Weekly Mulch: Greening the Royal Wedding is the Least of Our Worries
The biggest news for the environment this week might just be that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took pains to add a couple of green touches to this morning’s Royal Wedding. The flowers were seasonal, the food locally grown, and the emissions offset.
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Weekly Mulch: Green Daydreams? A Clean Gulf, Energy Efficiency, and More
Yesterday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) took Obama administration officials to task for encouraging Americans to believe that the majority of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico had dispersed.
“People want to believe that everything is OK and I think this report and the way it is being discussed is giving many people a false sense [...]
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President Obama and The Oil Spill…
Tomorrow evening, President Obama is making an address to the American people regarding the mess in The Gulf.
Like many events in life – this one was not of his doing, nor is it something that he can have much control over. Yet for now – he is our leader, President of The United States. It [...]
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Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Spill Stalls Climate Bill
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
“There’s a dead dolphin on this beach,” Mother Jones‘ Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It’s one snapshot of the harm visited on the Gulf Coast by the BP oil spill. Back in Washington, the Senate climate bill, which would put the country on a path to cleaner [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Oil Spill Could Bring Mass Extinction to the Gulf Coast
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
A cap placed over a severed pipe is siphoning some oil from the broken BP well in the Gulf Coast, the company said today. The company’s CEO said this morning on CBS that it was possible that this fix could capture up to 90% of the oil, but that it will [...]
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Oil Spill in perspective…
The Gulf Spill has been going and going and going…it is very sad not doubt.
My question is how does the spill stack up to what goes on each and every day?
The spill in the Gulf is spewing some 5,000 to 70,000 barrels of oil per day. (The estimates are a bit all over the board [...]
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Heal the Bay’s Mark Gold on the BP oil spill
I recently had the privilege to speak with the President of Heal the Bay, Mark Gold. It was a frank discussion about the Gulf oil spill and the state of water conservation initiatives.
Mark has been working on water pollution for over 20 years. I wanted to find out how someone with such deep knowledge felt [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Obama’s Responsibility for the BP Oil Spill
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
President Barack Obama is in Louisiana today, and BP is saying it will know in 48 hours if its attempt to “top kill” the leaking oil well in the Gulf Coast by pouring mud and cement over it has worked.
If the scramble to stop the leak has ended, the slog [...]
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