Archive for May 9th, 2010

Erwin Seba Reuters.com Sun May 9, 2010 BP Plc engineers desperately explored options on Sunday to control oil gushing from a ruptured well deep under the Gulf of Mexico after a setback with a huge undersea containment dome fueled fears of a prolonged and growing environmental disaster. The spill is spreading west, further from... »

A deep sea drilling moratorium will leave global supplies depleted just as demand gets greater By David Strahan IndependentUK Sunday, 9 May 2010 Even as the first oil from BP’s stricken Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico washed ashore this weekend, and as the clamour mounts, experts claim the slick will be... »

By Amy Gardner Washington Post.com Sunday, May 9, 2010 The national “tea party” movement toppled its first incumbent Saturday as long-serving Sen. Robert F. Bennett was defeated at the Utah Republican Party’s nominating convention, the most powerful demonstration yet of the anti-Washington tide that is altering the nation’s political landscape. Bennett, seeking a fourth... »

By SARA KENNEDY MiamiHerald.com Sunday, 05.09.10 ST. PETERSBURG — Officials today announced activation of a unified command that will oversee preparations should an oil slick from the Gulf of Mexico foul the west coast of Florida. The latest predictions from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration indicate no impact to the western coast of Florida,... »

Interviews with surviving Deepwater Horizon rig workers show how explosions led to what may be the world’s worst oil spill By David Randall IndependentUK Sunday, 9 May 2010 An extraordinary account of how the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred emerged yesterday in leaked interviews with surviving workers from the rig. They said that a methane... »

By John D. Sutter CNN.com Palo Alto, California (CNN) — In the 1990s, a researcher named Kris Pister dreamed up a wild future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains of rice. These “smart dust” particles, as he called them, would monitor everything, acting like electronic... »

Washington’s Blog May 9, 2010 As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Federal Reserve might open up its “swap lines” again to bail out the Europeans: The Fed is considering whether to reopen a lending program put in place during the financial crisis in which it shipped dollars overseas through foreign central banks... »

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