Tests on Gulf oil "superskimmer" inconclusive: ship owner

July 5, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

TMT Shipping Offshore's converted supertanker, Reuters – Tests on a supertanker adapted to skim large quantities of oily water from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico are inconclusive because of high seas, ship owner TMT Shipping Offshore said on Monday.




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What Your Grocer Won’t Tell You About Food Additives [Infographic]

July 5, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Summer is the season for fresh, local foods and bountiful farmers’ markets, but unfortunately, too few of us are really taking advantage of nature’s harvest. Even though eating what’s in season, and cooking for ourselves, should be cheaper than processed and prepared fare, many people are stuck on old habits. This is also true despite the fact that cooking your own food helps with weight loss, because you have better control over what’s included and you tend to use lower-fat ingredients.

Another good reason to eat fresh and local foods is to cut down on preservatives and other food additives, some of which are questionable. We’ve written before about the debate over nitrates and nitrites (are they really unhealthy?), as well as the continuing controversy of hormones in dairy products.


Let’s take a closer look at food additives:

Cleanup ships idled as storms rattle Gulf region

June 29, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Vice President Joe Biden talks with Carol Rotolo, who owns a seafood takeout restaurant and has faced economic hardship due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, as he visited Pomes Seafood distributor, who has shut down, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – The crashing waves and gusting winds churned up by Tropical Storm Alex put the Gulf oil spill largely in Mother Nature’s hands Tuesday. Regardless of whether the storm makes things worse or even better, it has turned many people fighting the spill into spectators.


Tropical storm could disrupt oil spill cleanup

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National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen speaks at a press conference in New Orleans, Monday, June 28, 2010. Allen joined  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and White House energy and climate change adviser Carol Browner to deliver a briefing on ongoing response efforts to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP – Tropical Storm Alex steamed across the Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path that could keep it away from BP’s busted well but could still stir up heavy winds, rain and choppy seas that drive the oil deeper inland and bring much of the cleanup to a standstill.



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Oil-hit Gulf on edge as Atlantic storm surges

June 28, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Workers place absorbent material on to the beach as oil residue washes ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in Orange Beach, Alabama. The British energy giant said its plans to drill through four kilometers of rock were on track. No permanent solution to the spill is expected before two relief wells are due to be completed in August.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AFP – The first major storm of the Atlantic season surged toward the Gulf of Mexico on a path likely to avoid the BP oil spill but leaving coastal residents jittery about its destructive potential.


Drilling protesters join hands on oiled Fla. beach

June 27, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Hundreds of people join hands while taking part in the Hands Across the Sand movement Saturday, June, 26, 2010 in Tybee Island, Ga. One of the national movement's goal is to oppose offshore oil drilling and champion clean and renewable energy. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP – Hundreds of people including Florida’s governor joined hands on an oil-stained strip of beach in the Florida Panhandle as part of an international demonstration against offshore drilling Saturday.



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Stormy conditions could hamper Gulf oil spill cleanup

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Workers remove oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in Orange Beach, Alabama. Tropical Storm Alex veered away from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Saturday but experts warned that strong waves and winds could still upset efforts to halt the environmental disaster.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AFP – Tropical Storm Alex veered away from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill but experts warned that strong waves and winds could still upset efforts to halt the environmental disaster.