Environment

Massive fish kill reported in Louisiana
Brett Michael Dykes - Tue Sep 14, 2010
What you see above isnt a rural gravel road: Its a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life - a mishmash of species of fish, crabs, stingray and eel. More»

With Neighbors Unaware, Toxic Spill at a BP Plant
New York Times - Mon Aug 30, 2010
TEXAS CITY, Texas - While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems. More»

Plankton, base of ocean food web, in big decline
Associated Press - Thu Jul 29, 2010
WASHINGTON - Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the worlds oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. More»

Feds: Oil, gas leaking from cap on ruptured well
Associated Press - Sun Jul 18, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Oil and gas are leaking from the cap on BPs ruptured oil well but the cork will stay in place for now, the federal governments point man on the spill said Monday. More»

Tar balls wash up on Atlantic side - Cocoa Beach
WESH-TV - Tue Jul 6, 2010
COCOA BEACH, Florida - Tests are out on more than a dozen tar balls that have been found in a 2- to 3-mile stretch of Cocoa Beach during the past two days, according to Brevard County authorities. More»

Oil seeps into New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain
Associated Press - Mon Jul 5, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans, which managed to escape the oil from the BP spill for more than two months, cant hide any longer. More»

Volunteers ready but left out of spill cleanup
Associated Press - Fri Jul 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico. More»

Boycott Big Oil? Prepare to give up your lifestyle
Associated Press - Fri Jun 11, 2010
WASHINGTON - Has the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico got you so mad youre ready to quit Big Oil? Ready to park the car and take up bike-riding or walking? Well, your bike and your sneakers have petroleum products in them. More»

Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast
CNN - Tue Jun 8, 2010
The morning the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, a BP executive and a Transocean official argued over how to proceed with the drilling, rig survivors told CNNs Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview. More»

Oil confirmed on Pensacola beaches
Associated Press - Thu Jun 3, 2010
For days, CNNs small army of reporters, photographers and producers has been repositioning toward Florida as oil was expected to come ashore in the Sunshine State. More»

Scientists warn of unseen deepwater oil disaster
Associated Press - Sun May 30, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Independent scientists and government officials say theres a disaster we cant see in the Gulf of Mexicos mysterious depths, the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton. More»

BP: What Oil Plumes?
Huffington Post - Sun May 30, 2010
VENICE, Louisiana - Disputing scientists claims of large oil plumes suspended underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLCs chief executive on Sunday said the company has largely narrowed the focus of its cleanup to surface slicks rolling into Louisianas coastal marshes. More»

Scientist locates another vast oil plume in the gulf
Washington Post - Fri May 28, 2010
A day after scientists reported finding a huge "plume" of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction. More»

Couple worries 'firewater' could cause house to explode
KDVR-TV - Mon May 24, 2010
FORT LUPTON, Colorado - They say they are living with a ticking time bomb: Karen Androvich and her husband have so much methane gas in their water their house could explode. More»

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible
Associated Press - Sat May 22, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. More»

Massive underwater oil plumes found off US Gulf Coast
BBC - Sat May 15, 2010
Scientists have found vast underwater plumes of oil, one 10 miles (16km) long and a mile wide, in the Gulf of Mexico following last months rig explosion. More»

Bubble of methane triggered rig blast
Associated Press - Fri May 7, 2010
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BPs internal investigation. More»

Feds let BP avoid filing blowout plan for Gulf rig
Associated Press - Wed May 5, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Petrochemical giant BP didnt file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two years ago to exempt certain projects in the central Gulf region, according to an Associated Press review of official records. More»

Oil rig explodes off Louisiana coast; 11 missing
Associated Press - Tue Apr 20, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing. More»

Vermont Nuclear Plant Lies to Regulators about Radioactive Water
WPTZ-TV - Thu Jan 14, 2010
MONTPELIER, Vermont - Political leaders of every stripe sharply criticized executives at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant Friday over new revelations they have repeatedly misled regulators about key systems at the site. More»

Gov't stands by as mercury taints water
Associated Press - Thu Sep 17, 2009
NEW IDRIA, California - Abandoned mercury mines throughout central Californias rugged coastal mountains are polluting the states major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people. More»

Climate change seen as threat to U.S. security
New York Times - Sat Aug 8, 2009
WASHINGTON - The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say. More»

Climate change could be even worse than feared
AFP - Sat Feb 14, 2009
CHICAGO - It seems the dire warnings about future devastation sparked by global warming have not been dire enough, top climate scientists warned Saturday. More»

Ocean Dead Zones Could Approach Mass Extinction Levels
Discovery News - Sun Jan 25, 2009
The future of Earths oceans is beginning to look a lot like a mass extinction, according to new research. More»

Tangerine growers tell beekeepers to buzz off
Associated Press - Thu Jan 8, 2009
FRESNO, California - Is it trespassing when bees do what bees do in Californias tangerine groves? That is the question being weighed by state agriculture officials caught between beekeepers who prize orange blossom honey and citrus growers who blame the bees for causing otherwise seedless mandarin oranges to develop pips. More»

Rivers high in arsenic, heavy metals after sludge spill
CNN - Mon Dec 29, 2008
KINGSTON, Tennessee - The Environmental Protection Agency has found high levels of arsenic and heavy metals in two rivers in central Tennessee that are near the site of a spill that unleashed more than a billion gallons of coal waste. More»

Tennessee sludge spill estimate grows to 1 billion gallons
CNN - Fri Dec 26, 2008
Estimates for the amount of thick sludge that gushed from a Tennessee coal plant this week have tripled to more than a billion gallons, as cleanup crews try to remove the goop from homes and railroads and halt its oozing into an adjacent river. More»

Report: Endangered species decisions tainted
Associated Press - Mon Dec 15, 2008
WASHINGTON - A high-ranking Interior Department official tainted nearly every decision made on the protection of endangered species over five years, a new inspector general report finds, concluding she exerted improper political interference on many more rulings than previously thought. More»

Leaked Memos tell officials to ignore global-warming impact
McClatchy Newspapers - Mon Oct 13, 2008
WASHINGTON - New legal memos by top Bush administration officials say that the Endangered Species Act cant be used to protect animals and their habitats from climate change by regulating specific sources of greenhouse gas emissions, the cause of global warming. More»

EPA won't limit toxic pollutant in drinking water
Associated Press - Mon Sep 22, 2008
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided theres no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country. More»

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