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BP Offers $70 Million in Cash to Gas Station Owners

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| 1 Comment

Photo via Green BP has announced plans to send cash to suffering gas stations in the US — which is pretty revealing. It’s evidence that the numerous boycotts against BP that have been orchestrated across the nation are indeed having a very distinct, very significant impact. Those boycotts and the bad PR have had a serious and immediate financial impact, and will validate such action in the eyes of many activists. But BP plans to push back…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is It Raining Oil in the Gulf? (Video)

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

You may have seen this video, which has surfaced on a number of blogs and has registered over half a million hits: It purports to show oil literally raining from the sky in Louisiana. And watch the clip — which I’ve embedded right after the jump — and you’ll see that it certainly looks a lot like oil. But can oil from the BP Gulf spill really evaporate and then get dumped down miles away as rain?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vacationers Ignore Tar Balls, Children Play on Oiled Beach (Video)

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

And now for your daily dose of WTF. A man visiting Destin Beach, Florida, took this incredible video, showing what at first appears to be a typical summer day at the beach: People lounging on towels, folks swimming, children playing in the break. And then he zooms in a little closer onto the sand, and — well, just watch: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tar Sands Poised to Become the Next Fossil Fuels Disaster

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Syncrude tar sands operation in Canada. Photo by David Dodge of the Pembina Institute. If we could go back in time before the BP Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, what would we learn? What steps would have helped avert what is now the nation’s worst environmental disaster? Could this hindsight help us prevent similar catastrophes in the future? Would our political leaders have the moral compass to “get it right” this time around?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Unbelievable, Unlikely Animal Friendships (Slideshow)

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via The Daily Mail Friendship is good for your health — whether you’re human or animal. Take this baby macaque, abandoned by its mother and close to death until it became best friend’s with a pigeon. The macaque is thriving and the pair are inseparable. But they aren’t the only tear-jerking, unbelievable friendships you’ll find in the animal world: From a sheep that brought a baby elephant out of a deep depression to natural enemies that snuggle down together for every nap, these 10 heartwarming interspecies relations… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Listen Up Senate: Majority of Americans Want Clean Energy Reform

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via the DCist Yet another poll has rolled in, revealing in clear terms — and by wide margins — that US citizens want comprehensive clean energy reform. Even if they have to pay more in energy costs . The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll , conducted by McCain pollster Bill McInturff (R), along with Peter Hart (D), found that by a stunning 2 to 1 margin, Americans want good, comprehensive energy reform that reduces carbon emissions and stimulates clean energy development. Here’s the breakdown:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Threadless Sells T-shirt to Fund BP Gulf Oil Spill Recovery

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All proceeds from sales of the PeliCAN T-shirt will go to the Gulf Restoration Network. Images via Threadless.com . Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Online T-shirt seller Threadless is at it again. Known for pitching in for a good cause, the company is donating all proceeds from the sale of an oil spill-inspired T-shirt to the Gu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Brief History of Presidential Promises to End US Oil Addiction, by Jon Stewart (Video)

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Yannig Roth Each and every one of the last 8 presidents, at one point during their presidencies, announced to the public that the United States needs to end its dependence on oil. Whether it was Carter, Nixon, or even George W., they all sounded the call for a shift towards cleaner, safer energies. Obama did it again last Tuesday night. Of course, we all know where each of those respective calls for action have landed us … Here, Jon Stewart takes us on a farcical tour of the history of presiden… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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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