NOAA Recognizes Crowley Vessels with VOS Award, Crowley wins 2011 Company Award by NOAA for providing meteorological data.

June 6, 2012

Crowley wins the 2011 Company Award by NOAA for providing meteorological data from their vessels at sea in the Voluntary Observing Ship Program (VOS).
 
Crowley Maritime Corporation has been selected as a 2011 Company Award winner for the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) program. The selection was based on Crowley's 48 vessels providing 204,430 highly accurate and timely weather observations for the U.S. VOS program in 2011. Particularly impressive was Crowley's St. Louis Express, a cargo vessel contributing 4,926 observations in 2011, ranking her the second-highest reporting vessel in the entire U.S. program.

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Cintas Issues Top Tips to Improve Sustainability Efforts through a Document Management Program

CINCINNATI, Jun 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In honor of World Environment Day celebrated annually on June 5, Cintas Corporation /quotes/zigman/69904/quotes/nls/ctas CTAS -0.34% , a leader in secure records management services, today issued top tips to help records managers improve their sustainability efforts. The theme of this year's World Environment Day is "Green Economy: Does it include YOU?" Each year, the Cintas helps companies reduce their environmental footprint with document management recycling programs that save more than 8 million trees, nearly 6.9 billion gallons of wastewater and more than 595 million pounds of solid waste.

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Arctic Oil Spill Investigated in Secret

June 5, 2012

A state watchdog wrapped up the investigation of an oil spill in the Russian Arctic, but named no names in what a WWF expert called a setback in an otherwise unusually efficient handling of the incident.
 
Experts of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Atomic Inspection established the people responsible and the technical causes behind the spill which took place on April 20 at the Trebs oil field in Nenets autonomous district, the agency’s Pechorskoye branch said on its website on Tuesday.
 
The spill was due to incorrect and missing oilwell tubing details, the agency’s main website said on Monday. However, neither report named any names.

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Study: Oil spills a frequent risk to inland areas of Midwest

June 4, 2012

Even though the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon disasters have grabbed the headlines, oil spills hit land much more frequently, posing risks for lakes, streams and rivers.

That's especially true near pipelines, suggests a study in the current issue of the journal Risk Analysis that looks for places particularly vulnerable to inland oil spills across the Upper Midwest.

Despite the attention paid to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, which released about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the majority of oil spills, about 60%, are inland ones. A 30-inch pipe rupture near Marshall, Mich., two years ago, for example, spilled about 19,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek and then the Kalamazoo River, stopping 80 miles short of Lake Michigan.

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