The federal government's new wariness about offshore drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is dimming what may be the best hope for extending the life of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a crucial artery supplying one-quarter of the West Coast's oil.
"Ultimately, what this spill shows is that offshore oil drilling simply cannot be done safely, " Sen.
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That shoves the ever-spreading Gulf spill firmly out of what we know about traditional tort law and into the strange world of mass torts like asbestos, fen-phen and Vioxx.
Wales regional director Mr Saunders said the increase in people's loyalty to locally produced products such as food was starting to spill over in to what they drink, bringing an opportunity for small, local, brewers.
Ira Flatow will be here with a conversation with Sylvia Earle about what the oil spill means for marine life.
And we turn now to NPR health correspondent Joanne Silberner to learn what this huge spill may mean for people who live in the region.
Neighbours, many of them small children, spill on to the streets to see what is going on.
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Setting aside emotions associated with the recent Deepwater Horizon fatal accident, and the uncertainties associated with the social, political, legal and economic ramifications of the still-gushing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, what is a potentially fair value for BP?
For instance, what do you do when you spill a soda on your keyboard?
The company is still involved in myriad lawsuits regarding what many consider the worst oil spill in the history of the Gulf coast.
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He said the request Exxon Mobil keep records on the spill was the "first step in determining what happened and preserving evidence for any future litigation".
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The president ordered Salazar to conduct a review of the oil spill and report back in 30 days on what precautions, if any, should be required to prevent future accidents.
But relative to the spill response, we find that they are doing what they should be doing.
And what happened after this historically serious oil spill was that the administration -- this administration insisted that before we grant permits for more deepwater drilling that industry demonstrate its capacity to contain a spill like the one we saw in the Gulf.
What crews are dealing with is an oil spill from the explosion that continues to grow in the Gulf of Mexico.
Microarrays have been used extensively to understand what happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
What platform you use will depend how much coin you have to spill for the game.
The letter from Fred Bartlit Jr. to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling said that tests in February on a cement slurry similar to what was used on the Macondo well showed instability -- and that both companies had the data.
Maybe what really needs to be studied is the size of the Prince William Sound to that oil spill compared with the size of the Gulf to this oil spill.
What has been gained through efforts to restore the natural resources and human services injured by the oil spill?
Madrid (CNN) -- Nearly a decade after what many consider Spain's worst environmental disaster, a trial began Tuesday over the massive oil spill in November 2002 that blackened hundreds of miles of coastline along Spain and France.
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