VENICE, LA- Almost a month into one of history’s worst oil spills, BP executives announced a successful development in containing the leak by using the “Insertion Tube Method”, a mile-long metal pipe that has been inserted into the the largest opening of the busted well. The oil is then partially directed to a drill ship on the ocean’s surface. However, BP officials say that this system, has not been fully applied, and is only collecting about 20 %–or about 1,000 barrels– of the total amount flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
BP officials say they are moving slowly in order to avoid the same pitfalls that hampered, and ultimately stopped their last major attempt of containing the gushing oil flow. A 100-ton dome failed to work as engineers hoped when it collected slush-like crystals, called hydrates, that clogged the 4-story structure, and left it abandoned on the sea bed.
Ah, modern technology. Michael Geist points us to the story of a woman in Canada who is suing her mobile phone provider, Rogers, for supposedly “revealing” the fact that she was having an affair. Basically, she had a mobile phone account with Rogers under her maiden name, which she used to have long chats with someone she was having an affair with. Her husband had set up the family’s cable TV service, also from Rogers. At one point, he called Rogers to add internet and home phone service to the account, and Rogers then mailed a “global” bill that included all accounts. In looking over the bill, the husband noticed the long phone calls all to one number, and called it, and got the guy to admit to the affair. Following that, he left the wife.
Now the woman, whose husband walked out, is suing the communications giant for $600,000 for alleged invasion of privacy and breach of contract, the results of which she says have ruined her life.
I don’t know, but I’d have to say that, perhaps, having the affair was the key problem here, rather than the bill. Hell, the husband could have just as easily opened the original mobile phone bill which was sent to the same house. It doesn’t say so, but it seems likely that when the guy called to add services, Rogers asked if he wanted the bills consolidated and the guy just said yes.
Furthermore, the whole thing gets more bizarre later, when the story also claims that the “jilted third-party” later got access to the woman’s voicemail and “harassed” her and “taunted” her (ex-)husband. And, on top of that, the article later notes “the wrongdoing that occurred in 2007 reoccurred” because the phone was still being billed to her husband’s account in 2009. This part is left vague, but, it makes you wonder why two years after her husband had left her, she hadn’t set up separate phone service for herself.
I’m sure it sucks to have all that happen, but it seems like a pretty big stretch to blame your mobile phone provider for the affair you had that caused your spouse to leave you…
Hilarity ensues as Tracy Morgan goes topless and receives a thorough rub-down from sexy eightysomething Betty White during a photoshoot for the June issue of New York Magazine!
Increíble final tuvo el preparador de tuning Gemballa, del cual os hemos mostrado muchos modelos preparados de Porsche exóticos a través de los años. A raíz de la desaparición de Uwe Gemballa desde el día 9 de febrero pasado, algunos dicen que en algún lugar de Sudáfrica, la empresa había suspendido las actividades, al punto de que ahora las autoridades alemanas han echado el cierre para pagar a los proveedores y acreedores de la empresa.
La verdad es que el cierre ya se finalizó a fines del mes de abril, pero todo esto no ha trascendido hasta ayer. Su esposa tuvo que contratar los servicios de un abogado para efectuar la liquidación de los bienes y declarar bancarrota.
Lo último que se supo de Uwe Gemballa, fue que probablemente había sido secuestrado en Sudáfricao que se había refugiado allí por algún problema con la justicia alemana. El último día en el que se tuvo contacto con él, su hijo reveló que le había encargado una transferencia de una cantidad muy importante de dinero. A partir de ese día, nada más se supo del preparador.
The folks over at DigiTimes are reporting a bunch of specs for the yet-to-be-announced iPhone Pro (iPhone HD?), which should be available sometime next month. Current word on the street is that the phone will boast a 960×640 high-resolution IPS display with fringe field switching. If this turns out to be the case, then the 3.4-inch display will pretty much be one of the most impressive screens seen on a phone, and things like direct sunlight will be less of an issue—definitely one advantage over OLED. The actual display is said to be about 33% thinner than what you’d find in previous generation iPhones, including the current iPhone 3GS, which leaves more room internally for a larger battery. The phone should also rock a 512MB memory module from Samsung, which is double what you’d find in the 3GS right now. Lastly, DigiTimes is saying that the processor will bea 1GHz Hummingbird model, and not the Apple A4 chip. We’ve heard so many conflicting reports on that one, and really, the whole thing has yet to be confirmed by Apple—so just take the whole thing with a grain of salt.
Photo Renderings: 2012 Volkswagen Beetle by David Cordoso
We’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the next-generation Volkswagen Beetle. While we wait, independent designer David Cordoso has drawn up these photo-renderings showing us his interpretation of what the Beetle successor could look like.
Cordoso says that he sees the next Beetle to be an emissions-free, fully electric vehicle.
It was recently reported that the successor to the current Beetle will get an upgraded chassis with wider tracks and longer wheelbase. There haven’t been any talks of a fully electric version of the Beetle but insiders have said that a hybrid version is under consideration.
Photo Renderings: 2012 Volkswagen Beetle by David Cordoso:
The worst part of any vacation is coming home. Not just because your fleeting glimpse of freedom is finished, but because you’ve got to pay the absurd phone bill you racked up while you were gone. Ugh. Why? More »
With the job market tight and qualified graduates continuing to pour from colleges and universities, making use of networking sites such as LinkedIn may mean the difference between finding a job and being unemployed. But how can you make the most of such a site and really make your LinkedIn profile shine? If you’re looking for some ways to improve your LinkedIn profile, here are ten tips you might find useful.
1. Proofread
Proofreading probably sounds like common sense, right? However, reviewing the information you place on your LinkedIn profile before you make it public can make a world of difference when it comes to presenting your profile information in a professional manner. 2. Have Someone Else Review Your Profile
Proofreading isn’t always enough to ensure your profile is up to par and ready to be seen by the world. Therefore, before putting yourself out there, consider having someone else review the information Рpreferably an objective third party, not your mother, a spouse or significant other who may be looking to prop up your ego.
3. Structure
There’s another thing to consider before stepping back and resting on the laurels of the good work you’ve done on your profile. While you may have cut and pasted or copied information that you knew beforehand was proofread and polished from a resume or some other source, this doesn’t mean it made the transition to LinkedIn as you assumed it would. Once you’ve placed your information on LinkedIn, you should ensure it is presented as you want it to appear.
4. A Proper Balance
Okay, so you have your profile up and running with plenty of great information about yourself – now what? There is a fine line when creating your LinkedIn profile between blatant self-promotion and eating a little too much humble pie. Certainly you want to sing your praises, but you to much “me, me, me” can sound egotistical and be a turn off to those viewing your profile.
5. Websites
The “Website” portion of your LinkedIn profile can be a useful tool or a dangerous enemy. As a tool, you can use this section to guide people to other sites that might contain relevant information about you and your work. However, placing links to certain social networking or non-subject related sites could give away a little too much information about you and your personal life or distract those who are viewing your profile from more relevant information.
6. Twitter
Adding a link to your Twitter account on LinkedIn, could be a great way let people know you are up on latest social networking trends and give them easier access to information about you. Just remember, if you put it out there, the information it reveals becomes a part of how prospective employers might view you, your work ethic, and personality.
7. A Professional Picture
You probably won’t want your profile picture to be one of you hanging with your friends at a bar, doing body shots, or you in some sort of compromising or unprofessional pose. Even a picture with a child or significant other could be a detractor to some. You never know what messages even seemingly innocent images may send. A good headshot is typically the safest route to go.
8. Staying Updated
By check and updating your profile with regularly and when changes occur in your personal and work history, you can better avoid falling behind the curve when it comes to staying ahead of the competition. While a history of past work experience is important, most employers will likely want to know what you’ve been up to lately when it comes to keeping you and your resume current.
9. Utilize Recommendations
Getting recommendations from others on LinkedIn can be a useful tool in providing evidence of real world experience as well as work ethic and education.
10. Specialties
By listing areas and applications in which you are qualified or have certain experience, you may be able to set yourself apart from the competition. Be careful not to over-embellish though, as doing so can leave you looking bad if or when it comes to an interview and you are asked to explain or describe your supposed qualifications.
This guest article was written by James Adams who works for Cartridge Save where he writes reviews of various products such as the HP 336 ink cartridge and helps manage their blog.
As for specific aspects of financial reform that concern her: pre-emption (rules that would allow banks to move to different states and take advantage of lower interest rates in some markets) and interchange fees regulation.
Specifically, she expects that interchange regulations will cream smaller banks to the benefit of the larger banks, hampering merchants’ access to capital.
As for the stock market: The second half will be “bleak.”
Why?
No end demand from consumers, and a double dip in housing.
Writing in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan detailed how, following World War II, nerve-gas factories were converted en masse into synthetic pesticide factories. These weapons reborn as pesticides are organophosphates, as are both Sarin and VX gases. For farmers, they work by, as Wikipedia tastefully puts it, “irreversibly inactivating” an essential neurotransmitter within insects—just as they worked for military generals by irreversibly inactivating the same equally essential neurotransmitter within soldiers.
The dangers of organophosphates are thus nothing new, though industrial agriculture continues to drop tens of millions of pounds of them on fields across the country every year. The argument in favor of their use has always been that, whatever their devastating effects at high doses, general exposure through the environment was far too low to do any harm.
The BPA fiasco has, of course, taught us that low-level exposure to supposedly “nontoxic” doses can indeed be a problem. And now researchers from Harvard and the University of Montreal report in the Journal of Pediatrics that low-level exposure to organophosphates may significantly increase the risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. “The findings are based on data from the
general U.S. population, meaning that exposure to the pesticides could
be harmful even at levels commonly found in children’s environment,” says Reuters.
The sample included
1,139 children 8 to 15 years old, of which about one in ten met the
criteria for ADHD, matching estimates for the general
population. Researchers then measured the level of organophosphate “metabolites,” i.e. the chemicals that these pesticides break down into within the body, in these children’s urine. What they found was that as exposure increased, ADHD risk increased; a tenfold increase in exposure was associated with a 50% increase in risk of ADHD, which is considered very large. Again, the children in this study are not the children of farmworkers or residents of agricultural areas—they are “representative of the general US population.”
The Reuters article included an appropriately lame response from pesticide maker Dow:
Garry Hamlin of Dow AgroSciences, which
manufactures an organophosphate known as chlorpyrifos, said he had not
had time to read the report closely. But, he added, “the results
reported in the paper don’t establish any association specific to our
product chlorpyrifos.”
Researchers were, as I said, only looking at the metabolites of these pesticides. I’m not chemist enough to know if Hamlin is touting the fact that chlorpyrifos’ metabolites weren’t found or if he’s trying pull a logical fast one by touting the fact that chlorpyrifos itself wasn’t found. Either way, to argue that a study implicating an entire class of chemical, of which your product is a member, somehow doesn’t apply to you is the height of shamelessness.
To summarize:
1) Some of the most common pesticides on the planet may very well cause ADHD in children whose only exposure comes from their use on food and in household products (although further study is needed to establish a causal link)
2) Some exposure to these chemicals can be avoided by buying organically grown fruits and vegetables
3) If you must buy conventionally grown fruit and vegetables, wash them well. A cheap and easy way to make your own vegetable wash involves filling a spray bottle with water and adding a dollop of 100% natural dish soap along with a tablespoon of distilled white vinegar.
Even the most powerful Mercedes-Benz, the SL65 AMG Black Series, can’t escape the hands of German tuner Brabus. Feeling that the stock car’s outputs of 661 hp and 738 lb-ft of torque were merely a good starting point, Brabus upped the ante to 789 hp and 811 lb-ft on this T65 RS.
To make the power, Brabus bolts more powerful turbochargers and new exhaust manifolds to the Black Series’s 6.0-liter V-12 engine. There are four intercoolers, which require the addition of a carbon-fiber hood scoop to fit under the hood and allow them breathe properly. A reprogrammed engine computer and stainless-steel exhaust system round out the changes. Oh, and the modified engine still passes Euro IV emissions standards.
Performance? Brabus predicts a 0–62 mph run of 3.6 seconds, identical to our 0–60 run in a stock Black Series. Top speed is capped at 200 mph, although the company says an unrestricted model could run north of 206 mph.
The car seen here is unique and was special-ordered by a longtime Brabus customer. It’s customized with matte-black paint and a mix of red-stitched leather and Alcantara on the inside. If you like what you see, Brabus will sell you all the parts to turn your own Black Series into a T65 RS.
We just launched a redesign of the 37signals Job Board. From start to finish we spent 10 days on the project. Jamie Dihiansan designed it and Josh Peek programmed it. We love how it turned out.
We had a few goals for the redesign:
A fresh coat of paint. We didn’t want to add or remove any key functionality, but we wanted to redesign the look and feel to freshen it up. Modernized, cleaner, and clearer. We also experimented with Typekit for the first time.
Remove distractions and make our Job Board customers the stars. With our product logos, a big black footer, and our standard header, the old design was too much about us and not enough about the companies listing their jobs on the Job Board.
A better purchasing process. We wanted to make the purchasing flow friendlier and easier to use – especially the preview step.
WYSIWYG. We wanted to add WYSIWYG editing to the job description field. This gives people the tools to make their ads — especially ads with bullet lists — look nicer.
A proper thank you. The old Job Board dropped people back on the home page after they posted their job. The thank you only came in the form of an email. The new design thanks them properly and gives them some helpful information and tools to promote their position.
Well this is embarrassing. Remember last year when we learned that the investment banks were using their toxic real estate assets to create fancy securitization products called re-remics? Turns out the new bonds aren’t any better than the poisonous ones. Rating agency S&P is downgrading many of them, as some have deteriorated to junk.
In case you forget how re-remics work, here’s a diagram from that post back in October, via the WSJ:
308 classes of re-remics created from 2005 through 2009 were downgraded, according to Bloomberg. Some were issued as recently as last July. You might have thought S&P learned from its mistakes, but apparently not.
This is a pretty awful result for the advocates of real estate securitization. In theory, it should be possible to design a well-performing bond backed by a pool of mortgages that sustains significant losses. It’s just unclear why the rating agencies can’t get it right. It’s one thing to get it wrong during the housing boom. But once they realized their mistakes, how did S&P miss again, so soon? Clearly, its assumptions still aren’t conservative enough.
But this news shouldn’t be taken as a verdict that condemns securitization. Certainly, there’s some amount of credit enhancement — excess cushion for mortgage losses — that could prevent senior bonds from taking a hit. Rating agencies just can’t seem to get the numbers right. As a result, investors should do their own work to determine more reasonable assumptions.
This news could further delay the return of the mortgage securitization market. Now that the Federal Reserve is done buying mortgage securities, it needs private investors to re-enter the market. Although there were some rumblings last month that the private mortgage-backed-securities were coming back, S&P’s continued bumbling could keep investors away. Without their funding, however, mortgage availability will suffer and mortgage interest rates will rise.
The Wörthersee Tour in Reifnitz, Austria is the largest gathering of VAG enthusiasts in the world.
For more than two decades, this charming lakeside village has hosted millions of enthusiasts, who come to appreciate the most innovative and trendsetting VWs and Audis in Europe.
Wörthersee, as this event is most commonly known, derives its name from the beautiful lake that dominates this popular vacation area.
Wörthersee Festival brings together cars and fans of these beloved marques in a truly authentic European atmosphere.
Latest news from Wörthersee
This year, Volkswagen is presenting fans in Reifnitz with the Golf GTI Excessive. This concept car illustrates the great design potential of the Golf GTI and how it might develop in the future.
The Golf GTI Excessive is painted in the same fire-red “Firespark Metallic” as the Golf GTI Wörthersee 09. However, this time fire-red is not the only colour
The Audi R8 GT may be making its first official public appearance at the Wörthersee Tour 2010 this week, but the big push for Audi is unarguably the new A1.
Of the 19 cars that Audi is showing, nine are the new A1 mini-car. Seven of those have been customized with special wraps and interior treatments running the gamut from an Austrian police car to an airport guide vehicle.
Of special note is the white-walled, flame-sprouting low-rider riding on black steelies. With this display, it’s clear that Audi wants to go after the same audience that has been applying personalized finishes to modern Minis for the past decade.
To help that effort, Audi will be offering a variety of “competition kits” of interior and exterior bits that will be available when the A1 goes on sale later this year.
Right from the moment of birth, women face a ticking clock, counting down to the end of their life’s fertile phase. In their fourth month in the womb, their immature ovaries begin to develop primordial follicles, the structures that will eventually give rise to egg cells. At birth, each ovary has around 400,000 follicles and won’t make any more. During each menstrual cycle, around a thousand of these cells become activated per ovary. By the time a woman goes through menopause, she has less than a thousand left and her chances of being a biological mother are slim to none.
Follicles stay in a dormant phase that can last for months or even years, until they are gradually activated. Now, a team of Chinese, Japanese and American scientists, led by Jing Li from Stanford University, have found a way to activate these dormant cells at will. It’s a step that could help infertile women, or those who freeze their ovaries before cancer treatments, to eventually have their own children.
Li’s work shows that despite their ability to slumber for decades, follicles only need a gentle nudge to awaken. She managed to activate dormant follicles in the ovaries of newborn mice using chemicals that shut off a single gene called PTEN. When she transplanted these clusters into mice whose ovaries had been removed, they developed into mature follicles. From these came eggs that could ultimately be fertilised and develop into healthy pups.
As with most such discoveries, Li’s work hinges on a lot of previous research. In particular, two years ago, Pradeep Reddy from Umea Universit showed that PTEN controls the steady activation of follicles. If mice lack the gene entirely, all of their dormant follicles become activated at once and their entire supply is exhausted in early adulthood. This dramatic switch means that their ovaries fail prematurely. Li wanted to see if she could achieve the same ends in a more controlled way.
Rather than knocking out the PTEN gene altogether, she temporarily blocked it by soaking ovaries from newborn mice in a chemical called bpV(pic). PTEN works by holding back another gene called PI3K, so Li also tried a chemical called 740Y-P, which activates PI3K. In normal ovaries, the unleashed PI3K targets a protein called Foxo3, which is then removed from the nucleus of follicle cells. This is the trigger that activates them, and that’s exactly what Li saw in her chemically treated ovaries. Foxo3 left the building and the follicles matured, particularly if they were transplanted into a living host.
None of the cells ever developed into a tumour, which is a real concern since one of PTEN’s role is to keep cancer at bay. Instead, the activated follicles eventually produced oocytes, the precursors of egg cells, which seemed normal in every important respect. They showed the standard patterns of methylation – chemical ‘Post-it’ notes that add onto genes and affect how, when and where they are activated. When fertilised, the oocytes grew into healthy embryos and eventually into 20 healthy pups. And best of all, these pups were themselves able to bear live young of their own.
Li showed that the same trick might work in humans too, but with more technical challenges. During operations on women with ovarian cancer, she managed to get pieces of ovary containing primodial follicles. She treated the tissues with the same chemicals as before and transplanted them into mice. The result: mature follicles and oocytes. These weren’t fertilised for obvious ethical concerns, but they seemed to show some problems with their nuclei – that will need to be checked in studies using other primates before this technique could ever be used safely in people.
Groundbreaking cinema critic Roger Ebert will revisit his greatest trials and triumphs in a new –still-untitled — memoir expected to debut on the Grand Central Publishing imprint next year.
Rog is expected to revisit the cancer death of friend and partner Gene Siskel in 1999 and his own battle with the disease — which robbed him of his famous voice.
Four years ago, the noted film critic lost the ability to speak due to thyroid cancer — resulting in numerous surgeries that left Ebert without most of his jaw. In recent months, new software, which uses audio recordings of his previously taped voice, was used to create a synthetic voice, which is very similar to Roger’s natural voice. Using this technology, he has got back the ability to speak and converse.
Ebert, who still critiques fils for The Chicago Sun-Times, made a rare television appearance back in February, when he was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. While appearing on the show, he debuted his new synthesized voice which uses computer technology.
Roger Green bails from the number 114 Lotus Exige – Click above to watch video after the jump
Looks like EVO‘s Roger Green won’t be struggling to find an angle for his coverage of this year’s 24 Hours of Nurburgring. The guy was one of three racers piloting the number 114 Lotus Exige during the race, and while it’s true that there’s no better seat on a race track than the one behind the wheel, Green ran into a bit of trouble on the start of his second session in the car. No one’s exactly sure what happened with the engine, but the little Lotus erupted into a proper fireball as Green pulled off of the GP circuit and onto the Nordschleife.
Before too long, the brakes were shot and the writer/driver was rolling along in his own unstoppable inferno. Green steered the car toward the barrier and did his best tuck and roll to escape the flames while everything was still in motion. As near as anyone can tell, a piece of debris from the track flew up and severed the rear brake lines. From there, it didn’t take much to set everything alight. Green amazingly escaped the blaze without injury. You can check the video after the jump.
If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night’s 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:
This makes clear that BP’s cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster. Equally shocking is the story of BP’s willful and “fundamentally wrong” approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis. Part 1 is well worth watching too. A full transcript is here.
Bottom line: BP is responsible, as Bea says. And Bea “investigated the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster for NASA and the Hurricane Katrina disaster for the National Science Foundation” and “Last week, the White House asked Bea to help analyze the Deepwater Horizon accident.”
BP’s response to the disaster is as outrageous as its pre-disaster corner-cutting.
Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.
“There’s a shocking amount of oil in the deep water, relative to what you see in the surface water,” said Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is involved in one of the first scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil in multiple layers, three or four or five layers deep in the water column.”
Scientists studying video of the gushing oil well have tentatively calculated that it could be flowing at a rate of 25,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil a day. The latter figure would be 3.4 million gallons a day. But the government, working from satellite images of the ocean surface, has calculated a flow rate of only 5,000 barrels a day.
BP has resisted entreaties from scientists that they be allowed to use sophisticated instruments at the ocean floor that would give a far more accurate picture of how much oil is really gushing from the well.
“The answer is no to that,” a BP spokesman, Tom Mueller, said on Saturday. “We’re not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It’s not relevant to the response effort, and it might even detract from the response effort.”
BP’s Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles told CNN that about 1,000 barrels of oil per day is being suctioned up by the tube, out of about 5,000 barrels that the company believes is gushing out daily.
“I’m really pleased we’ve had success now. We’ve actually had what we call this rise insertion tube working more than 24 hours now,” he told CNN.
“This morning we were producing over 1,000 barrels of oil into the drill ship. So it’s good progress.”
Suttles acknowledged that most of the oil continues to spill into the open Gulf waters, but said he hoped to be able over time to increase the ratio of captured oil….
Uhh, the fact that BP is asserting it it knows what fraction of oil it is collecting is prima facie proof that the flow rate is incredibly relevant to the response — as if that weren’t obvious from the fact that you can’t possibly know what the toxicological risk is if you don’t know the full volume of toxic fluid you’ve put into the ocean.
On ABC’s Good Morning America today, Prof. Wereley made this on-air statement:
I am very skeptical it could collect most of the oil and gas because the connection will be leaky under the tremendous pressure that will be inside the pipe.
The Obama administration needs to insist that BP make available all of its videos of underwater gusher and that independent scientists be allowed to analyze the data.
BP’s falsehoods are apparently going to have very serious consequences for public health.
Marine toxicologist and Exxon Valdez survivor Riki Ott has a shocking piece on HuffPost, which opens:
Venice, Louisiana — Local fishermen hired to work on BP’s uncontrolled oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico are scared and confused. Fishermen here and in other small communities dotting the southern marshes and swamplands of Barataria Bay are getting sick from the working on the cleanup, yet BP is assuring them they don’t need respirators or other special protection from the crude oil, strong hydrocarbon vapors, or chemical dispersants being sprayed in massive quantities on the oil slick.
Fishermen have never seen the results from the air-quality monitoring patches some of them wear on their rain gear when they are out booming and skimming the giant oil slick. However, more and more fishermen are suffering from bad headaches, burning eyes, persistent coughs, sore throats, stuffy sinuses, nausea, and dizziness. They are starting to suspect that BP is not telling them the truth.
And based on air monitoring conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a Louisiana coastal community, those workers seem to be correct. The EPA findings show that airborne levels of toxic chemicals like hydrogen sulfide, and volatile organic compounds like benzene, for instance, now far exceed safety standards for human exposure.
The answer to the headline question is an unequivocal “no.”
BP is clearly guilty of gross negligence and outright falsehoods. They must be held accountable.
Two young activists arrested this morning for protesting mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia will have to come up with $100,000 in bail if they want to leave jail any time soon, a West Virginia court ruled today. The Associated Press reports:
Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Chad Barker says 18-year-old EmmaKate Martin and 23-year-old Ben Bryant were charged with trespassing, conspiracy, obstruction and littering.
He says they left garbage near their platform over the road in Julian.
The irony of the last charge certainly won’t be lost on Appalachian environmentalists and community groups, who’ve been screaming for decades about the polluting effects of mountaintop removal, mostly to deaf ears.
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