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Lake disappears, Kansas town tries to get it back
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA few fish struggle to survive in the puddle that used to be Anthony Lake. "It is very sad," camper Sherman Kelsey says. The lake was built back in 1934 with WPA funds. Through the decades it served as a major recreational hub for South Central...Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Petroleum Industry
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Review: 'Big Men' hits a gusher of oil and greed
No single resource is more essential to modern life than oil, and no film offers a more incisive look at how the enormous wealth oil creates subverts the morality of individuals, corporations, even entire countries than Rachel Boynton's compelling...Tags: Ghana, Nigeria, Politics, Western Africa, Elections
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ExxonMobil faces federal lawsuit over Arkansas oil spill
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and the state of Arkansas filed suit against the oil giant ExxonMobil over a March 29 pipeline rupture that spilled 210,000 gallons of oil into a residential neighborhood and waterways in the small town of...Tags: Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mayflower Voyage (1620), Environmental Politics, Oil Spills
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State, feds taking ExxonMobil to court over Arkansas oil spill
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- State and federal prosecutors in Arkansas are seeking civil penalties from ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. over the company's oil spill in a central Arkansas neighborhood. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and U.S. Attorney Chris Thyer...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Prosecution, Environmental Issues
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Oil Spill Response Exercise Planned for Valdez
Channel 2 NewsAn oil spill response exercise is planned this week in Valdez to test government and industry capabilities. The U.S. Coast Guard, state Department of Environmental Conservation and city of Valdez plan to participate in the exercise along with the...Tags: Environmental Pollution, U.S. Coast Guard, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Environmental Issues
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Ethereal, 8-foot-long 'sea serpent' caught on video
Scientists have released video of an 8-foot-long, shimmering oarfish taken about 200 feet below the ocean surface -- and it is breathtaking. Elusive and alien-looking, the oarfish has a thin, eel-like body with squiggly iridescent markings that glow...Tags: Energy Resources, Science and Technology
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U.S. oil and gas reserves up by a third, new report says
WASHINGTON -- Reserves of oil and gas that can be developed using current technology are 35% greater in 2013 than in 2011, according to a new report by the Energy Information Administration, the research branch of the Energy Department. The rise in...
Tags: Natural Resources, Energy Resources, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Trayvon Martin
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Florida Travel Guide for Scuba Diving
Sentinel Staff WriterKnown for its white sand beaches and thousands of miles of coastline, there is more to Florida's sun-filled fun than just the beach. With a diverse selection of underwater environments, Florida offers some of the world's best scuba diving. From the...Tags: Coral Reefs, Walt Disney, Bodies of Water, Marathon, Tourism and Leisure
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The climate change guilt trip
A friend recently returned from a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. His eyes shone as he described the opalescent sky, the vitality of wildlife in spring and the fun he'd had playing with his two young daughters during the mellow evenings. It had been...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Weather, Passenger Cars, Hybrid Vehicles, Global Warming
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Californians uneasy about fracking's safety, lack of oversight
As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll....
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Chicago gas prices, highest in U.S., continue climb
Tribune staff reportAverage gas prices in Chicago are now higher than anywhere in the United States, driven higher by a combination of refinery issues and the annual transition to a more costly summer blend. Drivers in the city are now paying an average of $4.55 a gallon,...Tags: Automotive Equipment, AAA, BP Plc, Minor League Baseball, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Deadline triggers rush of Gulf oil-spill lawsuits, including some from interior Florida
Even as Florida brought home several top-10 finishes in this year's annual contest for the nation's best beaches, the tsunami of lawsuits triggered by BP's beach-trashing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico three years ago continued to gain strength. The...
Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Volusia County, Pam Bondi, Trials, Oil Spills
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