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Vegas tries to kick its water addiction

By doris | Published: September 4, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Las Vegas (CNN) — At first glance, it’s pretty easy to say Las Vegas has an unhealthy water fetish. There’s the 22-million-gallon Bellagio fountain, which rockets dancing cylinders of well water 500 feet into the air to the tune of “God Bless the USA.” There’s the liquid volcano at The Mirage, [...]

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8 secrets about Disneyland

By doris | Published: July 2, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma’s ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom. 1. There are dead bodies in the Haunted Mansion The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is one of the scariest places in the park, but not for the reasons you’d [...]

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What’s ailing America’s national parks?

By doris | Published: June 28, 2011

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com As president of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Tom Kiernan is, not surprisingly, a fan of Ken Burns’ documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” but he’d like to add an addendum. “The national parks are America’s best idea,” he said, “but they’re not in the best of health.” In [...]

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US spy spending revealed for first time, tops $80 billion

By doris | Published: October 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The United States spent $80 billion on spy activities in 2010, the first time the government has officially announced the total tab for intelligence spending. The amount included $53.1 billion on non-military intelligence programs, a 6 percent boost from the previous year, according to a statement released Thursday [...]

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Eggs from suspect farms will be processed, sold

By doris | Published: August 26, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com Eggs from the two Iowa farms at the heart of a salmonella scare could still make it into your shopping basket — but not in the way you’d think. The producers responsible for a recall of some 550 million potentially tainted eggs have found another outlet for the inventory that just [...]

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Gulf oil rig’s owner had safety issue at 3 other wells

By doris | Published: August 5, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The company that owned the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April had widespread safety concerns about several of its other rigs in the gulf, and a month before the disaster it commissioned a broad review of the safety culture of the company’s North American operations, according [...]

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BP resumes work on relief well

By doris | Published: July 26, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW ORLEANS — Ships were getting back in place Sunday at the Gulf of Mexico site of BP’s leaky oil well as crews restarted work on plugging the gusher before another big storm stops work again. Piping for the main relief well being drilled was being reinstalled and should be ready [...]

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No oil leaking as BP conducts critical pressure tests in Gulf oil well

By doris | Published: July 16, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — A highly anticipated test designed to measure pressure within BP’s ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well finally began Thursday, and for the first time in nearly three months, oil stopped flowing into the Gulf. The move was lauded by a variety of officials as a positive [...]

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New cap on ruptured oil well faces key tests

By doris | Published: July 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP plans to begin testing the new cap on its ruptured deepwater well Tuesday — a move that officials hope will be a step on the way to stopping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. “This test involves closing one or more of the [...]

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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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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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A floating city springs up to contain gulf oil spill

By doris | Published: June 28, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com Dead ahead through the helicopter windshield, it appears like a mirage at the hazy horizon: a city in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. A city on fire. Just a few months ago, the site of the disaster, 42 miles from the last marsh grass at the very tip of [...]

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Robots succeed, cut well pipe; oil gushes into Gulf

By doris | Published: June 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — A new flow of oil emerged from BP’s damaged undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday evening after a remote-controlled submarine successfully cut into the well’s riser pipe. BP used robots in its latest attempt to curtail the flow of crude from the largest spill in U.S. [...]

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Oil taking toll on Gulf Coast property owners

By doris | Published: May 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com As floating globs of oil begin to come ashore on the barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, real estate agents and homeowners along the Gulf Coast are bracing for a potential and perhaps devastating drop in property values. Already some owners are seeing cancellations stemming from the uncertainty around the [...]

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New leak discovered as Coast Guard mulls options to clean oil spill

By doris | Published: April 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The estimated amount of oil leaking from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico has increased to as much as 5,000 barrels a day — five times more than what was originally believed, a Coast Guard official said late Wednesday. Rear Adm. Mary Landry told reporters that the [...]

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4 missing West Virginia miners found dead

By doris | Published: April 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Naoma, West Virginia (CNN) — Days of rescue efforts came to a grim end after crews found the bodies of four miners who had been missing since an explosion almost a week ago in a West Virginia mine, authorities said early Saturday. “We did not receive the miracle we prayed for,” [...]

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25 killed in West Virginia mine blast

By doris | Published: April 6, 2010

Full Story at 25 dead in W. Va. coal mine blast – Life- msnbc.com MONTCOAL, W.Va. – Rescue teams planned to search again for four workers missing in a coal mine where a massive explosion killed 25 in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades, though officials said Tuesday that the chances [...]

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Obama to allow oil drilling off Virginia

By doris | Published: March 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia’s shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska. Obama’s plan offers few concessions to environmentalists, who have [...]

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G.M. and Ford Channel Toyota to Beat Toyota

By doris | Published: March 7, 2010

Full Story at NYTimes.com JOSH SMITH is a large man with a shaved head, a goatee and a look in his eyes that can only be described as stoked. And he is never more stoked than when he talks about his job, one of the strangest at the General Motors Proving Grounds, here in this [...]

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ExxonMobil finalizes PNG LNG sales to TEPCO

By doris | Published: December 7, 2009

Full Story at Reuters.com TEPCO, Japan’s largest utility, has entered a binding agreement with project partners for the purchase of 1.8 million tonnes per year (mtpy) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a period of 20 years, Exxon said in a statement. The contracted volume includes the plant’s recently expanded output of 0.3 mtpy, which [...]

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