Cleanup

A Tsunami of Trash Reaches Our Shores Every Year

Vikki N. Spruill | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Japan Tsunami, Japan Tsunami Trash, Ocean Trash Cleanup, Cleanup, Noaa, Japan Tsunami 2011, Green News

You name it, and our volunteers have found it on the beach: toilet seats, washing machines, couches and, of course, the proverbial kitchen sink. This year someone even found a floating 100-pound safe. But no matter what that safe contained, I can tell you this trash is no treasure.

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Oil Spill Website To Be Controlled By U.S., Not BP

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Oil Spill, Web Site, deepwaterhorizonresponse.com, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Dhs, Cleanup, Green News

HOUSTON — The US government is expected to take over control of the central information website on the Gulf oil spill response that has been run...

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Carl Henric-Svanberg Says BP Cares About 'Small People'

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Payments, Small People, Claims, Fishing Industry, Oil Spill, Carl Henrik Svanberg, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Oil Spill, Bp Chairman, Cleanup, Gulf Coast, Little People, Wildlife, Green News

VENICE, La. — The "small people" of the Gulf Coast have a humongous message for oil giant BP: They're tired of the company's big-time executives...

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Oil Spill Forces Animals To Flee To Shallow Water Off Coast, Scientists Warn Of 'Mass Die-Off'

AP | JAY REEVES, JOHN FLESHER and TAMARA LUSH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Death Toll, Sea Turtles, Dolphins, Oxygen, Dead Zone, Birds, Wildflife, Habitat, Gulf Oil Spill, Cleanup, Alabama, Marshes, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oil Spill, Fish, Oil, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Green News

GULF SHORES, Ala. — Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small ...

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Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup... By Aliens?

Denver Daily | Peter Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aliens, Extraterrestrials, Jeff Peckman, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Cleanup, Cleanup, Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission, Denver News

Local alien expert Jeff Peckman would like to beam assistance to the Gulf. He says the answer to the Gulf oil disaster may lie in sophisticated ext...

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Energy Fuels Has Money For New Uranium Mill, But Not A Cleanup

Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Mining, San Miguel, Uranium Mill, Montrose, Pinon Ridge Mill, Energy-Fuels-Inc, Paradox Valley, Uranium Mine, Environmental Disaster, Cleanup, Denver News

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Gulf Cleanup Workers and 9/11 Responders

Anthony DePalma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11 First Responders, Cleanup, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Ground Zero, Judge Alvin Hellerstein, Impact News

The Gulf Coast's endangered wetlands are a long way from Manhattan, but a courtroom here on Pearl Street can provide invaluable lessons for handling the disaster that could save endless amounts of time, money, and anguish.

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Nashville Floodwaters Recede, Crews Search For Bodies

AP | KRISTIN HALL and SHEILA BURKE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nashville Flood, Damage, Recovery, Response, Downtown Nashville, Search Crews, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville Flooding, Cleanup, Cumberland River, Home News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Cumberland River finally began receding Tuesday, exposing mud-caked homes and submerged cars as officials searched door t...

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Erin Brockovich Oil Spill Visit Planned: Fishermen Sickened By Dispersant Contact Advocate

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Law, Oil Dispersant, Environmental Health, Erin Brockovitch, Gulf Oil Spill, Cleanup, Toxic Chemicals, Louisiana, Oil Spill, Dispersants, Chemical Dispersants, Fisherman, Sick, Erin Brockovich, Green News

HOUMA, La. — Environmental and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich will be in southern Louisiana to speak to people who say they've been sickened ...

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U.S. Considering Criminal Case Against BP

LA Times | Richard A. Serrano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, White House, Doj, Size, Estimates, British Petroleum, Feds, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Well, Lawsuit, Cleanup, Louisiana, Oil Spill, Criminal Charges, Leak, Tony West, Gulf of Mexico, Green News

A team of top federal prosecutors and investigators has taken the first steps toward a formal criminal investigation into oil giant BP's actions befor...

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BP Oil Spill Protest At Gas Station In New York City (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Response, New York, Oil Spill, New York City, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Protests, Deepwater Horizon, Gas Stations, Soho, Cleanup, Wildlife, Video, New York News

Protesters in New York City descended on a BP gas station in SoHo on Friday and demanded a boycott of the oil company. The group condemned BP for its...

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Gowanus Canal Gets EPA Superfund Status, Despite Bloomberg's Objections

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Contamination, Superfund, Mayor Bloomberg, Water Pollution, Brooklyn, Michael Bloomberg, Epa, Cleanup, New York City, New York, Gowanus Canal, New York News

NEW YORK — For at least 120 years, city officials have been promising to do something about the oily, smelly mess that is the Gowanus Canal. No...

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World Bank Loans India $1 Billion To Clean Ganges River Pollution

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ganges River, Ganges Clean Up, World Bank, India, Cleanup, Ganges, Ganges Pollution, Pollution, World News

NEW DELHI — The World Bank has agreed to loan India $1 billion to help clean the Ganges river, sacred to hundred of millions of Hindus and also ...

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Dow Chemical Ordered To Clean Up Saginaw

Chicago Tribune | Michael Hawthorne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Dioxin, Pollution, Cleanup, Dow Chemical, Green News

Federal officials Wednesday ordered Dow Chemical to clean up high levels of dioxin recently discovered in homes and yards in a Saginaw, Mich., neighbo...

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