AP - BP's compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims has issued a final settlement payment to just one of the thousands of people and businesses waiting for checks,...
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91,000 Gulf oil spill claims, just 1 final payment
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The Bronx gets biodiesel (from restaurant waste) station
Ladies and Gentlemen, start your biodiesel engines: New York finally has a gas station pumping chicken fried fuel.A Sunoco station in the South Bronx has installed four...
US Department of Interior leads scientific integrity effort
When the White House Office of Science and Technology policy issued a long-awaited memo on scientific integrity in December 2010, watchdog groups said proof of the...
Al Gore responds to Bill O’Reilly on snow-climate nexus
Al Gore is taking Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly up on his request to address this winter’s snowstorms.O’Reilly – on the Jan. 27 edition of The O’Reilly Factor – asked,...
Gulf residents miffed as BP resumes paying dividends
AP - BP's decision to resume paying dividends rankled Gulf Coast residents Tuesday who saw it as another sign the company wants to move on even though many are still...
Climate scientists to Congress: 'There are no Democratic or Republican carbon dioxide molecules'
More than a dozen scientists took aim at climate skeptics in a letter to members of Congress late last week, calling on lawmakers to put aside politics and focus on the...
China gives green light to mega (21.3 GW) dam
Hydroelectric power company Huadian will build a cascade of 13 dams in the spectacular "Grand Canyon of the Orient"China's dam builders will press ahead...
Cummings presses trade groups for replies to Issa query
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s top Democrat is pressing trade associations – including energy groups – for their replies to Committee Chairman...
Rockefeller floats bill to delay EPA climate rules by two years
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) introduced his bill to delay by two years the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions...
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AFP - A security zone has been set up around the site of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to safeguard any evidence of the environmental disaster earlier this year,...
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