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Compensation battle rages four years after BP's U.S. oil spill
2014-04-18 12:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over. Jules Melancon, the last remaining oyster fisherman on an island dotted with colorful houses on stilts, says he has not found a single oyster alive in his leases in the area since the leak and relies on an onshore oyster nursery to make a living. He and others in the southern U.S. state say compensation...
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As La. Coast Recedes, Battle Rages Over Who Should Pay
2014-04-16 09:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Louisiana's coast is disappearing at the rate of about a football field an hour. Since the 1930s, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed up an area the size of Delaware. You can see the water encroaching in Delacroix in St. Bernard Parish, less than an hour southeast of New Orleans. Here, a narrow crescent of land known locally as the "end of the world" is where the road abruptly comes to a dead end; in the distance, you see the tops of now-submerged trees. "It's hard to imagine if the coast continues...
Wild Winter Weather Rages But Not in Sochi
2014-02-14 14:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Once again, the eastern United States has been pummeled by a winter storm that's dumped massive amounts of snow on sidewalks and roadways, many of which are still icy from the last snowstorm. Government offices in Washington, D.C., were shuttered, as the region was blanketed by almost a foot (30 centimeters) of snow. Boston is enduring heavy snow combined with wind gusts of up to 40 mph (64 km/h), and ice-covered roadways throughout the Carolinas were littered with abandoned cars. Revelers...
Debate rages over whether Eugene's drinking source - McKenzie River - has mercury
2014-02-01 23:12:10| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Register-Guard newspaper reports some officials say the state's fish sampling process was flawed.
Debate rages over exporting America's oil
2014-01-08 03:10:22| Energy - Topix.net
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski argued that the ban, put in place after the 1970s Arab oil embargo, doesn't makes sense given the current U.S. oil production boom.
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