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Column: BP, Obama should take responsibility for spill
My dad, a business owner for more than 20 years, once told me that “when a customer has a problem or an order is incorrect, the problem is fixed right then and there, no questions asked.” I, along with most Americans, wish this were the case for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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U. Iowa students and professor to travel, research gulf oil spill
Two U. Iowa students and a UI professor will travel to Louisiana today to understand how to remedy marshlands that have been heavily affected by the BP oil spill.
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Local salons donate hair to help with oil cleanup
Victims of the recent Gulf oil spill are receiving assistance from an unlikely source: the heads of Iowa City residents. “I’ve always thought, ‘I wish I could recycle hair,’ ” said Amy Mayfield, the owner of Groovy Katz Salon & Spa. Now she can.
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Two by two
The Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory, a not-for-profit organization founded to support marine research and education, has taken the biblical narrative of Noah and his ark (substituting the floods of water with the hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil gushing from the Deepwater Horizon rig) and ...
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U. Oklahoma researchers hope for grants to study oil spill’s health effects
Oklahoma may benefit from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by way of grants that will aid the studying of the health effects of the oil, which will be a factor for decades to come, two researchers said Friday at the U. Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
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Editorial: Criticism of Obama unfair
Dwarfing previous estimates, crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak is now escaping into the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1.2 million gallons a day — equivalent to the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska happening every 8 to 10 days.
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U. Oklahoma professor sends BP ideas to stop oil leak
The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has led one U. Oklahoma professor to propose ideas on how to stem the flow of oil, which may affect Oklahoma. School of Petroleum Geological Engineering associate professor Samuel O.
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Tourism and hospitality jobs could decrease because of spill
The BP oil spill could cause Florida to lose 195,000 jobs and $10.9 billion, according to Sean Snaith, the director of the Institute of Economic Competitiveness at U. Central Florida.
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Column: Government must refocus priorities
Online retailer Zazzle now sells T-shirts that read, “Plug the hole with BP executives.” That suggestion—however implausible—is significant in that it captures the public’s frustration over the Gulf oil spill.