\nbecause the robots didn’t work. No, really. Damage control for the oil-rig disaster<\/a> in the Gulf of Mexico is sounding like a bad
\nscience-fiction movie<\/a>:<\/p>\n
Engineers are crafting a giant underwater dome to help to
\ncontain an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after attempts to shut off the leak
\nusing robotic submarines failed.<\/p>\n
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… While the robots continued their efforts one mile down
\nand a new rig arrived to drill into the leaking well and plug it in an
\noperation that could take months, BP said that its dome should trap the
\nescaping oil and funnel it to tanks on the surface.<\/p>\n
The 11 workers missing <\/p>\n And:<\/p>\n Louisiana is one month away from opening its inshore As The Wall Street Journal reports<\/a>, <\/p>\n At the G20 meeting in <\/p>\n The continuing Louisiana Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Senate Dem leader vows action on both climate and immigration<\/a><\/p>\n 14 buildings compete to be the Biggest Loser (of energy waste)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nafter the oil-rig explosion are presumed dead, and the leaking oil is expected to reach the Louisiana
\ncoast as early as Saturday. The spill is 48 miles at its widest, 39 miles at
\nits longest and has a circumference of 600 miles, according to reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nshrimping season, its crab season is just starting and oyster beds could be
\nclosed if the oil gets into coastal estuaries.<\/p>\n
\nthis sort of casts a pall over BP’s fantastic quarterly earnings report, which beat
\nanalysts’ forecasts by 18 percent.<\/p>\n
\nPittsburgh last fall, President Obama promised<\/a> to scale back government subsidies to the fossil-fuel industries: “I will work
\nwith my colleagues at the G20 to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies so that we can
\nbetter address our climate challenge.”<\/p>\n
\ndisaster provides a favorable political climate to make good on that pledge.<\/p>\n