Oil Spill Cleanup

Fungi Farmer Grows Mushrooms for Slow Food, Medicine, Bioremediation (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 05.21.2012

Can mushrooms save the world?

Ex-BP Worker Files Whistleblower Suit Over Cleanup

AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 03.26.2012

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former BP employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company, claiming he was fired for airing concerns about the c...

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Yellowstone Oil Spill Carries $135 Million Price Tag For Exxon

AP | By MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 01.04.2012

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BILLINGS, Mont. -- Exxon Mobil said Friday it expects to incur costs of about $135 million from an oil pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone Ri...

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Gulf Cleanup Needed Before Ecosystem Becomes Uninhabitable, Government Report Says

AP | Ramit Plushnick-Masti | Posted 12.05.2011

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From Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press: HOUSTON (AP) -- Coastal states must work together to restore key elements of the Gulf of Mexico that ...

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ConocoPhillips Says Virtually All Of China Spill Cleared

AP | By ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 10.31.2011

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SHANGHAI -- Under fire for oil spills off China's eastern coast, ConocoPhillips says it has finished collecting virtually all oil and drilling mud rel...

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What Is Your Message For BP?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 08.15.2011

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After more than three months of failed attempts to stop the oil leak that has as many as 4.5 million barrels of crude into the Gulf Coast, BP appears ...

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A House Divided: Creatively Funding Oil Spill Coverage

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.17.2011

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Following the news about the Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster can be like reading "A Tale of Two Places." The ocean, the...

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Coast Guard: Time To Scale Back Oil Spill Cleanup

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — The cleanup of oiled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico has reached a point where crews, heavy equipment and thorough scrubbing can ...

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Oil Spill Cleanup 'Succeeded In Magnifying, Not Diminishing The Impacts'

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's hard to get a straight answer on the effects of the Gulf oil spill amid all of the headlines, hearsay, and word of mouth tidbits from a friend of...

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WATCH: Thought It Was Over? Countless Tarballs Wash Up On Gulf Beach

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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BP cleanup crews returned to work Monday after a 10 day break, WKRG reports, and they seem to have their work more than cut out for them. Tarballs hav...

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BP Oil Spill Claim Denials See HUGE Spike

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

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OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — Denied claims for Gulf of Mexico oil spill victims are rising dramatically because of a flood of new filings coming in wi...

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Romeoville Oil Spill Cost: Enbridge Estimates Cleanup At $60 Million

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — The company behind a pipeline leak this month near Chicago estimates it will cost up to $60 million to clean up the area where hundred...

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BP Deep-Cleaning Gulf Beaches As Oil Continues To Wash Ashore

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 05.25.2011

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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — What's typically a beautiful, quiet stretch of beach in the fall now resembles a construction site. Bulldozers and yellow d...

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Oil Spill Cleanup Creating An Economic Boom In Some Communities

AP | By MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others. The worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has spurred something of an economic b...

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Big Oil Touts Billion-Dollar Siphon As Future Solution To Deepwater Spills

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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TAMPA, Fla. — The senior manager of a project to build a more efficient system to contain oil in deep water said Wednesday that once built and t...

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BP Spill Fund Czar Rules That Cleanup Workers' Wages Can't Be Counted Towards Damages To Their Own Businesses

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — The administrator of the fund for victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster says he will waive a requirement that wages earned by...

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Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Winners And Losers

AP | MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others. The worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has spurred something of an economic boo...

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BPeekaboo

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wow, oil spill, you sure are hard to find! We're gonna keep looking, and we're totally looking really hard, but if we don't find you before everyone gets bored of this game, then you're officially it.

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Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup... By Aliens?

Denver Daily | Peter Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Obama's Beach Will Be Clean, But Oil Lies Beneath Sand Nearby

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Florida Panhandle beach where the Obamas are going to spend the weekend to boost tourism in the region is indeed pristine and oil-free. Panama ...

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BP Plays Deadbeat On Nearly 40,000 Oil Spill Claims

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF and HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011

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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — Sheryl Lindsay's wedding planner business is on the brink, crumbling with each cancellation over concerns about oil. Brides...

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Obama Administration, BP Nearing Deal On Oil Spill Fund

Wall Street Journal | MONICA LANGLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON--The Obama administration and BP PLC are close to a deal to use future revenues from the oil giant's Gulf of Mexico operations to guarantee...

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Gulf Oil Spill Investigation: Companies At Fault Will Be In Charge Of Recovering Evidence

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Now that BP appears to have vanquished its ruptured well, authorities are turning their attention to gathering evidence from what ...

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Attention Must Be Paid: The Gulf Oil Spill Is Not Over

Rev. Jennifer Kottler | Posted 05.25.2011

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The minute the spotlight leaves, so will the pressure on BP to make things right for the people and the environment that were destroyed. Attention must be paid.

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Gulf Oil Spill Response Leader: 'How Clean Is Clean?'

McClatchy | Curtis Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

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After more than three months, BP appears finally to have gotten a firm grasp on its runaway Deepwater Horizon well. Now the big question in the Gulf o...

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