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ExxonMobil Arkansas oil spill poses health risks for locals
2013-05-14 21:59:26| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
After 210,000 gallons of heavy crude spilled into an Arkansas community, ExxonMobil assured residents that toxic chemicals have remained at safe levels.
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Arkansas Residents Sick From Exxon Oil Spill Are on Their Own
2013-05-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: For more than a month, residents of Mayflower, Ark. have been told not to worry about lingering fumes from a March 29 oil spill that shut down a neighborhood and forced the evacuation of 22 homes. "Overall, air emissions in the community continue to be below levels likely to cause health effects for the general population," Arkansas regulators wrote on a state-operated website [3] that tracks Mayflower's air monitoring data. Despite these reassurances, residents have suffered headaches, nausea...
Arctic Council to sign oil spill deal, talk marine issues and development
2013-05-06 23:28:04| Appliances - Topix.net
Ministers from the eight Arctic Council member nations - Canada, the United States, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, will go deep underground in Kiruna iron mine May 15 as part of the activities planned during their meeting.
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Remember the BP Oil Spill? Malformed Fish Do
2013-05-05 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Youve heard of the canary in the coalmine. Well, a species called the Gulf killifish might be the fish in the oil well. Three years ago, the blowout at BP's Macondo well spewed more than 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Despite attempts to recover it, much of that oil made it into sediments. And new tests show that such oiled sediments are bad for Gulf fish. The research is in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. The Gulf killifish maxes out at about 18 centimeters...
Arkansas Oil Spill Shatters American Dream of Families Still Displaced From New Homes
2013-05-02 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: It has been more than a month now, and Amber Bartlett has had enough of hotels and apartments and trailer homes. Of crowded rooms whose thin walls amplify the bickering of her four children. Of piles of toys and clothes overflowing from drawers and suitcases. Of not knowing, day to day, where her life is headed. She wants to be back in her five-bedroom, three-bathroom home at16 Starlite Road North in Mayflower, Ark. Ryan Senia, the Bartletts' next-door neighbor, is plenty ready to go home, too....
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