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Blowout Could Spill 58 Million Gallons in Arctic

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The federal agency overseeing offshore drilling in Alaska says the worst-case scenario for a blowout in the Chukchi Sea lease could result in a spill of more than 58 million gallons of oil into Arctic waters. That's about a quarter of the Deepwater Horizon spill, which put 206 million gallons of oil...

Obama Says He Wants Oil Producers to Boost Output

WASHINGTON -- As the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on politics and pocket books, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to help stabilize prices, warning starkly that lack of relief would harm the global economy. "We are in a lot of...

Workers Recover Body of Trapped Idaho Miner

BOISE, Idaho -- Workers at a northern Idaho silver mine have recovered the body of a miner who was trapped when a tunnel collapsed nine days ago, the mine's operator said Sunday. The body of Larry Marek, 53, was discovered Sunday afternoon, Hecla Mining Co. said in a news release. "Words cannot express the deep sorrow we...

Wash. Considers Annual Flat Fee for Electric Cars

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Drivers of electric cars may have left the gas pump behind, but there's one expense they may not be able to shake: paying to maintain the roads. Ted S. Warren, AP General Services Administration chief Martha Johnson tours an electric vehicle charging station at Bellevue City Hall in Bellevue,...

Greenpeace Occupies Rig in Arctic Drilling Protest

ANKARA, Turkey -- Greenpeace activists climbed aboard an oil rig off Istanbul on Friday in a bid to prevent it from reaching Greenland to begin deep-water drilling in the Arctic, but the vessel continued on its course undeterred. The environmental group said eleven activists, some in rock-climbing gear, used speedboats to...

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Report: Drive for quieter pavement could lead to carpet-like roads

Road construction isn't usually something to get excited about, but what if those resurfacing projects were also making roads quieter?

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Clinton: Arctic Cooperation Essential

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday ventured north of the Arctic Circle and urged international cooperation in a region that could become a new battleground for natural resources.

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Oklahoma Recorded Hottest Summer Ever Last Year, Experts Say

TULSA, Okla. Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about which has the best college football team, whose oil fields produce better crude, even where the state border should run.

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Frances Beinecke: An Oil Industry Witch Hunt in Canada Threatens Us All

Big Oil and the Canadian government are showing their true colors these days, and what an ugly spectacle it is.

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Gas prices are silver lining as economy weakens

-Oil prices plunged as bleak reports on U.S. job growth and manufacturing heightened worries about a slowing global economy.

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06/02/12 Household hazardous waste collection in Carbondale,... Source: CBS - KFVS12 - Cape Girardeau MO Hundreds of people came to Carbondale Saturday to dispose of old paint, light bulbs, batteries and more.
06/02/12 Get Paid to Bet on Rising Energy Prices Source: Morningstar The charts below show how much the average implied volatility for each sector differs from its trailing-three-month and trailing-one-year averages for U.S.-listed equity options (vertical bars, indexed on the right-hand scale), the change in implied volatility from week to week (dark blue line, indexed on the left-hand scale), the implied correlations of small- and large-cap stocks, and the relationship of implied volatility across size and value stocks.
06/02/12 Price slash not sufficient, says CPI Source: E-Pao Manipur State Council, Communist Party of India (MSC/CPI) has contended that the announcement of the Government of India to cut Petrol price by Rs 2 per litre with effect from midnight of June 2 is not sufficient.
06/02/12 Energy from waste Source: Dawn The views of Air Cdre (Rtd) Azfar Khan suggesting production of energy from waste (May 24) qualify for due attention by our energy planners.
06/02/12 The true cost of IKEA: logging old-growth forests Source: FOX - Q13 Fox News - Seattle WA Those labyrinthine IKEA showrooms full of dirt-cheap shelving units have to come from somewhere.

Background on environmental sciences

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, (including but not limited to Ecology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Soil Science, Geology, Atmospheric Science and Geography) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.

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