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The Obama administration said Wednesday it will spend $29 million to increase the number and training of offshore drilling inspectors, upgrade enforcement and take others steps to improve the beleaguered agency that oversees offshore drilling. Presidency of Barack Obama - Business - Energy - Oil and Gas - Offshore drilling
You'd put solar panels on your roof if they were free, but will President Obama. "It's complicated," the White House responded when Bill McKibben and 350.org asked if they'd install the panels Sungevity agreed to donate. To hopeful... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Federal scientists are reporting the best possible scenario for BP's leaked oil: Microbes are munching the underwater oil, but not robbing the Gulf of much needed oxygen or creating "dead zones." BP - Oxygen - Oil - Energy - Business
Engineers removed a temporary cap Thursday that stopped oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown-out well in mid-July. Gulf of Mexico - BP - Business - Energy - Oil and Gas
Oil giant BP said in an internal report on Wednesday that multiple companies and work teams contributed to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months. Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - BP - Wall Street Journal - Transocean
Ironically, the latest oil rig explosion occurred as Louisiana's governor, along with other state and local officials, were calling on President Obama to lift the moratorium on deepwater drilling that he imposed three months ago.
Dunking servers in a bath of oil sounds like the fastest way to break some very expensive hardware, but not for startup Green Revolution Cooling, which builds energy efficient liquid-cooled servers. Its first customer, collocation firm Midas Networks, will implement the technology later this year.
It's still unclear whether this one, like the BP oil spill, will produce a huge gusher.
Image: Google MapsThankfully, No Deaths This TimeAn offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. All 13 people who were on the rig were evacuated and only one was injured, reports the U.S. Coast Guard.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Ahead of its upcoming report Fossil Foolishness: Utah's Pursuit of Tar Sands and Oil Shale Western Resource Advocates has produced the above short video detailing, as you might imagine from the title, why even though it may be ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Scandalized by federal regulators who had sex with oil company executives and negotiated with them for jobs, the agency that oversees offshore drilling is imposing a first-ever ethics policy. Offshore drilling - Business - Energy - Petroleum industry - Oil and Gas
Greenpeace forced a Scottish company to stop drilling off Greenland on Tuesday by having four activists climb onto an oil rig. Greenpeace - Greenland - Business - Oil platform - Energy
photo: Forest Peoples ProgrammeTake this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme details the damage.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
* Research says industry polluting Athabasca River Athabasca River - University of Alberta - Canada - Environment - Alberta
The hidden health threat (and $100 billion annual cost) in the gasoline we pump into our cars.
"We heard that we could have a really great neighborhood party if it ever caught on fire," Karen Korp jokes with CNN in this video...
Photo: Youtube grabJ. R. Ewing is BackI'm too young to have seen Dallas during its original run, but I vaguely remember that my parents sometimes watched it and talked about this "J.R." guy. Still, the show was so popular that even though I haven't had first-hand exposure, I know enough about it from references and parodies in other shows to know that Larry Hagman's character, J.R. Ewing, was a m
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