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More than five decades after a partial nuclear meltdown just outside Los Angeles, state and federal officials Friday announced agreements to remove all contamination. Los Angeles - California - Nuclear meltdown - United States - Counties
Berkeley Lab scientists using PhyloChip analysis say a previously undiscovered species of ocean microbe is aggressively gobbling oil plumes from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
AP - The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others.
Shifting environmental burdens to the most vulnerable among us is a sad inheritance left us by the last century. We must build the next century in the image of tomorrow's triumphs.
Images via Yanko DesignWe're not so sure this concept will make it to any final rounds for the X Prize Foundation's contest for best oil spill clean up ideas, but itisn't the worst idea. Designer Min A Namgung reasons that we should fight oil with oil -- specifically, linking up recycled PET plastic bottles to contain oil from the Gulf disaster. Using rubber caps molded to fit used plastic water
In Pascagoula, Mississippi, a county sheriff alleges that an incident involving an oil spill cleanup supervisor accused of raping a colleague could have been prevented...
New BP CEO Bob Dudley wasn't kidding when he announced last week that it was time for the company to scale back oil-spill cleanup operations....
Entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists worldwide are being offered $1 million for developing a better way of cleaning up crude oil spills from oceans. The competition is being organized by the X Prize Foundation, and it will run for one year. Wendy Schmidt, wife of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, personally put up $1.4 million for the prize purse.
BILOXI, Miss. — BP's new boss says it's time for a "scaleback" in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Federal officials say there...
A company operating a pipeline that dumped more than 800,000 gallons of oil into a southern Michigan river said Wednesday that it is doubling its work force on the containment and cleanup effort. Michigan - Oil spill - Environment - Pipeline transport - Kalamazoo River
The X Prize Foundation has leaked a few details about the Oil Cleanup X Challenge to help solve the impact from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. More details will be announced this Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The X Prize Foundation will be calling all scientists, engineers and [...]
It's challenged entrepreneurs to fly into space. Now the X Prize Foundation says it will award millions of dollars in a new Oil Cleanup X Challenge. Originally posted at News - Cutting Edge
Image: NOAA, public domain.Until the Next StormTropical storm Bonnie, which we wrote about on Friday, forced the evacuation of cleanup crews and of people working on the relief well that will permanently plug the leaking oil well. But over the weekend Bonnie lost a lot of its energy and ended up disintegrating into a bunch of showers and thunderstorms, nothing threatening enough to even show up o
Once a dumping ground for chemicals, a stretch of the Housatonic River that winds near this Berkshires hamlet is being scoured in a lengthy, expensive cleanup. Now, dredging other parts of the riverbed is under consideration, but the fishers, bird watchers and swimmers who would benefit are wondering how much effort is too much. Dredging - Housatonic River - Berkshire - Business - United Stat
The 5,600 vessels taking part in the oil spill operation on the Gulf of Mexico make up the largest fleet assembled since the Allied invasion of Normandy, according to the Coast Guard. Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - BP - Invasion of Normandy - Coast Guard
A Taiwanese-owned "super skimmer" ship sent to help clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has collected virtually no oil in two weeks of tests, a U.S. Coast Guard official said on Friday. Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - United States Coast Guard - Skimmer (machine) - Environment
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