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The state Department of Environmental Quality and ExxonMobil
Corp. are in the process of dispute resolution discussions involving a June
14 naphtha release at the Baton Rouge chemical plant.
Shrimp season brings challenges for fishermen
Although the shrimp catch has improved in many state waters,
problems from the 2010 BP oil spill still linger, shrimpers said.
The market for Gulf shrimp outside of Louisiana is still down since
the spill. And shrimp are still scarce in parts of the Barataria Basin near
Grand Isle, which was hit hard by the spill, shrimp processors and dealers
said.
Burlington City Council passes resolutions opposing tar sands
oil: the beginning of a groundswell against tar sands in New England
Big Oil has a plan that will put communities at risk in New England
and Eastern Canada. The Portland-Montreal Pipeline – a very old oil
pipeline owned mostly by ExxonMobil – may be reversed to enable dirty
corrosive tar sands oil to be pumped through Vermont’s Northeast
Kingdom en route to Portland, Maine, part of a broader project including
the reversal of an Enbridge pipeline through Eastern Canada. But not if
Vermont communities have a say. On Monday night, Burlington, Vermont
took a bold and important step toward taking Vermont – and New England
– on the path to being “tar sands free.”
Tiny Armies of Microsubmarines Could Clean Up Oil Spills
Back in May, we covered a cool new technology looking into how
microsubmarines could be the future of cleaning up oil spills in the ocean.
Megan wrote, “The tiny machines are able to absorb and transport oil
droplets in water, meaning they could be our next go-to solution for
cleaning up oil spills…[T]he microsubmarines were based on microtube
engines that were created to deliver medicine through the bloodstream of
the human body. The submarines are eight micrometers long — ten times
smaller than the width of a human hair — and are propelled by an inner
layer of hydrogen peroxide that reacts with the liquid they’re submerged in
to produce bubbles and shoot them forward.”
Next In Line For A Fracking Boom, California Looks At The
Rules