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...
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Gulf residents miffed as BP resumes paying dividends
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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,...
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...
91,000 Gulf oil spill claims, just 1 final payment
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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BP, others ask judge to dismiss Gulf oil spill claims
BP and other companies sued over the massive Gulf oil spill are asking a federal judge to dismiss many of the claims filed by businesses and people who say they have been...
BP reneges on deal to rebuild oyster beds, repair wetlands, Louisiana officials say
BP has reneged on promises made in November to negotiate early payments to Louisiana to help rebuild oyster beds, repair damaged wetlands and build a fish hatchery to...
91,000 Gulf oil spill claims, just 1 final payment
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,...
US sets up security zone around BP oil spill site
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,...
Gulf corals in oil spill zone appear healthy
AP - Just 20 miles north of where BP's blown-out well spewed millions of gallons of oil into the sea, life appears bountiful despite initial fears that crude could...
Green groups sue BP over oil spill's effects on endangered species
Several green groups used the six-month anniversary of the BP oil spill to sue the company over the alleged effects on endangered sea turtles, manatees and other Gulf of...
Scientists: Gulf turtle rescue plan succeeds
Scientists have revealed that a mammoth effort to move thousands of turtle eggs from beaches around the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have saved...
White House panel: Oil companies must show ability to clean up spills
Reuters - Oil companies should be required to prove they can respond to major oil spills before they are allowed to acquire leases for offshore oil and gas development,...
NIH to use BP cash to study spill health effects
Reuters - The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it would use $10 million from BP to start a multiyear study to look at the potential health effects from...
Turbulent sea stalls effort to kill oil well
Thad Allen, the government's point man on the BP oil disaster, and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser will meet Tuesday before briefing the public on the...
Take It With a Grain of (Sea) Salt: Gulf Microbe Study Was Funded by BP
by Marian Wang. Earlier this week, major news outlets ran with headlines about how a new microbe has been found eating up BP's oil, and how microbes have degraded the...
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