AP – Tyson Foods Inc. spent $611,937 in the first quarter to lobby the government on ethanol policy, diesel tax credits and other issues, according to a recent disclosure report.

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BP gulf oil spill the cost of our dependency on oil, while oil flows into the gulf faster than our cars, one has to wonder. As of April 28th, 2010 Ian R McDonald, an oceanography professor at Florida State University estimates that 8 to 9 million gallons of oil had already spilled from his examinations of Coast Guard charts and satellite images. It is also estimated that 200,000 gallons are being leaked daily according to a US Coast Guard spokesman.

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New fears are arising that it will continue to grow, and in the last couple of days the slick on the water has tripled in size, which may indicate increasing leakage from the well. No one is sure when or how it will be stopped at this point either. At last reports the oil slick is the size of Puerto Rico, which is roughly 3,500 square miles, or the size of Connecticut. The oil is now beginning to wash ashore in several areas. Continue reading “BP Gulf Oil Spill The Cost of Our Dependency on Oil” »

          

AFP – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged Monday to make Indonesia the world’s biggest user of clean, renewable geothermal energy, and urged private investors to back him.

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AFP – British oil giant BP used robotic underwater vehicles Sunday to try to cap a leaking well and prevent a growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico from developing into an environmental disaster.

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AP – A day after bipartisan support for an energy and climate change bill appeared to crumble, a Senate sponsor said Sunday he was optimistic the coalition would regroup and lawmakers would consider the measure this year.

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AFP – Washington played host to another ‘tea party’ rally, but this time the tea was green and the message of the thousands who gathered on the National Mall was about the environment, not anti-government.

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Reuters – Skeptics also accused the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of supporting flawed science after several errors in a major 2007 report surfaced.

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Reuters – Skeptics also accused the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of supporting flawed science after several errors in a major 2007 report surfaced.

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AP – It could take hours or it could take months to stop a 42,000-gallon-a-day oil leak polluting the Gulf of Mexico at the site of a wrecked drilling platform. Whether the environmental threat grows many times bigger depends on whether the oil company can turn the well completely off.

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AFP – President Barack Obama’s climate change agenda was thrown into turmoil Sunday after a key Republican abruptly pulled his support for a compromise energy and climate bill in a blow to Democrats.

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