Microbes Take Bite Out of Gulf Oil Spill

Debate has been raging over government claims that only a quarter of the oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico by BP remains, but some scientists say naturally occurring bacteria have been eating away at the oil at such a rapid pace that much of it…

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BP’s Blowout Could Be ‘The Three Mile Island of Offshore Drilling’

Three Mile Island. Image credit: WIkipedia I’m a big fan of scenario thinking

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Is The BP Spill Big Enough To Resuscitate The Environmental Movement?

The Blue Marble from Apollo 17, taken on December 7, 1972 Image credit: NASA, Earth Observatory Floating residues from the ongoing BP oil ‘blowout’ in the Gulf are expansive enough to be easily visible from space. Satellite photos of oil on salt water may even impact the politics of environment in the USA, just as did NASA’s first photos of the Blue Planet two years after the first Earth Day, helping inspire Congress to pass major pieces of environmental legislation

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Sea Shepherd Begins ‘Operation Blue Rage’ – Sails to Protect Endangered Bluefin Tuna in Mediterranean

photo: Sea Shepherd Fresh off success harassing Japan’s whaling fleet in Antarctic waters, members of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have just sailed from New York in the Steve Irwin and are en route to the Mediterranean to undertake Operation Blue Rage .

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The Political and Economic Effects of Earthquakes

In 1783, another icelandic volcano, Laki, erupted and kept spitting out ash and 120 tons of sulfur dioxide (equal to 3 times the annual industrial output of Europe) and 8 million tons of hydrogen flouride. 25% of the population of Iceland died, either from famine or from the flouride

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US Trade Group Wants Stanky, Formaldehyde-Laced FEMA Trailers Sent To Haiti

“Pimp my FEMA trailer.” Image credit: SwampPlot.com FEMA has put the notorious Katrina Trailers, some 100,000 of them, up for auction; and the bidding has apparently driven down prices for the new models. Hence, lobbyists for the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association have suggested sending empty Katrina trailers to Haiti as a ‘humanitarian gesture.’ The Haitian government, as stressed and desperate as it is, isn’t falling for it. Per a CBS station , ” Haitian Culture and Co..

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Joliet Illinois Wants To Dump More Radium On Open Lands

Subsurface injection of biosolids, aka “sludge.” Image credit :CCUA.info This strange tale is a synopsis of a lengthy story related by the Chicago Tribune . Dozens of municipalities in northeastern Illinois, including such Chicago suburbs as Joliet, Bartlett, and Batavia, are required to remove radium before distributing the water to customers.

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Obama Takes It to House Republicans, Talks Energy Policy

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Coalition Says MN Climate Solution Includes Nukes

The Prairie Island nuclear plant at Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River.  Nuclear power advocates want to repeal the state’s 15-year-old ban on new nuclear plants. The state that enacted one of the nation’s most farsighted clean energy laws in 2007 may be a battleground over nuclear power in 2010.  A coalition of interest groups wants to repeal Minnesota’s 15-year-old moratorium on new nuclear plants. Like pro-nuke interests elsewhere, the Minnesota coalition is arguing that nuclear power is a clean solution to climate change problems.

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Coalition Says MN Climate Solution Includes Nukes

The Prairie Island nuclear plant at Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River.  Nuclear power advocates want to repeal the state’s 15-year-old ban on new nuclear plants. The state that enacted one of the nation’s most farsighted clean energy laws in 2007 may be a battleground over nuclear power in 2010.  A coalition of interest groups wants to repeal Minnesota’s 15-year-old moratorium on new nuclear plants.

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