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Congressmen call hearing on Gulf oil spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 30th, 2010
Associated Press: Two congressmen will hold hearings to investigate how well companies have responded to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak sent letters requesting the testimony of officials from BP America, Transocean and Halliburton. BP operates the rig, which is owned by Transocean. Halliburton worked on the rig not long before the explosion. The hearings also will look into how recovery efforts are going, and what the companies' safety measures ...
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: No End in Sight for Eco-Disaster
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 30th, 2010
Time Magazine: It may be time to stop referring to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico as an oil spill. A spill sounds like something temporary, a glass of milk overturned, which empties and then can be cleaned up. But what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from the sensitive shorelines of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, isn't a spill. It's an unchecked gush of crude oil from beneath the bottom of the ocean into the water - and no one can say for sure when it ...
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Comments Off on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: No End in Sight for Eco-DisasterPlan B: California braces for climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 30th, 2010
Wired: When it comes to environmental regulation, California doesn`t wait for the Feds to ride in and lay down the law. The Golden State led the way on mandating emissions-control equipment in motor vehicles in 1961. It pioneered tailpipe-emissions standards in 1967 and ratcheted them up into the 1990s, prompting the federal government to follow. When the Environmental Protection Agency proved reluctant to tighten fuel-economy standards, California outmaneuvered it in 2002 by limiting carbon ...
United States: Oil spill approaches gulf coast, threatening economy and environment
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 30th, 2010
Guardian: When Tom Reddoch was growing up in southern Louisiana, on a pencil-thin strip of land flanked on one side by the Mississippi and on the other by a marshy inland waterway, he and his friends used to brag to each other that this was the greatest place on Earth. Children had different expectations back in the 1950s: what they meant was that they would never go hungry. "The one thing we could be certain of is that we would never starve down here. In those days, this was one great protein ...
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