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June 17, 2010Sustainability
Congress Hammers BP CEO for Dodging Deepwater Spill Responsibility: BP CEO Tony Hayward sat alone before the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Thursday to answer for his company's questionable decision to continue drilling this spring at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil well despite safety concerns and that decision's catastrophic consequences...; Larry Greenemeier

December 22, 2014Sustainability
The Year in Energy and Environment: It Wasn't All Apocalyptic: ‘Tis the season for year end lists. The problem is: news keeps happening. One of the members of this list only happened just last week.; David Biello

November 1, 2019Climate
The F-Word Finally Enters Climate Politics: For the first time, presidential candidates are no longer scared to say “fossil fuels” (okay, that’s two f-words); Geoffrey Supran and Ploy Achakulwisut | Opinion

July 1, 2005
Panoramas of the Seafloor: Modern sonar techniques map the continental margins of the U.S. and reveal the richly varied scenery usually hidden underwater.; Lincoln F. Pratson and William F. Haxby

August 25, 2017Weather
Hurricane Harvey Strengthens, Threatens U.S. with Most Powerful Storm in 12 Years: Storm heads for Texas cities of Corpus Christi and Houston, home to major oil refineries; Brendan O'Brien and Reuters

December 1, 2016Environment
Trump’s First 100 Days: Environmental Policy and Public Lands: The Keystone XL pipeline and new coal leases could be green-lighted quickly, but other efforts will take time; Cally Carswell

September 4, 2014
BP Found"Grossly Negligent" in 2010 Spill: BP Plc <BP.L> was "grossly negligent" for its role in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico four years ago, a U.S. district judge said on Thursday in a ruling that could add billions of dollars in fines to the more than $42 billion in charges taken so far for the worst offshore disaster in U.S...

November 7, 2012Sustainability
State Clean Energy and Environmental Campaigns See Wins and Losses: Efforts to increase alternative energy or combat climate change, among other issues, came down to local concerns; Christa Marshall and ClimateWire

October 14, 2011Sustainability
China Begins to Tap Shale Gas with American Help: Fracking shale to release natural gas is among the largest energy prospects for China; Joel Kirkland and ClimateWire

December 9, 2010The Sciences
More polar bear news than you can shake a rapidly melting icicle at: Polar bears ( Ursus maritimus ) got a long-awaited boost on November 23 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) finally designated more than 485,000 square kilometers of "critical habitat" for the species, which is listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)...; John Platt

April 12, 2012Sustainability
Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: The Robot Submarine: Note: Before we join the new group of students training for the 2012 Micronesia Expedition we will catch up with several of the USC scientific divers and see what they have been working on over the past year...; Jim Haw

October 22, 2010Sustainability
Noise Reduces Ocean Habitat for Whales [Video]: By visualizing the acoustic habitat, scientists are discovering that the ocean is becoming a noisier place; Elizabeth Grossman

July 30, 2013
Thai Oil Spill Having "Extreme" Impact on Tourism: An oil spill that has blackened beaches at a Thai holiday island was having an extreme impact on tourism and could spread to the coast of the mainland and affect the fishing industry, officials and an environmental group said on Tuesday...

August 17, 2009
Can Oil Companies Accurately Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions?: Petroleum producers argue that March 2011 is too soon to report emissions from production wells, for example; Ben Geman

June 15, 1998
The Last Sturgeon: Can the economic forces driving the ancient source of caviar to extinction be stopped? It may already be too late; Kristin Leutwyler

November 12, 2010
Unraveling Cement's Molecular Mysteries Could Be Key to Deepwater Investigation: Despite a lack of scientific knowledge of how it works, cement has been used for everything from building ancient Rome's Pantheon to securing oil wells kilometers beneath the ocean's surface...; Larry Greenemeier

May 1, 1994Sustainability
Directional Drilling: New techniques enable crews to drill around natural or man-made obstructions for oil and gas. These same methods are used to sample underground pollutants and bury service lines; George A. Cooper; May 1994; 10.1038/scientificamerican0594-82

January 22, 2015The Sciences
Sorbent Science: Cleaning Oil Spills: An environmental engineering exercise from Science Buddies; Science Buddies

June 1, 1997
Panoramas of the Seafloor: Modern sonar techniques map the continental margins of the U.S. and reveal the richly varied scenery usually hidden underwater; Lincoln F. Pratson and William F. Haxby

April 1, 2009Sustainability
Squeezing More Oil Out of the Ground: Amid warnings of a possible peak for oil production, new technologies offer options to extract every last possible drop; Leonardo Maugeri

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