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02/24/2018 / By David Williams

Severe “ecological injury” has already been caused by the Sanchi oil spill, which is now threatening reefs, protected marine areas and the fishing industry

Remember the Sanchi oil spill? It has barely been a couple of months since that terrible accident happened, and yet it seems like most people have already began forgetting about it. Sanchi is an oil tanker that recently sank in the East China Sea, causing what some experts are now claiming to be almost irreparable […]

01/23/2018 / By David Williams

2018 could be the year “clean energy” becomes “cheap energy”

2018 could be the year that the words ‘renewable energy’ finally become synonymous with cheap energy. There are many signs that point to this becoming a reality, such as the growing number of readily available and highly affordable renewable energy solutions that have made the news in the past 12 months. But industry experts and […]

09/24/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

The big 2010 oil spill killed aquatic life and ecosystems; now it’s killing the cleanup crew

The dispersants used during the cleanup of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill have made the cleanup workers sick. This was the conclusion that federal scientists came to in their study that was published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The report is a part of the ongoing Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) study being spearheaded by the […]

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