HOUSTON – With each new look by scientists, the oil spill just keeps looking worse. New figures for the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico show the amount of oil spewing may have been up to twice as much as previously thought, according to scientists consulting with the federal government. US [...]
Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., center, joined by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, and Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., left, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 8, 2010, to talk about efforts to block the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing climate regulations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP) — In a boost [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama (C) listens during a briefing about the situation along the Gulf Coast following the BP oil spill, at the Coast Guard Venice Center, in Venice, Louisiana, in this White House handout photo taken on May 2, 2010 and released on June 7, 2010. Picture taken May 2, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Pete Souza/The [...]
(Reuters) – Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford has weighed in on the U.S. oil spill crisis, condemning efforts by major energy companies to promote their environmental credentials and use their money to influence "their parrots in Congress." In a five-minute YouTube video, produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Redford says the worst oil [...]
Show your support for Apple’s decision to ditch Fox News below. Apparently, after Glenn Beck called President Obama a “racist” and progressivism “cancer”, some companies took notice and decided enough was enough. 33 companies, including Apple, told Fox they wanted their ads moved from Glenn Beck’s show to another advertising slot last August. This didn’t [...]
Visitors take photographs as others walk past trees displayed along the Champs Elysees near the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris May 23, 2010. The young French farmers' union organized a two-day event called 'Nature Capitale' where they installed the fields and forest of France in the French capital. The union, representing farmers under the [...]
It was hailed as a breakthrough in the fight to cut carbon emissions. In 2007, researchers found that heavy electricity users cut their consumption after being told that they used more energy than their neighbours. Almost a million US households have since received similar feedback and have cut electricity use by an average of 2.5 per [...]
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gets out of an off-road vehicle during his visit to Alexandra Land on Franz Josef Land in the far north of Russia in the Barents Sea April 29, 2010. Credit: Reuters/RIA Novosti/Pool/Alexei Nikolsky (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered that a million abandoned barrels of Soviet-era fuel [...]
A movement inspired by the success of Sweden's pro-internet file sharing Pirate Party in the European elections hopes to make waves in the UK on 6 May. The party is fielding nine candidates in the general election. Launched less than a year ago, Pirate Party UK are fielding nine candidates in the general election. Although [...]
President Obama went to Florida to sell his new human spaceflight policy, not to offer concessions. (NASA) Anyone hoping to hear in his speech at the Kennedy Space Center that he was going to extend the shuttle programme or breathe life back into the Constellation project will have been disappointed. The president stuck to the [...]
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