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Column: Obama must address oil spill
As we approach day 55 of the BP oil spill, now the worst environmental disaster in United States history, President Obama is finally developing “tough” language regarding his frustration with the lack of progress in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s tough talk, though, is merely that: talk.
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Sierra Club conference to fight for coal-free campuses
Student activists from all over the Midwest are flocking to Indiana U. at the end of the week to participate in the fight against coal for the first-ever Sierra Student Coalition Coal Conference.
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A&M helps create nation’s largest turbine
Gamesa, a Spanish company that specializes in technologies for alternative energy, has teamed up with Texas A&M U. to create the G10X, soon to be the nation’s largest wind turbine. The turbine will be at West Texas A&M Campus in Canyon, Texas, 15 miles south of Amarillo.
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U. Minnesota professors’ oil spill solution for rivers has fallen on deaf ears
In the summer of 1992, a train traveling across a bridge over the Nemadji River, a tributary of Lake Superior, derailed, sending several of its cars into the river and spilling 34,000 gallons of crude oil extracts into the water. After the spill, U.
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U. Minnesota solar car to race across the country
As a tractor coasted 30 feet from his car in the parking lot, Alan Jacobs fell silent, watching and waiting for something to go wrong — for some damage to happen. The sound of the tractor faded. He relaxed and admitted his fear may have been irrational.
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Spring showers curb grasshopper surge
The Pacific Northwest is facing what could possibly be the most devastating grasshopper infestation in the past 30 years, though it may not be as large as initially projected, according to WSU scientists and other researchers.
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Column: Rigged for safety
On April 20, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the ocean. Although the tragedy that day was the 11 rig workers that were killed and the 17 were injured, a much darker reality was bubbling just below the surface.
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Column: Feds. correct in avoiding immediate BP intervention
So it’s all over the news, almost continuously now for the last 50 or so days; The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is gushing thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day. Many details remain unseen, such as how much oil has been lost.
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Column: Oil Should Have Been Gone Long Ago
In the midst of what has become the worst oil disaster in U.S. history, the April 20 explosion of the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the nation has found itself at a momentous crossroads, as it collectively ponders what is next to come in the future of energy production.