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BP Pipeline Spills Oil Onto Alaskan Tundra

12:49 pm in Business & Politics, gulf oil spill, oil, united states by TreeHugger

bp-oil-spill-alaska.jpg Photo credit: Ryan McFarland via Zieak/CC BY BP can't seem to get enough of letting oil loose. It must be quite a rush -- dumping toxic liquids on pristine environments, all the explosions, breaking records for the largest offshore oil disaster in American history. Whooo-weee! The latest, a spill resulting from a leak in BP's Alaska pipeline, is no Gulf spill, to be sure. But it's a reminder that where companies drill and transport oil -- especially notoriously reckless companies like BP -- that oil has a habit of spilling ......Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Year Later, 530 Miles Of Gulf Coast Still Contaminated With Oil

10:37 am in gulf oil spill, pollution, Science & Technology, united states by TreeHugger

via internet business politics Nearly a year after the Gulf oil spill and persistent PR on the part of BP to the contrary some 530 miles of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida remain contaminated by oil, a spokesperson for NOAA has told Bloomberg. At the height of the spill 1,074 miles of shoreline was contaminated. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Using Dispersants Makes Oil Spills Worse, Scientists Find

4:04 pm in Business & Politics, gulf oil spill, oil, united states by TreeHugger

chemical-dispersent-bp-spill.jpg Photo credit: NRDC pix via Flickr/CC BY I hate to say I told you so -- and I won't. Not exactly. But ever since I first discovered that there were myriad environmental and health risks involved in dumping a toxic chemical dispersant on the Gulf in order to break up the oil, I've been working to keep you abreast of those dangers. And now, it appears that many of the concerns of experts I spoke with around the Gulf have...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Official BP Spill Death Toll Too Low? New Data Shows 1,200 Oiled Birds Found in Pensacola Alone

5:10 pm in animals, Business & Politics, gulf oil spill, united states. oil by TreeHugger

gulf-spill-birds-dead-tally.jpg Photo credit: Brian Merchant Everyone seems to be forgetting about the BP spill -- except, of course, for the millions of people still dealing with it every day. So, in an effort to prevent the event from vanishing from our collective memories completely (it seems already to have escaped our finest politicians, who are moving ahead with plans for more offshore drilling) I try to make sure to check in on the Gulf now and again. So here's a recent development from Pensacola -- newly released documents reveal that at least 1,200 oiled...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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House of Reps Passes Bill to Expand Offshore Drilling

3:07 pm in Business & Politics, congress, gulf oil spill, oil, united states by TreeHugger

house-expand-drilling-offshore.jpg Photo credit: eschipul via Flickr/CC BY-SA Just weeks after the 1-year anniversary of the BP Gulf spill, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would force the US government to offer more offshore drilling leases to oil companies. All but two Republicans voted for the bill, and 33 Democrats voted in favor as well. As I've taken to saying, Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Voters Want Clean Energy, Not Drilling, Poll Finds

5:59 pm in Business & Politics, clean energy, congress, gulf oil spill, oil, united states by TreeHugger

clean-energy-not-drilling.jpg Photo: Mike Baird via Flickr/CC BY I reported yesterday that there's a major push from the GOP to vastly expand offshore drilling and to loosen regulations to boot -- they have, evidently learned zilch from last year's catastrophic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But they're persisting -- they falsely claim that rising gas prices could be alleviated by more drilling. A claim that, Read the full story on TreeHugger

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GOP Launches Push to Expand Offshore Drilling

4:51 pm in Business & Politics, gulf oil spill, oil, united states by TreeHugger

bills-expand-offshore-drilling.jpg Photo: US Coast Guard Remember that epic disaster that killed 11 people, soiled miles of coastline around the Gulf of Mexico, wiped out thousands of jobs, damaged the ecosystem there in ways that we're only just beginning to understand, and made residents from Louisiana to Florida sick? If you do, perhaps you should remind your Republican congressman -- because it doesn't seem like he does. See, the GOP is pushing three different bills that seek not only to expand the area permitted for offshore drilling, but -- and I'm not kid...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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