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New course offering will address current oil spill crisis
Oil and water don’t mix. That is, unless they are coming together in a class dubbed “Oil and Water: The Gulf Oil Spill of 2010,” a joint venture of U. Minnesota’s College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences and College of Liberal Arts.
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Aggies study effects of spill
John Kessler, professor of oceanography at Texas A&M U., shed new light on the effect of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and captured the attention of international news media with his research on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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USF to receive funds from BP grant
To help fund the ongoing research initiatives on the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has agreed to give $25 million in grants to universities in Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi — with $10 million going to U. South Florida’s Florida Institute of Oceanography.
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Column: Boycott BP? Not so much
I love a good boycott. There are few things more satisfying than fully expressing yourself in the only way that most people — who actually have power in America — care about; that is to say, we stop buying their products.
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Murray To Draw Upon Management Skills in BP Oil Spill Commission
In her recent appointment to a national commission on the BP oil spill, Harvard U. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Cherry A. Murray will draw upon decades of experience in managing engineers and scientists—an asset that colleagues say will prove fundamental to her government charge.
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Column: Washington’s hands are not clean from BP spill
Last Thursday, a subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives opened what many hailed as "landmark" congressional testimony into the exact actions of BP involving the Gulf oil spill.
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Washington U. professor dumped from oil spill cleanup
Everything counts once it’s on the internet. Washington U. physics professor Jonathan I. Katz was asked by the Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu to join a team of scientists to help clean up the BP oil spill.
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Column: Obama on the oil spill
In his Presidential address last week, Barack Obama announced that he will be creating a new governmental organization to be watchdogs over the oil industry.
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Column: Oil corruption should be checked
Crude oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at a consistently alarming and under-inflated rate; one of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history which exacerbates the nation and the world.