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BP CEO Testifies Before Congress (Live)

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Obama’s Oval Office Gulf Spill Speech: Bold Plan or Empty Rhetoric? (Video)

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Dispatch from the Gulf Oil Spill: The Slippery Fate of Bird Island

Image credit: Philippe Cousteau My sister Alexandra’s flight was delayed last night so she didn’t get in until after midnight. We were all sorry she couldn’t join us for dinner and a toast to my grandfather for what would have been his 100 birthday. Despite the late night we got moving around 8:30 for the two hour drive to Grand Isle. Neither my sister nor my mother had been down to witness this disaster with their own eyes and as environmental leaders it was important for them to do so. It was fixing to be another hot day as the thermometer in the car was reading almost 90 degrees and it was not even 9AM. Typical for this time o… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Gulf Oil Spill By the Numbers

Image of oil spill on June 10th via NASA The BP Gulf spill has long been declared the greatest environmental disaster in US history. Millions of lives have been impacted, thousands of livelihoods lost, and unquantifiable damage done to wildlife and ecosystems. And while president Obama took the oval office last night to deliver a speech chock full of soaring rhetoric , many of the hard facts about the spill weren’t covered. So, in the interest of s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What, Exactly, is BP Hiding from Reporters?

Images via the Huffington Post and the AP By now, enough incidents have been confirmed and/or caught on tape to say that BP is indeed preventing the press from accessing some impacted areas. Reporters from Newsweek, NPR, PBS , CBS , a number of local news organizations, and many more have all been turned away from public beach… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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San Francisco Rules for Cell Phone Radiation Warnings at Retailers

Photo via Guwashi999 Cell phone radiation and its impacts on health is still a highly controversial issue with the debate raging on whether or not humans are at risk every time they hold their phone to their head. Nevertheless, some municipalities aren’t willing to take the chance that one day researchers will indeed conclude we’re frying our brains and all this while they did li… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oil Spill Esimate DOUBLED AGAIN: 2.5 Million Gallons Leaking a Day

Photo via Reuters Well, things keep on getting better and better in the ongoing saga of catastrophe that is the BP Gulf oil spill . Shortly after Obama took to the oval office to give a speech to reassure the nation about the spill , officials released the newest estimates of how much oil was leaking from the Deepwater Horizon site. And they weren’t pretty:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama’s Gulf Spill Speech: "We Cannot Consign Our Children to this Future"

Photo via the New York Times Obama just wrapped his first address to the nation from the oval office, discussing the federal response to the BP Gulf spill and how the event relates to energy policy in general. The speech was pretty standard Obama — plenty of powerful rhetoric and sweeping appeals to look forward. What I was listening for, however, weren’t vague reassurances and calls to rally around clean energy. I was looking for any hints of the actual policy ideas the president intends to support to actually set those appeals into action. Here’s what I found: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Most Major Oil Co’s Have Same Fabricated Spill "Response Plan" as BP

Image via Ocean World Earlier today, executives from other major oil companies engaged in offshore drilling testified before Washington. They attempted to convince the legislators that their drilling procedures and containment plans were much safer than BP’s, and that they can be trusted to continue drilling safely in deep waters. But some disturbing details surfaced at the hearing: Especially that many of the major oil companies’ response plans in the event of a major spill were ac… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why Won’t the Media Report the Link Between Global Warming and Extreme Storms?

A flooded neighborhood in Nashville, TN. Photo via Gulf News A surprising number of regions in the US have been struck by extreme deluges this year: among them, Tennessee, Oklahoma, New England, Georgia. The events have been tragic, with lives lost and cities paralyzed. And if it weren’t for a certain oily catastrophe, we’d probably be hearing a lot more about them. But we still likely wouldn’t be hearing about the connection between such weather events and global warming…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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