September 3, 2010
MIAMI, Florida, September 2, 2010 (ENS) - Called "relentless" and "dangerous," Hurricane Earl is fast approaching the U.S. Atlantic coast. Packing maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, the Category 2 storm is forecast to hit North Carolina tonight, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Earl is predicted to strike Nantucket and Cape Cod with winds of 100 miles per hour on Friday night, while strong winds, flooding and damage will be felt as far west…
September 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, Lousiana, September 2, 2010 (ENS) - An explosion ripped through an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of central Louisiana at about 9:19 this morning CDT, throwing 13 crewmembers into the water.
U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Petty Officer Prentice Danner says all have been rescued alive by a Coast Guard vessel. All 13 people were wearing immersion suits.
The 13 crewmembers were picked up by the OSV Crystal Clear and taken to another…
BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 2, 2010 (ENS) - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of wind farm developer Cape Wind Associates on Tuesday, rejecting the appeal of a permit the state has granted for transmission lines needed to carry power generated by the wind farm.
The six-member panel of the state's highest court decided 4-2 that the transmission lines to link the country's first offshore wind farm to the region's electric grid could go ahead, but…
BAFFIN BAY, Greenland, September 2, 2010 (ENS) - Four Greenpeace activists who climbed a Cairn Energy oil rig in Greenland waters were arrested this morning and are now being held in police custody in Greenland.
The activists first scaled the oil rig Stena Don on Tuesday. They attached hanging platforms to the underside of the rig where they camped out in tents with self-heating meals until last night.
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September 1, 2010
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, September 1, 2010 (ENS) - Police shot to death a gunman who held three hostages for several hours at the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring. The hostages were not injured.
A man protesting the nature of the Discovery Channel's environmental programming held hostages inside the building this afternoon. Montgomergy County Police shut down all traffic in the surrounding area and were negotiating with the man, identified as James Jay…
August 31, 2010
- MIAMI, Florida, August 31, 2010 (ENS) - A major storm blowing across the northeastern Caribbean Sea has strengthened to a Category Four hurricane, generating sustained winds of 135 miles per hour with higher gusts.
Hurricane Earl has been ripping roofs off buildings, toppling trees and cutting power to islanders on a course that could threaten the eastern United States later this week.
Cruise ships were diverted and flights canceled across the eastern Caribbean region…
August 30, 2010
NEW YORK, New York, August 30, 2010 (ENS) - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "needs to fundamentally reform its management structure and strengthen its procedures," finds a report issued today by the InterAcademy Council, an Amsterdam-based organization of the world's science academies.
While the process used by the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC to produce its climate science assessment reports has been "successful overall," the council recommends that the panel's…
WASHINGTON, DC, August 30, 2010 (ENS) - With battery electric cars, plug-in hybrids and regular hybrids joining gas-powered cars and light trucks in the marketplace, the Obama administration today proposed updated fuel economy labels to be pasted to the window of every new vehicle in dealer showrooms.
The U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are seeking public comment on two new designs for the window stickers that are intended to…
HOUSTON, Texas, August 30, 2010 (ENS) - Locally turbulent weather at the BP/Deepwater Horizon well site has put on hold operations to bring up equipment that will become evidence in several ongoing investigations. The heavy sets of valves, one as tall as a five-story building - must be brought up from 5,000 feet below the surface, a tricky maneuver in the best weather conditions.
Briefing reporters from the Development Driller III rig out on the well site, National Incident…
August 28, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 28, 2010 (ENS) - On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and members of the Cabinet will travel Sunday to New Orleans.
The President will speak at Xavier University to commemorate the more than 1,836 lives lost and the sacrifices that the Gulf Coast has made to recover after Katrina.
The hurricane wrought some $110 billion in…