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Take Action to Reduce Dependence of Fossil Fuels

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Resource Solutions, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Fund, Save Our Gulf, League of Conservation Voters, dosomething.org, Waterkeeper Alliance, Gulf Oil Spill, Smartpower, Gulf Restoration Network, Clean Water Action, Oil Spills, Fossil Fuels, Ixtoc, Reducing Oil Dependence, Green News
Brian Keane

My Gulf Action is a way to show people how their everyday activities, from buying bottled water to adjusting their thermostats by one degree, is inextricably linked to our dependence on fossil fuels.

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Dan Froomkin

Feds Dramatically Increase Oil Spill Estimate, Making BP's The Worst Offshore Oil Accident In History

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Statistics, Figures, Ixtoc, Deepwater Horizon, Estimates, Coast Guard, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore Drilling, Green News

[This story and headline have been updated to reflect the fact that a 1910 oil well blowout in California, on land, is said to have spilled 9 million ...

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Risky Today, Gone Tomorrow? Where Do Our Fears Go When the Oil Stops Leaking?

David Ropeik | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Risk Assessment, Measles, Bp, Ixtoc, Risk Perception, News Media, Availability Heuristic, Vaccines, Offshore Oil Drilling, Polio, Oil Spill, Climate Change, Santa Barbara, Smallpox, Antibiotic Resistances, The Perception Gap, Risk, Healthy Living News
David Ropeik

Sooner or later, the leak will stop and we'll move on. It makes sense to worry most about what threatens you now, but it's a lousy way to assess the risks we really face.

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BP Oil Spill Relief Well Scenarios: What Happens If It Doesn't Stop Gusher?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, BP Oil Spill, Tony Hayward, Relief Wells, Oil Spill, Ixtoc, Blowout Preventer, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Oil Spill, Engineers, Green News

HOUSTON (AP) -- As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more ...

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Apocalypse Again

David Helvarg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whaling, Bp, Louisiana, Oiled Birds, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, New York Times, Timor Sea, Hurricane Katrina, Coast Guard, Ixtoc, Green News
David Helvarg

Offshore oil has moved rapidly into frontier waters, developing "safer drilling technologies" only after disaster strikes. It's time to re-establish the moratorium on new offshore drilling.

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Imagining a World Without Oil

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Technology, Persian Gulf, Bp, Wind Energy, Congress, Ixtoc, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf War Syndrome, Norman Bel Geddes, A Better Place, Scientific American, Gulf States, Environment, Israel, Ocean Wave Energy, Green Energy, Gulf of Mexico, President Bush, Gulf War, Pemex, Impact News
Alexia Parks

We have seen the deadly results and heartbreak in the Gulf of Mexico from every angle and are shocked and moved by what we see. But is it enough to get us to move from inertia into personal action and social change?

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A Requiem for the Gulf

James Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gul of Mexico, Bp, Biloxi, Gulf Coast, Sea Turtles, Hurricanes, BP Oil Spill, Ixtoc, Dispersants, Kemps-Ridleys, Transocean, Green News
James Moore

No one can deny the Gulf has been altered in a manner that will affect it for generations and recovery is not a certainty. No more knowledge is needed to understand this catastrophe. Death expands with the slick.

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BP Could Learn Lessons From 1979 Oil Spill

The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 2010, Ixtoc, Green News

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- It started with a burst of gas through the drilling well. Workers scrambled to close the safety valves but within moments, the pla...

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Weekly Mulch: Oil Spill Could Bring Mass Extinction to the Gulf Coast

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nwf, Bp, Endangered Species, Oil, Oysters, Tpm, Texas, Ixtoc, OYSTERMEN, Oil Spill, Extinction, Ips, Birds, Deepwater Horizon, Fish, Exxon Valdez, Gulf Coast, Louisiana, Dolphins, Shrimp, Alaska, Environment, Shrimpers, Brown Pelicans, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger A cap placed over a severed pipe is siphoning some oil from the broken BP well in the Gulf Coast, the compan...

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Deja vu: The Dirty Aftermath of Ixtoc 1 Oil in the Gulf

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 2010, Ixtoc, Green News
Edward Flattau

The blowout at the Ixtoc 1 oil well more than three years ago provides a sobering conclusion. We still haven't come to grips with the long-term impact of oil spills on the environment.

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