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Jun 26, 2010
TORONTO/MIAMI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron were expected to discuss London-based BP Plc and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Saturday as stormy weather raised fears that clean-up operations could be disrupted.
Jun 26, 2010
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Alex, the first named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, formed on Saturday near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and could be headed for the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Jun 26, 2010
ST. ALBERT, Alberta (Reuters) - A judge found Syncrude Canada Ltd, Canada's largest oil sands producer, guilty on Friday in the deaths of 1,600 ducks that landed on a toxic Northern Alberta tailings pond in 2008, ruling the company should have had deterrents in place.
Jun 26, 2010
GRANDE ISLE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was on track on Saturday to reach the Gulf of Mexico within days, a potential threat to containment and cleanup of the worst ever U.S. oil spill.
Jun 26, 2010
CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Alex gained speed as it approached Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where it was expected to make landfall Saturday night before heading into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Jun 26, 2010
ST. ALBERT, Alberta (Reuters) - A judge found Syncrude Canada Ltd, Canada's largest oil sands producer, guilty on Friday in the deaths of 1,600 ducks that landed on a toxic Northern Alberta tailings pond in 2008, ruling the company should have had deterrents in place.
Jun 26, 2010
GRANDE ISLE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was on track on Saturday to reach the Gulf of Mexico within days, a potential threat to containment and cleanup of the worst ever U.S. oil spill.
Jun 26, 2010
ST. ALBERT, Alberta (Reuters) - A judge found Syncrude Canada Ltd, Canada's largest oil sands producer, guilty on Friday in the deaths of 1,600 ducks that landed on a toxic Northern Alberta tailings pond in 2008, ruling the company should have had deterrents in place.
Jun 26, 2010
ST. ALBERT, Alberta (Reuters) - A judge found Syncrude Canada Ltd, Canada's largest oil sands producer, guilty on Friday in the deaths of 1,600 ducks that landed on a toxic Northern Alberta tailings pond in 2008, ruling the company should have had deterrents in place.
Jun 25, 2010
WASHINGTON/VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The Obama administration lost a legal skirmish on Thursday when a judge refused to put on hold his decision lifting a ban on deepwater oil drilling imposed after the worst spill in U.S. history.
Jun 25, 2010
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of major investors on Friday urged Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard to take swift action to fight climate change and cut carbon emissions blamed for heating up the planet.
Jun 25, 2010
CAIRO (Reuters) - An oil spill polluting part of Egypt's Red Sea coast was not caused by any of the oil platforms operating in the area, Egypt's Oil Minister Sameh Fahmy was quoted as saying on Friday.
Jun 25, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A low-pressure area over the western Caribbean Sea strengthened further, and now has a high 70 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression over the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Friday.
Jun 25, 2010
(Reuters) - Contract driller Rowan Cos said Apache Corp declared a force majeure for one of its rigs in the troubled Gulf of Mexico zone, citing delays in drilling permit due to new offshore drilling regulations.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - Greenland has won back the right to hunt humpback whales for the first time in a quarter-century after it threatened to leave the world's top whaling body if other nations reject its ancestral traditions.
Jun 25, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California environmentalists opened fire on Wednesday on a measure approved for the state's November ballot that would roll back a landmark law regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - A whale population once thought extinct faces a fresh challenge to its survival as oil companies step up exploration efforts in its main feeding ground off Siberia, delegates to the world's top whaling body said.
Jun 25, 2010
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard.
Jun 25, 2010
ST. ALBERT, Alberta (Reuters) - An Alberta judge found Syncrude Canada Ltd, the biggest producer in Canada's oil sands, guilty on Friday on charges stemming from the deaths of 1,600 ducks that landed on a toxic northern Alberta tailings pond in 2008.
Jun 25, 2010
TORONTO/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Fearing the "destruction" of BP Plc, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday some certainty is needed over its costs from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill even as the company's stock plunged to a 14-year low.
Jun 25, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California environmentalists opened fire on Wednesday on a measure approved for the state's November ballot that would roll back a landmark law regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - A whale population once thought extinct faces a fresh challenge to its survival as oil companies step up exploration efforts in its main feeding ground off Siberia, delegates to the world's top whaling body said.
Jun 25, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical disturbance over the western Caribbean Sea strengthened further on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, giving it a high 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression later in the day or Saturday.
Jun 25, 2010
(Reuters) - Contract driller Rowan Cos said Apache Corp declared a force majeure for one of its rigs in the troubled Gulf of Mexico zone, citing delays in drilling permit due to new offshore drilling regulations.
Jun 25, 2010
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the new clean-power standard.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - Greenland has won back the right to hunt humpback whales for the first time in a quarter-century after it threatened to leave the world's top whaling body if other nations reject its ancestral traditions.
Jun 25, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California environmentalists opened fire on Wednesday on a measure approved for the state's November ballot that would roll back a landmark law regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 25, 2010
AGADIR, Morocco (Reuters) - A whale population once thought extinct faces a fresh challenge to its survival as oil companies step up exploration efforts in its main feeding ground off Siberia, delegates to the world's top whaling body said.
Jun 25, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical disturbance over the western Caribbean Sea strengthened further on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, giving it a high 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression later in the day or Saturday.
Jun 25, 2010
(Reuters) - Contract driller Rowan Cos said Apache Corp declared a force majeure for one of its rigs in the troubled Gulf of Mexico zone, citing delays in drilling permit due to new offshore drilling regulations.
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