"Gulf Spill Could Have Alaska Repercussions"
"The oil gushing from a Gulf of Mexico oil well has the potential to touch Alaska in many ways."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 05/03/2010
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"Climate Bill Could Be Harmed By Gulf Oil Spill"
"A historic environmental protection bill is in danger after a massive oil spill put a new focus on the perils of offshore drilling, a feature that was supposed to win wider support for the legislation."
Source: Huffington Post, 05/03/2010
"Rig Explosion Dirties BP's Green Image"
"BP brands itself a friend of the environment, an energy company that goes 'beyond petroleum.' That image, worth billions of dollars, is being sullied by the company's inability to contain a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: AP, 04/30/2010
Federal Agencies Launch Investigations into Rig Explosion, Fire
"The US government made its first major moves on Apr. 27 in response to the Apr. 20 explosion and fire on the Transocean Ltd. Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible rig in the Gulf of Mexico as the Departments of Interior and Homeland Security launched a joint investigation."
Source: Oil & Gas Journal, 04/30/2010
"Congress Investigating Oil Rig Explosion"
"Lawmakers on Tuesday asked the owner and operator of the oil rig that exploded last week in the Gulf of Mexico for documents as part of a congressional investigation into the accident."
Source: AP, 04/30/2010
"FEMA Trailer Safety Debated by Congress as Public Sale Continues"
A congressional hearing Wednesday highlighted the environmental dangers of the 100,000 trailer FEMA has sold, but there is apparently little Congress can do about it.
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/29/2010
Vets Group Says Climate Change a Security Threat
A group of veterans is touring the country with the message that climate change is destabilizing countries that harbor terrorists, and that the dollars Americans spend on foreign oil are funding terrorists.
Source: Florence Morning News, 04/29/2010
"Cape Wind, First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm, Approved"
"The first U.S. offshore wind farm, a giant project 5 miles off the Massachusetts coast, was approved on Wednesday after years of opposition involving everyone from local Indian tribes to the Kennedy family."
Source: Reuters, 04/29/2010
"Lawmakers Propose Boost To Clean Energy Exports"
"A group of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday proposed legislation to promote U.S. exports of clean energy technology, which they said are badly lagging behind those of China and Europe."
Source: Reuters, 04/28/2010
Scientists Find Ancient Asphalt Domes Off California Coast
"Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore. The deposits hardened into domes that were discovered recently by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and UC Santa Barbara (UCSB."
Source: AFP, 04/28/2010
