Category Archives: Environment

Oosterhouse lends hand to rebuilding New Orleans

By doris | Published: September 5, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com Cause Celeb highlights a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This week, Carter Oosterhouse, who first appeared in the public eye as the carpenter on “Trading Spaces,” talks about his work with Rebuilding Together . The organization does volunteer house repairs for the elderly, people with disabilities and those [...]

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Thousands evacuating as Hurricane Earl approaches

By doris | Published: September 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com RALEIGH, N.C. — Thousands of people were told to start evacuating a North Carolina island Wednesday morning as Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe the East Coast. The 800 or so year-round residents of Ocracoke Island were told they do not have to go, but Emergency Services Director Lindsey Mooney said officials [...]

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2nd bore hole reaches 33 trapped in Chile mine

By doris | Published: August 24, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com COPIAPO, Chile – Rescuers are lowering capsules containing rehydration tablets, glucose and oxygen down a long hole to 33 miners who surprised the world by staying alive while trapped a half-mile underground for 2 1/2 weeks. Raising hopes further Monday, a second bore hole punched into the chamber where the miners [...]

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Scientists question U.S. estimate on BP oil fallout

By doris | Published: August 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MIAMI — Two new scientific reports Tuesday raised fresh fears about the environmental fallout from the world’s worst offshore oil spill and questioned government assurances that most of the oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico was already gone. In one of the reports, researchers at the University [...]

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Bear gets stuck in car, goes on brief ride

By doris | Published: July 31, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you think you’ve heard it all, follow this tale of a hungry black bear who went for a ride, literally. Douglas County, Colorado, Sheriff’s deputies early Friday got a call about a honking car and a commotion inside. Perhaps it was teenagers or a thief, they thought as [...]

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Third blaze ignites as fire crews gain ground on two more

By doris | Published: July 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Hundreds of firefighters battled a third wildfire in the Los Angeles area early Friday as two more raged within 60 miles of one another. The latest — known as the Crown Fire — has ignited more than 5,000 acres, fire officials said. About 500 firefighters were [...]

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Officials optimistic amid preparations to seal Gulf oil well

By doris | Published: July 29, 2010

Full Story CNN.com (CNN) — One hundred days after an oil well operated by BP ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, and 13 days after crews finished capping the well to contain the gushing crude, the man who is overseeing the federal response is optimistic that steps planned for the coming days will finally, permanently [...]

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Pipeline leak pollutes major Michigan river

By doris | Published: July 28, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MARSHALL TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Crews were working Tuesday to contain and clean up more than 800,000 gallons of oil that poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan, coating birds and fish. Authorities in Battle Creek and Emmett Township warned residents about the strong odor from [...]

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BP tech team: Priority is to ‘see’ oil underwater

By doris | Published: July 25, 2010

Full Story at news.CNET.com Everything from high-tech imaging gear to plastic bags with screens is being tested by a “skunk works” team at BP set up to evaluate cleanup methods in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil company’s High Interest Technology Team, based in Mobile, Ala., is currently sifting through thousand of proposals to fix [...]

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Democrats abandon comprehensive energy bill

By doris | Published: July 23, 2010

Full Story msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Thursday gave up plans to attempt to pass an energy-global warming bill that caps greenhouse gases, abandoning a priority of President Barack Obama. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said no Republican was willing to back a comprehensive energy bill, a development he called “terribly disappointing.” Democrats have [...]

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Scientists discover monster star

By doris | Published: July 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Imagine a star so luminous that it would burn the Earth up if it were anywhere near, a star that outshines the sun as much as the sun outshines the moon. A monster even in the abyss of space. The star is not some scientist’s celestial dream. Astronomers used [...]

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Allen says seep has been detected, demands results from BP tests

By doris | Published: July 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Testing continues and scientists are evaluating the results to decide whether to resume collecting oil from BP’s ruptured deepwater well, the company said Monday. BP’s statement came hours after Thad Allen, the federal government’s oil spill response director, said that testing had revealed a “detected seep a distance from [...]

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‘Super skimmer’ a giant bust in Gulf cleanup

By doris | Published: July 17, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com HOUSTON — A Taiwanese-owned “super skimmer” sent to help clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been a bust, the U.S. Coast Guard said after tests on the ship. “While its stature is impressive, ‘A Whale’ is not ideally suited to the needs of this response,” Coast Guard Rear [...]

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‘Integrity’ testing on Gulf well cap delayed

By doris | Published: July 14, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP has put off crucial “integrity tests” on the new stacking cap on its ruptured Gulf oil well so it can review testing procedures, a review expected to take place through the night and into Wednesday. The oil giant had expected the tests — to check [...]

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BP works to replace containment cap over ruptured well

By doris | Published: July 11, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Why can’t they get it right? This company didn’t do any research on taking a oil pipe leak until it happen.  Just like all the other businesses, wait till the horse gets out of the barn then fix the problem. What about planning ahead just in case something happens. This is just [...]

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Solar-powered plane completes 26-hour flight

By doris | Published: July 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com London, England (CNN) — A solar-powered aircraft, which a team hopes will one day circle the globe, completed a 26-hour test flight in Switzerland at 9 a.m. (3 a.m. ET) Thursday. Solar Impulse took off shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday from an airfield in Payerne, 80 miles northeast of Geneva. The [...]

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Gulf Coast expecting glum Fourth of July

By doris | Published: July 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Fireworks displays have been canceled. White-sand beaches that should be crowded with sunbathers are instead dotted with cleanup workers, booms and sand-sifting equipment. Normally packed hotels are trying to fill rooms ahead of what is a crucial weekend for beach businesses. Across the oil-stained Gulf Coast, it’s [...]

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House passes bill on oil-spill damages; weather slows cleanup

By doris | Published: July 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that removes limits on financial damages that can be awarded for accidents off the U.S. coastline, such as the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers. The bill updates maritime laws that have [...]

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Little spent on spill cleanup technology

By doris | Published: June 27, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts say the [...]

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Tropical storm forms as oil spill battle continues

By doris | Published: June 26, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Tropical Storm Alex — the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season this year — formed in the Caribbean on Saturday as BP continued to battle a massive oil spill in the Gulf. Alex had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was about [...]

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