The Interior Department on Saturday defended its controversial six-month ban on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling following revelations that the agency estimated it would...
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Oil claims process to be 'generous'
Kenneth Feinberg, the man tasked with personally administering $20 billion escrow account told reporters he plans to be more generous than the courts would be.
International Research Team Develops Ultrahigh-power Micro Supercapacitors
A team of researchers from the US and France report the development of micro-supercapacitors with powers per volume that are comparable to electrolytic capacitors,...
You gotta get that dirt off your solar panels
The problem: solar panels in dusty areas get dusty and lose capacity. The solution: self-cleaning solar panels.
Cheetos bags, diapers remade into trash cans
How green is your trash can? Recycling firm TerraCycle has created plastic garbage cans out of chip bags. The process reportedly produces about 40 percent less CO2 emis
Inuit villages sue to stop seismic tests for oil, gas
Above the Arctic Circle in Canada near Greenland, five Inuit villages have won a court order that blocks a German icebreaker from conducting seismic tests of an underwater...
Species extinctions happening before our eyes
In the past, research has predicted that global warming could lead to the extinction of more than one-fifth of animal and plant species. This research has largely been...
Gov't: 23K workers affected by Gulf oil drill ban
A six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would directly put more than 9,000 people out of work and indirectly affect another 14,000 jobs, according to a...
24 Years After Chernobyl, Radioactive Boars Still Roam Germany
A quarter-century after the catastrophe, Chernobyl can't stay out of the news.When fires broke out in Russia this month, people worried that the flames would spread...
The Deepwater Horizon Spill by the Numbers
665 miles of coastline contaminated by oil. 4.9 million barrels of oil leaked. 19 times more oil spilled than from the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
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FBR Capital Markets believes political pressure on the Interior Department is “likely to abate somewhat” now that the department has approved the first deepwater oil...
BP owns almost half of approved deepwater well
BP owns nearly half of the deep-water well that the Interior Department approved on Monday, National Journal has learned.BP, whose Macondo well exploded in April and...
Oil drilling to resume in the gulf’s deep waters
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Oil spill panel finds Obama’s regulatory overhaul insufficient, industry ‘complacent’
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Obama Admin Report: Minimal impacts from drilling moratorium
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Job Losses Over Drilling Ban Fail to Materialize
The worst forecasts have failed to materialize as companies wait to see how long the moratorium will last before making cuts.
Salazar stresses need to be more scientific about future of offshore gas and oil drilling
The Secretary of Interior penned an Op-Ed in the Houston Chronicle
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