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No deepwater drilling without environmental studies: U.S.U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration announced on Monday it will grant no more permits for deep water oil exploration without requiring studies on their impact on the environment. |
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Nearly 3/4 of BP spill oil gone from GulfAbout three-quarters of the oil spilled following the BP explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has evaporated and the rest is being dispersed, the White House said on Wednesday, as it released a new report suggesting that the environmental damage would be nowhere near as severe as first feared. |
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US scientist says much surface Gulf oil dispersedOil from BP's damaged Gulf of Mexico well is clearing from the sea surface faster than expected, scientists say, 100 days after the disaster began. |
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U.S. Issues New Offshore Oil Drilling BanThe Obama administration issued a new moratorium on deepwater oil drilling on Monday, a move the industry said was unnecessary and would place tens of thousands of jobs at risk. |
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California to ban plastic bagsCalifornia is to become the first US state to ban plastic bags in supermarkets in a move Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a "great victory for the environment." |
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Gulf of Mexico oil cap funnels 6,000 barrelsA special cap funnelling oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill appears to be having some success, a US Coast Guard official has said. |
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Spill Fight Shows ProgressBP PLC had its first breakthrough in the effort to stem the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, using robots to insert one end of a mile-long tube into a shattered oil pipe on the ocean floor. The goal is to siphon up some, if not most, of the crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. |
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China Scientists Find Use For Cigarette ButtsChemical extracts from cigarette butts -- so toxic they kill fish -- can be used to protect steel pipes from rusting, a study in China has found. |
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Gulf oil spill: First leak capped, says BPBP has managed to seal the smallest of the three leaks spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the company says. |
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Russian PM Putin Orders Arctic CleanupRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered that a million abandoned barrels of Soviet-era fuel be removed from the Arctic because they are polluting the environment. |
evironmental news headlines
- Norwegian government boycotts Malaysian timber giant
- 100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAE
- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Russia and China vow to protect Siberian tigers
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands
- New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009
- Smallest frog in Asia discovered in Borneo
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers pace
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Mexico City bans free plastic bags
- No deepwater drilling without environmental studies: U.S.
- A splinter of hope in the fight against illegal logging
- Solar power plant plans move ahead in California
- Cleanup of Superfund Site Completed in Morris County, New Jersey
- New Zealand retracts plans to open up rare frog habitat to mining
- Penalties promised for illegal wood sales
- EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate Science
- Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline, official figures show
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