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Environment News tagged with Oil

The Polar Bear Is Still One Oil Spill Away From Disaster
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, polar bears, oil, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 9 days ago - newsblaze.com
Despite recent proposed critical habitat designation, The Obama administration's recent proposed designation of 200,000 square miles of Alaskan waters, sea ice and coastal area as critical habitat for the polar bear is encouraging news for a species
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Polar Bears Vs. Oil With Alaska in the Balance
Environment  (tags: drilling, oil, destruction, alaska, polar bears, habitat destruction, governor, wildlife )

Simone
- 10 days ago - thenewstribune.com
Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears get in the way of the state's continued prosperity.
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Oil Spill Off Australian Coast Poses Major Threat to Marine Life
Environment  (tags: Oil, risk, Timor Sea, Australia, science, environment, threat, marine life )

Sophie
- 33 days ago - independent.co.uk
Sea birds are dying and thousands of marine creatures are at risk from a massive oil spill in the Timor Sea, off north-west Australia, warn the first scientists to survey the isolated site.
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US Gives Shell Green Light for Offshore Oil Drilling in the Arctic
Environment  (tags: antarctic, oil, drilling, us )

Claudia
- 36 days ago - oceansentry.org
Conservation groups based in Alaska have accused the Obama administration of repeating the mistakes of George Bush after it gave the conditional go-ahead for Shell to begin drilling offshore
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US Gives Shell Green Light for Offshore Oil Drilling in the Arctic
Environment  (tags: environment, drilling, oil, arctic, destruction, habitat, protection, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 37 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Conservationists say the decision by the Obama administration to allow drilling in the Beaufort Sea repeats Bush era mistakes
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BP Finds a Huge Oil Deposit in the Gulf of Mexico
Environment  (tags: energy, oil, offshore drilling, billions of gallons )

Lone
- 84 days ago - bloggingstocks.com
The "Tiber" field discovered by BP in deep water about 250 miles off the coast of Houston is probably the deepest drill on record, more than 6.5 miles. deep
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Trade Group Asks Oil Companies to Recruit Employees for 'Citizen' Rallies
Environment  (tags: globalwarming, climate-change, astroturf, fake, grass-roots, rallies, oil, company, paid, employees, masquerade, theater, politics, public, relations, money, corruption, corporate, business, dishonesty, lies, environment, pollution )

Tom
- 89 days ago - washingtonpost.com
"It's the most powerful among us masquerading as grass-roots outrage to stifle debate on global warming," says Greenpeace of the oil group's plans. "These are manufactured concerns, and the people who get involved in this are paid to put on this theater."
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Tell Big Oil to Stop the Lies ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, oil, lies, habitat, protection, climate-change, nature, humans, wildlife )

Cher
- 96 days ago - greenpeace.org
We have exposed a secret oil industry plan to organise fake rallies against US climate legislation, and to exaggerate concern over the cost of action on climate change. The plan, stated in a leaked internal memo from the API (American Petroleum Institute
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Arctic Protections Proposed in Legislation
Environment  (tags: environment, arctic, polar, bears, walrus, wolves, tourism, gas, oil, fishing, climate-change, pollution, nature, habitat, protection, wildlife, politics, science, ecosystems, destruction, conservation, climatechange, animals )

Tom
- 115 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Polar bears are stranded at sea. Walruses are falling victim to wolves and polar bears. Oil and gas development is expanding. And the Arctic seas are being opened to the possibility of tourism, shipping and perhaps even commercial-scale fishing.
7 comments
Republicans Blackmailing Science for Big Oil ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, oil, protection, nature, habitat, climate-change )

Cher
- 131 days ago - globalwarming.change.org
We know how the American people feel about political blackmail and putting special interest politics over the advice of experts and scientists. They voted in record numbers to elect Barack Obama President last year and reject the ways of George Bush and
17 comments
Protect Kamchatka Salmon and Indigenous Peoples From Big Oil ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, oil, destruction, habitat, protection, nature, wildlife, humans )

Cher
- 142 days ago - globalwarming.change.org
The Western Kamchatka shelf is a vital nursery for salmon, pollock and crab for the Asia Pacific region, and it is also essential to the survival of Kamchatka indigenous peoples. Please speak out in solidarity with Kamchatka's local communities and ask
7 comments
Stop Oil Firms Destroying of Nature and Wildlife in Alberta Canada ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, oil, destruction, protection, habitat, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 148 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The stink of tar, black and gray waste water lakes dominate the landscape.
23 comments
Amazon Rainforest Crisis Alert
Environment  (tags: Amazon, AmazonRainforest, rainforest, environment, peru, americas, u.s., world, news, youtube, blog, crisis, alert, public warning, media, SouthAmerica, politics, business, science, tech, technology, research, oil, industry, HillaryClinton, ClimateChange )

SirRobert
- 165 days ago - thefifthknight.blog.friendster.com
There are those who still do not fully understand the emergency level nature and environmental impact repercussions from the loss of protester's human rights, and then following directly into the total extinction of the world's rainforests and species!
9 comments
Take Action: Save the Amazon Rainforest - Care2 Petition Site
Environment  (tags: AmazonRainforest, amazon, environment, petition, take-action, government, politics, u.s., SouthAmerica, americas, americans, activism, activists, Care2, C2NN, habitatdestruction, forests, trees, protection, research, world, business, oil, ClimateChange )

SirRobert
- 165 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Here is your chance to take yet another step toward protecting the world's dwindling natural rainforests! I challenge everyone to sign and take the time to forward to at least 25 friends, and pledge to do everything imaginable to Save the Rainforests.
24 comments
Sign Petition: Protect Your Drinking Water From Toxic Chemicals
Environment  (tags: environment, halliburton, cheney, corruption, lies, cover-up, crime, politics, government, bush, americans, health, risk, disease, epa, exxon, oil, gas, toxic, drinking, water, pollution, ecosystems, destruction, humans, protection, conservation )

Tom
- 167 days ago - humanitarianrelief.change.org
Thanks to a provision slipped into the Energy Policy Act of 2005 at the request of Halliburton, Exxon and other corporations, the oil and gas industry was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act that protects drinking water for millions of Americans.
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