News tagged with gasoline spill

New technology cleans up Visalia Superfund 100 years ahead of schedule

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's technology was instrumental in cleaning up Southern California Edison's Visalia Pole Yard, which is scheduled to be taken off the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list this ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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Smart highways to avoid traffic jams

(Phys.org) -- Traffic lights on highway access ramps can help prevent traffic jams. Swiss engineers are testing this approach to increase the capacity of Swiss highways.

Technology / Engineering

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In '72, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics

(AP) -- A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Benefits of single atoms acting as catalysts in hydrogen-related reactions

A team of researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering have discovered that individual atoms can catalyze industrially important chemical reactions such as the hydrogenation ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New science being used to fight arson convictions

(AP) -- A death row inmate in Ohio is hoping the state parole board will give him the chance to argue that a mysterious "man in red" could have started the arson fire that killed his 3-year-old son.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 mos. after BP spill

(AP) -- Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Solar rays could replace petroleum fuels, research shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alternative fuel sources for cars may have a glowing future as a Kansas State University graduate student is working to replace petroleum fuels with ones made from sunlight.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

US opens ways for Shell Arctic Ocean drilling

US officials have granted oil giant Shell conditional approval to begin drilling exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean from next year, a move swiftly slammed by conservationists as "inexcusable".

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created Aug 05, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (14) | comments 10

'Watermark ink' device identifies unknown liquids instantly

Materials scientists and applied physicists collaborating at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have invented a new device that can instantly identify an unknown liquid.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Economist studies how higher gas price affect consumer behavior

A dollar is a dollar is a dollar, so goes the economic theory of fungibility. But do people really act that way? In a new working paper, Brown University economist Justine Hastings and Jesse Shapiro of Chicago Booth School ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alert after BP oil refinery in US loses power

Residents of a US Gulf town have been told to stay indoors and turn off their air conditioners after power failures at a nearby BP refinery and Dow Chemical plant, officials have said.

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created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5


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