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Majority of Americans Think Oil Companies Should Pay More for Oil Spills

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via NY Daily News The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was passed after the Exxon-Valdez to hold oil companies responsible for their spills. One of the main provisions of the bill was that it held oil companies liable for funding the cleanup of their messes — but only up to $75 million dollars worth. It’s questionable enough whether that sum was adequate to pay for the cleanup in Prince William Sound (there are still tons of oil lingering on the beaches there , remember). But that wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Jon Stewart Blasts BP for Having 760 Pre-Spill Safety Violations (Video)

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Daily Show was unfortunately on hiatus during the last couple weeks of the BP Gulf oil spill, leaving a void where negligent companies should be lampooned and scathing satire delivered. But fear not, everyone! The spill is still continuing unabated , more than 40 days after it began, and there looks to be no end in sight — which means plenty more time for BP Gulf spill satire! Hell, we could be laughing until Christmas, according to some reports, since that’s how long experts say it might ta… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BREAKING: US Justice Department Launches Criminal Investigation of BP Oil Spill

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: banspy via flickr I can here the collective cry of ‘Right on!’ and ‘About effing time!’ rising up from the TreeHugger readership… CNN is reporting that US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the Gulf Gusher. We’ll have more as it emerges, but this is what we know so far:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Y’all Ain’t Gonna Be Able To Eat Shrimp Like You Used To & We Ain’t Gonna Be Able to Catch It’ (Video)

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Another good video coming out of OnEarth : In this quickie, the Philippe’s tell the story of how their family has live on Louisiana’s Grand Bayou for “centuries upon centuries.” As part of the Atakapa-Ishak tribe, they have relied on this land and water for generations and it’s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Butterfly Biomimicry Can Curb Counterfeiting of Banknotes

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via University of Exeter The iridescence of butterfly wings have been the source of inspiration for more energy efficient yet vivid displays , but their shine is proving useful for brightening up not just our gadgets, but the money we buy them with as well. Researchers are looking in to how biomimicry can foil the efforts of would-be forgers, using the radiant colors created by light rather than pigment…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UNEP Report Shows Green Movement Has Its Priorities Straight (More or Less…)

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Peter Megyeri via flickr In case you’ve been wondering lately if this whole tree-hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact, the UNEP has just released a new report detailing which human activities are causing the greatest harm. Many of these reports are jargon-filled and sometimes intimidating if you’re not used to reading them and this one is no different;

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BP Stock Plunges: Company Loses $67 Billion in 6 Weeks

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image by Stephen Messenger Evidently, being responsible for the biggest environmental disaster in US history doesn’t come cheap. Over the last 6 weeks, BP has lost a staggering $67 billion — one third the value of the entire company’s market share. The spill has also cost the company an additional $1 billion in cleanup costs so far. In fact, BP’s financial outlook is so dire that some analysts say the company could fall victim to a hostile takeover…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Homeland Security Had Proposed Cutting Emergency Response Budget Before Gulf Spill

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Offshore Surface Oil Forecast Deepwater Horizon MC252, for Monday 31 May, 2010. Image credit: NOAA, DeepwaterHorizonResponse.com Most of the criticisms I’ve seen so far of how the Obama Administration was responding to the Gulf oil spill have been ill-informed ‘Monday Morning Quarterbacking’ by people with no field experience or background in engineering or chemistry. So I pretty much ignored it all, hoping that the pros were ignoring it as well. However, a recent story by the

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New Bill Would Ban Offshore Drilling and Increase Fuel Economy Standard

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via RV We learned yesterday that if the average American were to drive 5.4 miles less every day, we’d eliminate the need to drill in the Gulf — that would be enough to relieve the demand for the 1.75 million barrels that gets pumped out. But could saving gas really be enough incentive to cut out the drilling? Vermont senator Bernie Sanders thinks it could — he’s just introduced legislation that would ban offshore d… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama to Extend Deepwater Drilling Ban for Six Months

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Stig Nygaard via flickr Some small measure of sanity… BBC News , CNN , and others are reporting that President Obama will extend a ban on new deepwater offshore oil drilling for six months, while the causes of the BP oil spill are investigated. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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