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U.S. Indicts Bogus OSHA Trainer
October 3, 2012
A Mississippi woman is facing years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines after allegedly posing as a federally certified safety trainer in the wake of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.
A 22-count indictment, unsealed Sept. 26 in federal court in New Orleans, charges Connie M. Knight, 46, with impersonating a federal employee to entice people to pay her for bogus hazardous waste safety training.
Oil Companies Bribing Gulf States to Ignore Spill?
October 1, 2012
Recently, Gulf area legislators have been pushing to get their states a larger share of government income from offshore drilling. We’re told that they need the extra revenue to improve flood protection. But more is afoot here, and it deserves scrutiny.
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Oil Spill Standard addresses in-situ burning effectiveness.
September 24, 2012
ASTM International Committee F20 on Hazardous Substances and Oil Spill Response has approved several standards for in-situ burning. Latest proposed standard, ASTM WK37324, Guide for Evaluation of In-Situ Burning Effectiveness, is being developed by Subcommittee F20.15 on In-Situ Burning. Proposed guide will help standardize evaluation of burn and produce results that will be consistent among different users, enhancing accuracy and credibility of information.
New Data On the Biofuel Ecobalance: Most Biofuels Are Not 'Green'
September 26, 2012
A new study led by Empa gives an up-to-date picture of the ecobalance of various biofuels and their production processes. Only a few are overall more environmentally friendly than petrol.
In recent years, the demand for supposedly environmentally friendly biofuels has increased significantly worldwide; on the one hand, this has resulted in the increased cultivation of so-called energy plants and, on the other hand, innovative production methods for the second generation of biofuels have been developed.
BP in talks with Marathon about the sale of Texas City Refinery
September 20, 2012
BP PLC (NYSE: BP), the third-largest energy company, is in talks to sell its huge Texas City, Texas, refinery to Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) to help pay for the cost of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Financial Times reported.
The refinery could sell for as much as $2.5 billion, an unnamed source told FT. The Texas City refinery processes 475,000 barrels per day and is the third largest in the U.S. BP produced around 920 million barrels of oil and gas in 2011.