

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. — BP won permission to start burning oil and gas piped up from its broken seafloor well, one step toward fulfilling a pledge to more than triple how much crude it stops from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. Federal authorities gave permission late Monday for BP PLC to use a new […]

Shrimp dumped, captain warned in Gulf

Associated PressJune 15, 2010, 8:42AM GRAND ISLE, La. — The Coast Guard says it found a shrimper working in an area closed because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, confiscated 19,000 pounds of white shrimp and put it all back in the water. Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the shrimp were live when returned […]

Efforts to repel Gulf oil spill are described as chaotic

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSONPublished: June 14, 2010 GRAND ISLE, La. — Deano Bonano, the emergency preparedness director for Jefferson Parish, marched from a motor home being used as a command center to an office across the street filled with BP officials. It was late May. Oil had been creeping into the passes around Grand Isle. Two […]

‘Surprisingly large amount of microplastics in the environment’

By PHUONG LEASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER TACOMA, Wash. — Motoring along the Thea Foss Waterway one morning, researcher Julie Masura dropped a fine-mesh net into the water and skimmed the surface for plastic debris. Candy wrappers, a plastic cup, a grocery bag floated by, but the University of Washington researcher was in search of smaller items: […]

In North Atlantic, researchers find a sea of garbage

  Paris (AFP) June 12, 2010 – The North Atlantic Ocean is looking more like a rubbish bin, with plastic and polystyrene flotsom spreading far and wide, according to four French explorers just back from eight months at sea. Once out of the Brittany port of Trinite-sur-Mer in October, they typically spotted at least four […]

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