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Oil Spills

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Oil Spills Defined

The harmful release of oil into the environment, usually in the water, sometimes killing area flora and fauna. Oil spills are very difficult to clean up.

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CARLSBAD: Asphalt spills into Batiquitos Lagoon in crash

Published September 6, 2008, 12:50 am, North County Times

CARLSBAD ---- A truck headed north on Interstate 5 crashed early Friday and dumped as much as 19 tons of asphalt and 90 gallons of diesel fuel onto the marshy banks of the Batiquitos Lagoon. Officials contained the spill with absorbent booms, and a l

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Letters to the editor

Published September 5, 2008, 3:15 am, Hampton Union

This is in response to your editorial endorsing John Stephen. I am a Jeb Bradley supporter who used to believe he and John Stephen were both good men who just differed on their approach to solving the problems of government. In the past few weeks,...

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Get Green for Back to School

Published September 4, 2008, 4:21 am, ABC News

Learn how to make this school year a more eco-friendly one.

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ON THE CHEMICAL WATERFRONT

Published September 3, 2008, 1:06 pm, New York Press

Radioactive waste has existed in Williamsburg for decades, but thanks to gentrification, its half-life may be up.

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Flint Journal letters to the editor: The topics: Oil prices and the stock market; John Edwards' affair; Speak up ...

Published September 3, 2008, 10:53 am, The Flint Journal

With all the rhetoric going on now about drilling for oil in restricted areas of the United States, the major problem in this country today is not enough refineries in service. More need to be built, but the oil companies will not do that unless the federal government puts pressure on them.

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Experts Available to Discuss Impact of Hurricane Gustav

Published September 1, 2008, 2:20 pm, Newswise

Several experts from the University of New Hampshire are available to discuss the impact of Hurricane Gustav, which is forecast to hit Louisiana as a major hurricane early next week.

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Biologists launch effort to clean up lost fishing gear off California coast

Published August 31, 2008, 6:37 am, San Mateo County Times

Biologists at UC-Davis are set to begin work on a two-year project to recover thousands of pounds of abandoned hooks, nets, crab pots, lobster traps and fishing line that are killing marine wildlife along California's coast.

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Palin greeted by raucous Pa. rally

Published August 30, 2008, 10:19 pm, The Politico

Pa. crowd boos when Palin praises Clinton, and at Obama-Biden rally crowd boos at the mention of Palin.

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