It has now been two weeks since the deep water oil right exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and for two weeks, it has been leaking some 200,000 gallons of oil into the ocean each day. That is a lot of oil, nearly 3,000,000 gallons by my count, and BP has yet to stop...
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I am no expert on oil spills, but it is beginning to look like the oil that is leaking from the well on the ocean floor, off the coast of Louisiana, has all the makings of the largest oil spill in U.S. history. It even threatens to eclipse the oil spill off the Alaskan...
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For those of you who are familiar this story, (you should be if you live in the Oklahoma/Arkansas border area) let me ask this question. Does it seem that the lawsuit that seeks monetary damages for pollution to the Illinois River watershed has been going on forever? Stop and think about it for a...
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Do you know of anyone who doesn't believe in protecting the environment? If you can find someone who really believes it is okay to treat the Earth any old way, you will have found someone who is very lacking in their knowledge about the world in which we live. When I was a young...
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The news from the weekend and then on Monday has been dominated by the announcement by the Obama administration that there would be no more chances for General Motors and Chrysler. I have already raised the question and asked why the Detroit automakers didn’t deserve the same bailouts that have been extended to companies...
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The words in the title of this post sound like a bit of a stretch, don’t they? I mean, how can anyone believe that Barack Obama is really out to kill the coal industry? After all, he has tried his best to make sure the people of America and especially those in West Virginia,...
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