GE proposes limiting downstream PCB contamination during Hudson River dredging Star Tribune | ALBANY, N.Y. - General Electric Co. on Monday proposed halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup. | GE made the proposal as the company and the federal Environmental Protection Agenc...
Global Warming: Gore Vs. Gunter National Post By Lorne Gunter, National PostMarch 8, 2010 5:10 AM A ship enters a fjord behind the town of Ilulissat in Greenland. | Photograph by: Michael Kappeler, Reuters, National Post | If you are driving a car (say an unrepaired Toyota) and it suddenly surges up to very high speeds, then runs out...
Demand for Lithium Is Poised to Take Off The New York Times | For many years, few metals drew bigger yawns from mining executives than lithium, a lightweight element long associated mostly with mood-stabilizing drugs. Noah Friedman-Rudovsky/Bloomberg | An engineer for the Bolivian government’s pilot plant f...
Shiver me timbers Mumbai Mirror | For centuries, seafarers were plagued by wood-eating gribble that destroyed their ships, and these creatures continue to wreak damage on wooden piers and docks in coastal areas. | But new research by scientists at the BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Ce...
Storage tank at Capital University blamed for Alum Creek oil spill The Columbus Dispatch | An underground storage tank at Capital University that had malfunctioned was the source of an oil spill that fouled Alum Creek on Valentine's Day, according to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. | At least 200 gallons of fuel oil spilled int...
CO emissions from the Detroit River The Examiner | A common sight along the Detroit River, cargo ships emit huge amounts of CO2 without notice. NY | Once labeled as the greatest commercial artery on Earth in the early twentieth c...
Skincare, is More than Just Good Genes Khaleej Times And Stephanie Rivers talks to the experts to tell you the do's and the don'ts for getting that naturally healthy glow | Good skin is more than just a perfect, poreless facade, or b...
Shell aims for ‘New Nigeria’ at Qatar’s $19bn plant Business Day Online ...to bolster output | Anglo Dutch oil giant Shell is aiming to make up for its mounting losses in Nigeria via a $19 billion gas to liquids plant in the sandy desert of Qatar in th...
Coast Guard begins hearing on Texas oil spill The Miami Herald | PORT ARTHUR, Texas -- The captain of an 800-foot tanker that collided with a tugboat in a Gulf of Mexico waterway, causing the worst Texas oil spill in 15 years, was apparently unaware until moments before the crash that his ship was too far off co...
Coast Guard begins hearing on Texas oil spill Breitbart PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) - Audio recordings apparently show that the pilots of a tugboat and tanker that collided in a Gulf of Mexico waterway in Texas were aware their vessels were close but unaware they were about to collide. | The Jan. 23 collision...
Yukos takes Russia to human rights court in Strasbourg The Guardian | Defunct oil company owned by jailed oligarch Mikhail Khordokovsksy claiming £65bn in compensation over bankruptcy | Judges arrive at the start of the Yukos versus Russia case at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. Photograph: Reuters | The European court of in Strasbourg is today hearing the biggest case in its history with manager...
Grain prices fall ahead of key crop report The Examiner Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - Grain prices fell Tuesday, a day before a Department of Agriculture report that will revise production estimates for both U.S. and foreign farmers. | "It's pre-crop report jitters," said Richard Feltes, senior vice president and director of commodity research at MF Global. | Feltes predicted the USDA will say that mo...
