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Feds warned company in Mich. spill about pipeline (AP)

publisher — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:08:48 +0000

AP – U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, according to a document released Saturday.

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Sri Lanka, Hawaii sites get world heritage status (Reuters)

publisher — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:16:09 +0000

Reuters – Sri Lanka’s central highlands and a protected marine area in Hawaii, the only habitats of several endangered plant and animal species, have been added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites, the U.N. body said on Saturday.

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Sri Lanka, Hawaii sites get world heritage status
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Congress to probe Michigan oil spill (Reuters)

publisher — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:38:52 +0000

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Congress to probe Michigan oil spill
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Ecuador inks deal to protect oil field in national park (AFP)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:37:12 +0000

AFP – Ecuador said Saturday it had reached a deal with the United Nations Development Program under which donor countries will compensate Quito for leaving oil reserves in a national park untouched.

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Ecuador inks deal to protect oil field in national park
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Oil spill mars UC Berkeley’s BP-funded research (AP)

publisher — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:00:44 +0000

AP – BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley’s research partnership with the British company, with activists on the famously liberal campus demanding a severing of ties.

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Oil spill mars UC Berkeley’s BP-funded research
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Whole New Mercury Promised by NASA Spacecraft (SPACE.com)

publisher — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:15:24 +0000

SPACE.com – NEW YORK – A NASA spacecraft aimed at Mercury has already returned valuable observations from the planet closest to our sun, despite still being months away from entering orbit around the small, rocky world, the mission’s lead scientist said.

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Whole New Mercury Promised by NASA Spacecraft
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New Space Telescope Mirrors Get Frosty Treatment (SPACE.com)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:15:23 +0000

SPACE.com – NASA is putting the mirrors for its ambitious new James Webb Space Telescope through the ultimate cold test — one that exposes them to temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing to make sure they will work in space.

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New Space Telescope Mirrors Get Frosty Treatment
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar tours rigs, keeps drill ban (AP)

publisher — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:21:35 +0000

AP – The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana’s coast, has a hull larger than a football field and can drill more than 5 miles beneath the ocean floor.

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AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar tours rigs, keeps drill ban
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House approves oil spill bill; stalled in Senate (AP)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:42:33 +0000

AP – The House has approved a bill to boost safety standards for offshore drilling and remove a liability cap for oil spills, but a partisan fight in the Senate will likely delay action on a response to the Gulf oil spill until Congress returns from its summer recess.

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House approves oil spill bill; stalled in Senate
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New BP boss faces up to massive Gulf oil clean-up (AFP)

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:05:52 +0000

AFP – Incoming BP boss Bob Dudley has vowed that the firm would stand by Gulf residents for years to come, as it prepared to scale back oil spill clean-up efforts and move to a new phase.

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New BP boss faces up to massive Gulf oil clean-up
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