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Top kill stops leak, Obama targets offshore drillingNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 27, 2010 BP's risky bid to plug a Gulf of Mexico well appeared to be working Thursday, but new data showed it was already the worst oil spill in US history with a huge slick fouling the seas. US officials said that, for the first time since an April 20 explosion ripped through a BP-leased rig, the oil leak seemed to have stopped, but the glimmer of good news is too late to avert an environmental catastrophe. Even if the BP's "top kill" maneuver succeeds in capping the leak, millions of gallons of crude a ... read more |
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Berlin (UPI) May 26, 2010 Will Royal Dutch Shell do to the Arctic what BP did to the Gulf of Mexico? That's the question troubling environmental experts across the globe ever since the Dutch minerals giant Shell announced its plan to begin exploratory oil drilling this summer in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, two of the most pristine ecosystems on the planet. The seas near the Arctic National Wildlife Ref ... more  
Washington (AFP) May 25, 2010World energy consumption is expected to jump by nearly 50 percent by 2035, led by developing nations such as China and India, the US government said in a report Tuesday. As consumption increases, Asia will also account for most of energy-linked pollution blamed for global warming, said the US Energy Information Administration, the statistical agency of the US Department of Energy. China ... more  
Washington (UPI) May 26, 2010 Last week, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe, U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis, went to Washington to testify before Congress and to make several public appearances discussing important issues such as Afghanistan and the future of the 61-year-old military alliance. An avid user of Facebook and Twitter, during one of his presentations Stavridis remarked of a "friending" he got from a ... more |
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US senators unveil plan to aid Haiti orphansWashington (AFP) May 26, 2010 Three US senators on Wednesday unveiled a bill to clear away hurdles to citizenship for roughly 1,000 Haitian orphans whose adoptions by US parents were rushed because of a January earthquake. US and Haitian authorities cleared the children to join their adoptive parents after the disaster. But without the complete paperwork necessary to finalize their adoptions, a roadblock has been raised to what would normally be automatic US citizenship upon entry into the United States. "The unprecedented d ... read more |
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