September 4, 2010
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Environmentalists on Saturday praised Burger King's decision to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian company accused of destroying ...
Maricopa County got the bad news it feared Friday when the US Environmental Protection Agency said it would ...
Air pollution plan of Maricopa County is rejected by EPA - AZ Central.com- The donation to the Proposition 23 campaign comes from a subsidiary of Kansas-based Koch Industries, which owns refineries and controls 4,000 miles of oil pipelines.
The fight over a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law has escalated sharply with the Koch brothers, oil billionaires and "tea party" backers, making a million-dollar entry into the fray. - Thursday's fire caused no leak or injuries; its cause is still being investigated. But the incident resounds through the oil-dependent region, and on Capitol Hill.
Louisianans expressed relief Friday that another offshore tragedy had been averted: A second oil facility that caught fire this week did not cause a leak, and no one was hurt. - Scientists at MIT have created Seaswarm, which uses super- absorbent 'nanofabric' to suck up slick on the surface of the ocean. It's too late for the gulf spill, but it offers promise for cleaning up future slicks.
Want to clean up an oil spill? There's a robot for that. A team of scientists at MIT have developed a fleet of oil-absorbing robots — Seaswarm — that clean the ocean by collecting oil with a super-absorbent "nanofabric."…
- The plan would remove soil contaminated with carcinogenic dioxins, heavy metals and radioactive materials. Local activists say the site has been a health risk since a partial meltdown in 1959.
In a major victory for community activists worried about health risks linked to a contaminated former nuclear research facility overlooking the west San Fernando Valley, state and federal authorities on Friday proposed a settlement agreement to clean up the site by 2017.…
- Investigators will study the device to find out why it didn't block what became a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Crews successfully removed the failed blowout preventer from BP's broken oil well Friday, an important step toward killing the well for good and a hopeful development for federal investigators who view the device as key evidence that will be inspected to determine why it did not shut off the disastrous undersea gusher.…
- Reuters - BP Plc successfully replaced a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late on Friday, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said.
- In 2006, California adopted a groundbreaking green plan — best known as AB 32 — to dramatically cut back on carbon emissions, committing to reduce them by 15 percent over 12 years. Just four years later, however, this plan could get derailed by dirty energy companies.
SCHENECTADY -- While many manufacturers across the state are languishing in the recession, Automated Dynamics Inc. of ...