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Hungary's Toxic Sludge Nearly the Size of Gulf Spill
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KOLONTAR, Hungary (Oct. 8) -- The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests heightened concerns about possible longer-term harm caused by toxic heavy metals in the slurry. Government officials lowered their estimate of the size of Monday's catastrophic spill - but even those figures were mind-boggling. They said the reservoir break at an alumina plant dumped up to 700,000 cubic meters (184 million gallons) of sludge onto three villages - not much less in a few hours than the 200 million gallons the blown-out ...
Greenpeace Activists in Chocolate Sauce Protest Deep-Water Drilling
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(Oct. 4) -- Occasionally, you'll hear of people slathering themselves in chocolate sauce because they're feeling a bit kinky -- not because they're making a political statement. Bikini-clad activists in France covered themselves in fake oil to voice a simple message: Oil and water don't mix. Demonstrators from the environmental group Greenpeace put on bathing suits and doused themselves with mock petroleum on Saturday to protest deep-water drilling and a controversial plan to extract oil from oil-bearing sands. According to the Greenpeace website, the demonstrators gathered in Paris, ...
FBI Surveillance of U.S. Advocacy Groups: Funny If It Weren't So Sad
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIt was the day after Thanksgiving -- Friday, Nov. 29, 2002 -- and things were slow at the FBI's Pittsburgh office. So slow, in fact, that an eager gumshoe, let's call him "Agent Dwight," seeking to score brownie points, asked his boss for an assignment. The supervisor, let's call him "Agent Michael," carelessly sent the probationary agent out to look for terrorism suspects at an anti-war protest in downtown Pittsburgh. The event had been organized by the Thomas Merton Center, a left-leaning political advocacy group. But there were no such suspects, at least at that time, and evidently no ...
Greenpeace Activists Shut Down London BP Stations
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 27) -- Greenpeace activists temporarily shut down dozens of BP gas stations across London today to protest the company's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and to draw attention to environmental problems stemming from the world's reliance on petroleum. Starting at dawn, Greenpeace volunteer teams -- each named after an animal whose habitat the group says is threatened by what it called "BP's reckless oil exploration" -- fanned out across the British capital to disable BP stations one by one by pulling a safety switch that cuts off electricity to each station, the group said. In ...
Trafigura Fined 1 Million Euros: How the Toxic Dumping Case Went Down
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 23) -- A Dutch court fined commodities trader Trafigura 1 million euros today at the conclusion of a seven-week trial related to toxic waste dumped in the Ivory Coast in 2006. Below, Surge Desk breaks down how the case played out. 1. What is Trafigura? Trafigura is a multinational company that trades commodities, including oil and petroleum products. It's the world's third largest independent oil trader, according to the company's website. Trafigura has been in trouble before -- in 2001 for smuggling oil out of Iraq and in 2006 for bribing Jamaican officials. 2. What was the company ...
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 ...
Greenpeace Stages Dramatic Protest at U.S. Chamber of Commerce
By David Sessions - Politics DailyGreenpeace sent four green-and-white squad cars labeled "Climate Crime Unit" to the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Thursday morning, disrupting a field trip for local schoolchildren and provoking a response by D.C. police. Several demonstrators were arrested, but not before they had scaled the Chamber building on H Street, draping it in yellow "crime scene" tape and barking through bullhorns as if participating in a hostage negotiation. "We're asking the Chamber of Commerce to release our climate policy," said Molly Dorozenski, a Greenpeace official. "This is the ...
Twitter, Macaca and Stephen Colbert: Politics Dailies - July 9
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyA short one today folks, as I spent the bulk of my day teaching some Politics Daily writers how to use Twitter (They created a hashtag!) Bob Franken points out that even in a time of change, you can pretty much pre-write the news and just fill in the blanks. Minnesota Republicans cut Sen. Al Franken a check for more than $95,000, including $872 in interest. Mike Memoli over at Real Clear Politics runs down the staggering amounts of money 10 politicians have personally coughed up to finance their campaigns. Greenpeace hangs a banner over Lincoln's ear. George "Macaca" Allen is apparently ...
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