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Chemical dispersants used in oil spill have harmful and unknown effects
(The following blog by Natural Resources Defense Council oceans expert Regan Nelson was first posted on the NRDC site under the headline Chemical Dispersants: The Lesser of Two Evils?) By Regan Nelson...
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Donate hair to help mitigate the oil spill
From Green Right Now Reports Here’s a great way to use your head, without much brain strain. Donate your hair to help protect the gulf coast beaches being soiled by the BP oil spill. A Matter of Trust...
View ArticleModels suggest oil spill may move up Atlantic Coast, out to sea
From Green Right Now Reports Everyone knows there is a whole lot of oil floating around in the Gulf of Mexico, but where is it going? According to at least one computer modeling study, the Atlantic...
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Oil spills, and the economics and environmental impact of resource depletion
(This essay was published by Post Carbon Institute on June 1, 2010 under the headline, The End Is Nigh – Deepwater Horizon and the Technology, Economics, and Environmental Impacts of Resource...
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Hands Across the Sands: The story in photos
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now In a symbolic but moving gesture, the Hands Across the Sands oil drilling protest on Saturday brought out people from Miami to Melbourne to stand in solidarity for...
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What about the whales? Research effort looking for oil’s impact
By Melissa Segrest Green Right Now There are more than 1,600 sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists are in search of them to test for the oil spill's impact. Photo courtesy NOAA. An...
View ArticleHow to — and how not to — help dolphins during the oil spill
From Green Right Now Reports You’ve probably encountered those “Don’t Feed the Bears” signs in national parks. Well, it’s true of dolphins also. NOAA has put out notice that the public should not...
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BP oil spill clean up by the numbers — post gusher
From Green Right Now Reports With the elections nearing, fall weather setting in and the holidays soon to follow, that BP oil spill horror is receding in the public’s rear view mirror. Billy Maher, a...
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Oil industry still unaccountable one year after BP disaster
From Green Right Now Reports Environmentalists marking the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill remain angry that oil companies drilling in deep waters continue to operate with little...
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Tar sands oil spills near Little Rock
Several homeowners in a Little Rock suburb were evacuated over the weekend after a pipeline spilled an estimated 2,000 barrels (84,000 gallons) of tar sands bitumen in their neighborhood. The oil,...
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Exxon pushes back on Mayflower spill, says it was not diluted bitumen
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now As ugly pictures of the grimy, tarry aftermath of the oil spill in Arkansas continue to emerge, ExxonMobil is calling “time out” on some of the media coverage. The...
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