Photo via Reuters The Kerry-Lieberman clean energy and jobs bill was handicapped from the day it was introduced — co-drafter Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had inexplicably jumped ship , and expanded offshore drilling allowances were included in the bill, despite the ongoing BP oil… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Forget About the Climate Bill. Here’s the "BP Spill Bill"
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With the BP oil leak continuing to threaten the gulf states,
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The BP Oil Spill Has Folks Singin’ the Blues (Video)
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Photo via Freedom Blogging Say what? As millions of gallons of oil spew out of the Gulf , and much of it threatening to make landfall on his state, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has called for … more offshore drilling. Citing “concerns for the economic impact” of discontinuing drilling, he wrote a letter to Obama asking the president to lift the newly imposed moratorium. Yes, you read that correctly: the man in charge of Louisiana, the state likely to be most devastated b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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WTF: Louisiana Governor Calls for More Offshore Drilling
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This isn’t the whole comic, go to the site to see the whole thing. Image: XKCD , Creative Commons. “A Rolling, alligator-filled wall of flame!” I won’t write too much here because there’s a kind of Catch 22 going on: If you are a geek, chances are you’ve already read this comic, and if you aren’t, chances are you won’t like XKCD. But it’s still cool to see Randall Munroe (XKCD’s creator) give his take on the BP oil spill (hey, it could be worse, just ask Michael Ba… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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XKCD on BP Oil Spill (Featuring Michael Bay!)
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Images via Nokia Nokia holds a proud ranking of one of the greenest tech companies around, applauded by everyone from Greenpeace to Dow Jones . The company has earned the accolades with tough standards fro green, and they’ve just released two green things we like: profiles of every new gadget they … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nokia Unveils Eco Profiles of Every Device, and Bike-Powered Cell Phone Charger
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Image via the US Coast Guard According to a Rasmussen poll , not all Americans are angry with BP, despite the fact that the company has put thousands of people out of work, and the still-uncontrolled spill in the Gulf . In fact, a full 22% evidently still view the oil giant favorably. Which to me, is a pretty surprising number. It’s not that I expected everyone to immediately… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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1/5th of Americans Still View BP Favorably
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Introducing the Best Way Yet to Visualize the Gulf Oil Spill All those vague references from newscasters about how the BP Gulf spill is as big as this US state or that US state got you yearning for a better way to visualize the spill? If It Was My Home has it. Using Google Maps and data from NASA satellites, the clever interactive map lets you build a frame of reference for the spill’s vastness … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Surprise! The BP Gulf Spill is as Big as these Nations and States …
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photo: Andy Zeigert via flickr You’ve probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast the leak out of existence. Thankfully, according to a New York Times report, the US government has no plans to act on what one senior official described as a “crazy” plan:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher
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Photo via the First Post BP’s attempts to stop the gushing oil geyser it unleashed upon the Gulf of Mexico have only sounded like Hollywood plot contrivances: Lower a giant ‘top hat’ over the leak! Let’s go for operation: ‘top kill” to blast the thing shut. Or how about a giant ‘junk shot’ to plug it with garbage. So if BP execs’ plans to halt the oil flow were the stuff of B-movies, what would real H… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Can’t Stop the Massive Oil Leak – Can Hollywood?
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Image credit: Peak Moment TV It’s been called creepy by some, but my obsession with pee and poop is not without good reason. (Hey, it got me on Lloyd’s Valentine’s Day list .) From peeing in public to the selective flush , how we deal with our bodily wastes on a Global scale has huge implications for our sust… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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DIY Composting Toilets and Humanure: The Pee & Poop Show (Video)
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