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Out of the BP Oil Slick, Art Emerges
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(June 21) -- There's a new kind of oil painting that's gaining popularity in the art world. As oil continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico following an explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, artists and graphic designers have taken to their canvases and computer screens to create striking visual commentary about the growing environmental disaster. In the weeks since the spill began, a number of graphic designers have riffed on the oil giant's recognizable green logo, creating emblems they say better represent a company now associated with oil-drenched waterfowl and a seemingly ...
Oil Spill Cleanup Crews Face Heat-Related Health Threat
By Katie Drummond - Politics DailyHot summer weather in the Gulf region is starting to threaten the health of oil spill cleanup workers, and temperatures are expected to keep rising. Heat indices are now well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the area, and meteorologists anticipate "extreme heat" over the weekend, CNN is reporting. Dizziness, headaches and nausea are some of the acute symptoms being detected in ailing workers. None have so far suffered heat stroke, which is characterized by fainting and breathing problems, largely because crews are working in teams and detect problems before they become severe. But the ...
Obama Will Return to Gulf Friday as White House Battles to Check Spill
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith the situation along the Gulf Coast rapidly deteriorating, President Barack Obama plans a second trip to Louisiana on Friday morning to assess efforts to stop an oil spill that is sending tar balls and black goo onto that state's beaches and into its precious marshes. The White House announced Obama's visit as BP workers readied an operation to plug the deep sea well with a "top kill" of dense mud that is to be shot into the wellhead nearly a mile beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama and his Cabinet have faced increasing pressure to take control of the situation after ...
Gulf Oil Spill: Cancellations and Worry Along the Coast
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyNEW ORLEANS -- Bearing out many peoples' worst fears during a month of heightening anxiety, thick oil is now coming ashore on stretches of Louisiana's gulf coast, especially the barrier islands. In some cases, the toxic sludge has also entered the inner salt marshes that nurture so much of the Bayou State's marine life, and thus its seafood industry. Patches of oil can be found from the Louisiana's eastward Chandeleur Islands, due south of Biloxi, Miss., to Marsh Island, due south of Lafayette, La. (Both sites are National Wildlife Refuges.) Measured in a relatively straight line along ...
Gulf Oil Spill: Flow May Be 14 Times Greater Than First Thought
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe government initially estimated that 5,000 barrels of oil per day are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP well that exploded April 20. That number came -- hastily -- from government scientists in Seattle, and quickly filtered through the media. Now, independent teams of analysts are using other technologies to calculate the size of the spill, and concluding that the government estimate is way off. In an analysis for NPR, Steven Wereley of Purdue University used particle image velocimetry, a scanning technology used to determine volume and movement of fluid. Wereley analyzed a video ...
Gulf Coast Senators Landrieu, Nelson Clash Over Oil Spill
By David Sessions - Politics DailyWords flew between Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Bill Nelson of Florida over their divergent responses to the oil spill that will affect industries in both of their states, The Hill reports. Both are considered moderates, but their disagreement comes over which industry should be protected in the spill's aftermath: tourism, one of Florida's biggest income generators, or off-shore drilling, Louisiana's largest industry. Landrieu, the more conservative of the two, defended the oil industry last week, saying the explosion at a BP drilling rig was tragic but unlikely to happen ...
On the Gulf Coast, Fighting a Tide of Oil, Painful Memories and Dread
By Jason Berry - Politics DailyNEW ORLEANS -- The great media machinery has descended on Louisiana's serrated Gulf of Mexico coastline, the wetlands scarred by 10,000 navigational canals cut by the oil companies over many years. All that gouging of saw grass and florabunda yields the disappearance of a marsh plot the size of a football field every hour. Flash back to Aug. 31, 2005: Hurricane Katrina's winds pushed rolling sheets of water into a huge funnel that surged across those soggy flatlands like a sluiceway into the holy city where jazz began, 80 percent of which went under water. Average flood level, four feet. You ...
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