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"10 Reasons To Still Be Pissed Off About the BP Disaster"

Today is the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout that caused a catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. The consequences to people, natural resources, and industries are still happening, and just beginning to be understood. BP is making profits, paying dividends, and having protestors from the Gulf hustled out of its shareholder meetings by police. The tarballs? Security guards patrolling Louisiana public beaches still prevent journalists from filming them. The $20 billion in compensation set aside by BP has not prevented many people from feeling that their lives have been ruined by the event. Elected officials have resumed the chant: "Drill, baby, drill." Now Freedom-of-Information requests have brought to light documentation that the UK government refused to go to war in Iraq without guarantees that BP and other British firms would get a share of the conquered nation's oil.

Source: Mother Jones, 04/20/2011

"BP Blowout One Year Later: Drilling Safety an Explosive Issue"

"Hundreds of activists protesting fossil fuels marched to the Department of the Interior's headquarters [Monday] and swarmed inside, calling for the abolition of offshore oil drilling, coal mining and tar sands extraction."

Source: ENS, 04/19/2011

"Is Sugar Toxic?"

If Robert Lustig is right, in a lecture that has gone viral on YouTube, "then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them."

Source: NY Times, 04/19/2011

"Repelling Bugs With The Essence Of Grapefruit"

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control are trying to develop a new product that both repels and kills insects. Called nootkatone, it is found in Alaska yellow cedar trees and citrus fruit. Consumers may prefer it to DEET, and that may mean a chance to lower the chances of insect-borne disease.

Source: NPR, 04/19/2011

At Supreme Court "States Seek Greenhouse-Gas Curbs"

"A battle over whether states can use nuisance laws to curb greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants will come to the Supreme Court Tuesday in a case that puts a twist on the debate over climate policy."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 04/19/2011

"Congress Pulls Wolves Off Endangered Species List"

"Congress [April 14] approved a budget bill that includes a rider removing wolves in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Utah from the federal endangered species list and sets the stage for near-term delisting in Wyoming. The measure returns control of wolf management to the states."

Source: ENS, 04/19/2011

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"10 Reasons To Still Be Pissed Off About the BP Disaster"

"BP Blowout One Year Later: Drilling Safety an Explosive Issue"

"Is Sugar Toxic?"

"Repelling Bugs With The Essence Of Grapefruit"

At Supreme Court "States Seek Greenhouse-Gas Curbs"

"Congress Pulls Wolves Off Endangered Species List"

"EPA Considers Ban on Dangerous Chemicals in Spray Foam Insulation"

"Big Break for Big Oil, Larger Burden for Taxpayers"

"Exclusive: U.S. Nuclear Regulator a Policeman Or Salesman?"

"Trauma And Controversy: Chernobyl's Health Legacy"

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