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Delinquent Polluters Must Pay New Jersey Superfund Cleanup Costs

ecofactory — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:03:09 +0000

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 26, 2010 (ENS) - Champion Chemical Company, Imperial Oil Company Inc. and Imperial's two former officers have agreed to pay at least $1.4 million to cover cleanup costs at...

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Hoosier Energy Will Spend Up to $300 Million for Cleaner Air

ecofactory — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:01:37 +0000

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, July 27, 2010 (ENS) - Under a legal settlement with the federal government filed Friday, Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative Inc., an Indiana electric generation and...

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Conservationists Renew Legal Challenge to Jaguar Capture Permit

ecofactory — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:59:31 +0000

TUCSON, Arizona, July 27, 2010 (ENS) - The Center for Biological Diversity Monday filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for issuing a permit to the Arizona Game...

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BP's Tony Hayward Gets His Life Back

ecofactory — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:57:16 +0000

LONDON, UK, July 27, 2010 (ENS) - BP today announced that, by mutual agreement with the BP board, Tony Hayward will step down as group chief executive as of October 1, 2010. He will be succeeded by...

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Gulf Oil Spill Response Back on Track

ecofactory — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:22:16 +0000

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 26, 2010 (ENS) - Oil spill response vessels and drilling rigs are returning to their places above BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico today after they were...

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Oil Companies Plan $1 Billion Rapid Response System for Spills

ecofactory — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:47:18 +0000

WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2010 (ENS) - Four of the world's largest oil companies have committed $1 billion to build and operate a subsea containment assembly that will prevent oil from escaping into...

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NOAA Reopens One-Third of Gulf Area Closed to Fishing

ecofactory — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:46:01 +0000

WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2010 (ENS) - Fish caught in a wide area of the gulf near Florida are safe to eat, said federal officials Thursday as they allowed commercial and recreational fishing boats...

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Tropical Storm Bonnie Disrupts Gulf Oil Spill Response

ecofactory — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:09:17 +0000

MOBILE, Alabama, July 22, 2010 (ENS) - A tropical depression near the Bahamas has strengthened and become Tropical Storm Bonnie and is now heading west-northwest across the Gulf of Mexico,...

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Oil Spill Response Interrupted by Tropical Storm Threat

ecofactory — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:19:51 +0000

MOBILE, Alabama, July 22, 2010 (ENS) - A storm called Tropical Depression Three is forming in the Caribbean near the Bahamas and forecasters predict it will blow across the Gulf of Mexico this...

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Court Stops Oil and Gas Drilling in Alaska's Lease Sale 193

ecofactory — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:16:11 +0000

JUNEAU, Alaska, July 21, 2010 (ENS) - A federal court today halted all activities under an oil and gas lease sale in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's north coast pending further environmental review by...

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