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BP Disaster Anniversary a Reminder of Regulatory Changes Needed

Dennis Takahashi-Kelso | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Beaufort Sea, Department of Interior, Environment, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Chukchi Sea, Deepwater Horizon, Oceans, BP Oil Spill, Coast Guard, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Exxon Valdez, Arctic, Offshore Drilling, Bp Oil Spill Anniversary, Smarter Ideas, Green News

We need to decide whether it is appropriate to lease sensitive areas of the ocean for oil and gas development. To make smart decisions, though, we need solid scientific information -- and that information does not exist for most "frontier" areas.

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Shell Supports Iran's Murderous Mullahs; Should We Be Supporting Shell?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Energy, Cnbc, Alaska, Department of the Interior, World, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Iran, Neda Agha Soltan, Beaufort Sea, Wall Street Journal, Iran's Mullahs, National Iranian Oil Company, Shell Oil, Business News

The callous greed in the oil patch seems to know no limits. Here we have a company, Royal Dutch Shell, bursting with earnings, at the apogee of its yearly returns, going after the last dollar or Euro to make things fatter still.

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Alaska's Seals Not Sickened By Fukushima Radiation, Scientists Believe

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 04.19.2012

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lesions and other symptoms associated with sickened or dead ringed seals along Alaska's northern coast last year were proba...

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Alaska To Push Back Oil And Gas Lease Sale

AP | BECKY BOHRER | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Alaska Oil and Gas Lease Sale, Alaska Gas Lease Sale, Beaufort Sea, Oil Lease Sales, Alaska Oil Lease Sale, Oil and Gas Lease Sales, National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, Alaska, Gas Lease Sales, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Green News

JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska is pushing back what it says will be one of the biggest oil and gas lease sales in the U.S. this year, citing the potent...

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Are We Really Ready to Expose Our Arctic Waters to the Threat of a Major Oil Spill?

Dennis Takahashi-Kelso | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Arctic Drilling, Oil Drilling, Beaufort Sea, Oil, Polar Bears, Deepwater Horizon, Chukchi Sea, North Sea, Alaska, Gulf Oil Spill, Canada, Shell Oil, Arctic, Exxon Valdez, Offshore Drilling, Arctic Oil, Green News

The icy waters north of Alaska are home to polar bears, walruses and whales; it's a fragile environment, and our understanding of this unique marine ecosystem is not well developed.

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North Sea Spill Reveals Risks of Drilling in the More Remote, Less Regulated Arctic

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Britain, Norway, Bp, Beaufort Sea, North Sea, Alaska, Gulf Oil Spill, Offshore Drilling, Arctic, Deepwater Horizon, Offshore Drilling Regulation, Obama Offshore Drilling, Offshore Drilling Obama, Green News

Drilling in the inhospitable waters of the Arctic Oceans presents far more logistical and environmental challenges than the well-charted North Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

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BPing the Arctic, Again -- Fast-Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Indigenous Human Rights, Charles Monnett, Arctic Drilling, Climate Change, Green News, Chukchi Sea, Polar Bear, Beaufort Sea, Animals, Shell Oil, Boemre, Green News

We must envision and fight for a sustainable and clean energy future for our sake, our future generation and for all life on earth.

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Fill the Gaps in Arctic Science Before We Decide on Drilling

Dennis Takahashi-Kelso | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Interior Department, Oil Drilling, Beaufort Sea, Oil, Chukchi Sea, Arctic, Offshore Drilling, Shell Oil, Polar Bears, Green News

We have the opportunity to do things right in Arctic waters, but only if we take the time to understand this extraordinary and fragile part of our national and natural heritage

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Arctic Drilling: Lessons Learned From the Deepwater Horizon Spill

Marilyn Heiman | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Oil Spills, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, British Petroleum, British Petroleum Oil Spill, Arctic, Offshore Drilling, Green News

Government must ensure strong prevention, containment and response measures that are on site and ready to go given the Arctic's remote and extreme conditions.

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Earth Activism: What We Don't Want

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Fred Upton, Shell, Animals, Beaufort Sea, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Oil Drilling, Activism, Climate Change, Mountaintop Coal Mining, Environment, Green News, Chukchi Sea, Deregulation, Global Warming, Green News

The EPA is under attack from the Republicans, and we must fight to protect the very agency that works to protect public and ecological health in America. Is this a private fight or can anyone get in it? Earth activism is a public fight.

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BP Plans Alaska Arctic Drilling In 2013

AP | BECKY BOHRER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Rinehart, Manmade Island, BP PLC, Energy, Bp Goals, Bp 2013, Liberty Rig, Beaufort Sea, Environment, Deep Sea Drilling, Gravel Island, Green News

JUNEAU, Alaska — BP PLC estimates that it could begin producing oil off Alaska's coast in 2013, despite the fact that construction of the massiv...

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We Have the Technology -- Let's Go

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arctic Drilling, Chukchi Sea, Green News, Beaufort Sea, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Shell, Offshore Drilling, Shell Offshore Drilling, Alaska Oil, Alaska Drilling, New Energy Economy, New Mexico Clean Energy, Green News

When you hear -- "We have the technology, let's go" -- you might perhaps think the statement came from a stately presidential announcement. As it happens that statement didn't come from any presidential address. It was printed on a Shell ad.

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After The Arctic Spill -- Shell, Palin and Obama

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arctic Drilling, Shell, Climate Change, Green News, Oil, Chukchi Sea, Polar Bear, Critical Habitat Designation, Beaufort Sea, Bp Spill, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Green News

Did the administration approve Shell to go drill in the Arctic or not and if yes, then when? The truth it seems is somewhere in between.

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Cancún Opens for GREEN Business, but REDD Will Destroy Indigenous Forest Cultures

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

How would anyone who is supporting REDD feel if they're evicted from their home -- it's been happening a lot in U.S. with the real-estate collapse and no one likes it. So why would we support REDD?

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Thankful for Polar Bear Habitat But Shell Must Not Go There

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 112th Congress, Arctic Drilling, Shell, Climate Change, Green News, Oil, Chukchi Sea, Polar Bear, Critical Habitat Designation, Beaufort Sea, Global Warming, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Slidepollajax, Green News

Will Obama deny-or-grant Shell the permit to go drill-and-destroy the critical habitat of polar bears that he just designated?

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Why We Can't Have Another One Hundred Years of Fossil-Digging in North America

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

We've burned coal-and-oil for more than hundred years that has resulted in the human-made climate change we're dealing with right now. We cannot allow one more hundred years of the same.

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Shell's 'Let's Go' Ad in HuffPo: Why We Mustn't Allow Shell to Go... to America's Arctic Seas

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Last Sunday, after I posted my most recent blog, "Climate Educators Wanted," I visited the Green page in HuffPost. My eyes lit up. Before my eyes, the...

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Ship Lost For More Than 150 Years Recovered In Canada

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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TORONTO — Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was...

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Arctic Faces Offshore Oil Danger in July

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Chukchi Sea, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Beaufort Sea, Deepwater Horizon, Arctic Ocean, Shell Oil, Offshore Drilling, Offshore Oil Drilling, Green News

In just two months, Shell Oil could do in America's Arctic Ocean what British Petroleum has done in the Gulf of Mexico -- drill an environmental time bomb without being able to defuse it or deal with the consequences of it going off.

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SHOCK: Offshore Drilling Decision Seems Unlikely To Result In GOP Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Delaware, West Coast, Dan Bartlett, Obama, Climate Change, Offshore Drilling, Video, Virginia, John Boehner, East Coast, Ken Salazar, Opec, Oceans, North Carolina, Alaska, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Exports, Oil Imports, Oil, Oil Drilling, Beaufort Sea, Bristol Bay, Moratorium, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Georgia, South Carolina, Green News, Chukchi Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Energy, Climate Bill, Eat the Press, Green News

As mentioned before, the conventional wisdom on President Obama's decision to backtrack on his previous support for a moratorium on drilling is that h...

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Obama Announces Drilling Policy In Front Of Toyota Prius Of Fighter Planes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama, despite having previously supported a moratorium on offshore oil drilling during the 2008 presidential campaign, has announced...

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Obama Oil Drilling Plan: East Coast, Alaska Waters Could Open For Drilling

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, White House, Moratorium, Oil Imports, Opec, Beaufort Sea, Oil Exports, West Coast, Obama, Georgia, Bristol Bay, Virginia, Oil Drilling, South Carolina, Oil, East Coast, Delaware, Chukchi Sea, Florida, Climate Change, Oceans, Alaska, Ken Salazar, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, Climate Bill, North Carolina, Video, Green News

Scroll down to watch video of President Obama arguing against offshore drilling during his 2008 presidential campaign. (Washington/AP) Reversing a ba...

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Shell Wins Federal Approval To Drill For Oil Off Alaska Coast

Washington Post | Steven Mufson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Camden Bay, Leases, Beaufort Sea, Shell, Point Thompson Alaska, Open-Water Drilling, Mms, Exxon Valdez, Point Thompson, Sierra Club, Oil Drilling, Minerals Management Service, Alaska Coast, Drilling, Oil, Permits, Alaska, Interior Department, Green News

The Interior Department has given Shell approval to drill oil exploration wells in two leaseholds in the Beaufort Sea, which could lead to the first d...

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Polar Bears Forced To Relocate To Land And Water

LiveScience | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polar Bears Land Water, Polar Bears, Arctic Sea, Polar Bears Ice, Animals, Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ice, Melting Arctic Ice, Green News

As Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears are changing their habitat, shifting from their preferred ice hunting grounds to land and open water, according t...

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