The two attorneys helped negotiate a settlement between Chevron and Ecuador in the 1990s that released it from any liability for billions of gallons of oil waste left over from its drilling operations in that country in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Mobile Fluid Recovery then used a massive high-speed drum to spin out all the absorbed oil and waste water from the booms.
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Some background: Donziger has spent more than a decade trying to collect money for Ecuadorean villagers he says have suffered a variety of health problems due to millions of barrels of oil and waste products left behind at drilling sites that Texaco, now part of Chevron, operated until it left the country in 1990.
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Experts say that with further development, it could find applications in cleaning up oil spills and waste water.
If teams find waste oil hard to come by they can load up with fresh cooking oil from supermarkets.
For Interface, the EPD process has encouraged it to reduce energy and material consumption (particularly oil), waste generation and emissions.
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Briante said there are about 100 million gallons of waste restaurant oil generated annually.
We're passing small mounds of waste, oil rigs and miles of brown, patchy wetlands.
Some suspect that waste industrial oil containing dioxin and PCBs was placed into a container meant for recycled frying fats.
Fred M Fehsenfeld had helped build the company since 1977, from when it started collecting waste lubircant oil from mechanics and the like.
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Clean tech is invading the kitchen as well -- behold the Biobot, a tabletop device that converts waste cooking oil into biodiesel.
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This is not to say that Mr Bush is likely to turn White House meetings into open-ended seminars, like Bill Clinton, or that he is going to waste much midnight oil reading the latest conservative tomes.
Many foreign firms, of course, are doing well in China, especially at the two extremes of the value chain: things like luxury goods, fibre-optic cable and big aeroplanes on the one hand, and oil, ores and recyclable waste on the other.
Sending oil elsewhere to be refined will waste massive amounts of fuel for transportation.
The company uses 15 waste-vegetable-oil-powered trucks to deliver 30 to 55 percent of its products on average.
More than 100, 000 pounds of plastic resin will be created by recycling this boom, which means that there will be 100, 000 fewer pounds of waste from the Gulf oil spill.
The company manufactures low-carbon fuels made from the industrial waste of steel mills, oil refineries and chemical manufacturers.
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Rather, as a consequence of injecting water and sand into the shale formation to crack the rocks so gas and oil will flow, massive amounts of waste water comes back to the surface with significant amounts of contaminants as a result of leaching out salt, heavy metals and trace amounts of radioactive materials from the rock formation itself.
The Surat Thani biomass plant in Thailand uses waste trimmings from six palm-oil mills to create more than 70 megawatts of power each year.
The plaintiffs alleged that a Texaco subsidiary dumped an estimated 30 billion gallons of toxic waste into their environment while extracting oil from the Ecuadorean Amazon between 1964 and 1992.
Another is to convert the waste material from corn ethanol plants into oil that can be used to make biodiesel.
You read that right: scientists have created bugs which are able to snack on woodchips or sugar cane and produce waste in the form of easily malleable oil.
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Right now we are chained to dirty and outdated energy sources that contribute to global warming, including oil and coal and to nuclear power, which produces dangerous waste.
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The Mountain Pass mine, which had been bought in 1977 by Unocal, the oil company, began running into all kinds of regulatory problems concerning waste disposal, just as it was losing market share to cheaper Chinese competitors.
Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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The plant cannot use palm oil or oils fit for human consumption and efforts must be made to recover waste heat and enable it to be used by nearby properties.
The use of booms from the Gulf oil spill is just the latest step GM has taken towards meeting its company-wide waste reduction goals.
The oil and gas law, West said, is intended to ensure extraction of the maximum amount of oil and gas from a large area, protect the mineral rights of multiple landowners, and prevent waste of the resource.
The urgency of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico led the Oil Cleanup Challenge to focus on mechanical cleanup technologies rather than absorbents (such as the recycled surfboard waste I wrote about in the current issue of Forbes) or chemical dispersants.
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Patton Boggs joined the lawsuit by Ecuadorean villagers suing Chevron over toxic drilling waste in the Amazonian jungle last year, but has been stymied in efforts to drag the global oil giant to the bargaining table to settle.
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