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Problems in Africa kick off two day conference on international affairs listen
03/28/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Africa, USF, St. Pete, militarization, Nigeria, St. Petersburg, oil, South Africa
Many countries in Africa are facing famine, poverty and civil war. A panel of experts dove into the issues facing African nations during the first day of USF St. Petersburg’s Conference on International Affairs.
Countries like Mali and Libya face fierce fighting between groups in power and opposition forces. The issue has left a divide among people who think the U.S. should provide military intervention and those who think the militarization of nations should be avoided. Bill Felice, is...
Be the first to commentNOAA Fisheries representative promotes RESTORE Act to help Gulf after BP disaster listen
11/10/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Oil, oil spills, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, BP oil disaster
The Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout last year was one of the most damaging events for Gulf of Mexico ecosystems. Wednesday night Eckerd College hosted a lecture about the impact of the oil disaster by Cathy Tortorici, the Gulf of Mexico Regional Ecosystem Program Director for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
During the height of the disaster, NOAA estimates 950 miles of coastline came into contact with oil. Wi...
Be the first to commentTampa activists demand cleaner air rules from the EPA listen
08/24/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Smog, EPA, Sierra Club, public health, air pollution, pollution, regulations, coal, Oil, gasoline
Environmentalists rallied for clean air this morning in downtown Tampa. Their demand for less smog goes hand in hand with their call for reducing the rising rates of asthma in children.
About twenty protesters gathered around the base of a giant inflatable hand in Gaslight Park. The hand was holding an asthma inhaler, which for the activists represents the negative health effects of breathing in too much smog from fossil...
Be the first to commentGeologist: fossil fuels likely to remain dominant energy source for US listen
04/20/11 Matthew CimitileWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear energy, oil, energy
Despite last year’s BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, global energy demand will continue to make fossil fuels the essential energy source for the coming decades. That’s the conclusion of a geologist who spoke last week at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science.
Nearly 19 million barrels of oil is consumed in the United States each day. According to the Institute of Energy Research, this staggering number meets 37 percent of the nation’s energy demand. Peter Rose ...
Be the first to commentObama proposes nuclear as one way to reduce dependence on imported oil listen
03/30/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Barack Obama, Libya, energy, nuclear power, oil, biofuels, CAFE
Seeking to show the public he understands the burden of rising gas prices, President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal of reducing U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025, and vowed to break through the political gridlock that has stymied similar initiatives for decades.
Obama touted a series of initiatives - some new, but many he's previously announced - that he said would boost domestic oil production, increase the use of biofuels and natural gas, and make vehicles more energy efficient. ...
Be the first to commentWhat Do The Recent Changes Announced In Cuba Mean For US Cuba Relations?
09/23/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Cuba, Al Fox, Johannes Werner, embargo, co-ops, oil
Cuba is calling workers across the island to special meetings so labor leaders can brief them on half a million government layoffs coming in the next six months and suggest ways that those fired can make a living.
Cuba announced two weeks ago that it would lay off 500,000 workers by March and loosen state controls on private enterprise so that many of those fired can find new jobs. It said it would also beef up the tax code and revamp state pay scales to better reward high job performance....
1 commentsSenator Nelson on Gulf Oil Disaster listen
06/25/10 Mark AndersonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Offshore Drilling, Oil, Gulf Oil Spill
Florida’s senior Senator Bill Nelson gave a press conference this morning in Tampa. The biggest concern he has is the ongoing oil disaster that is damaging Florida’s environment and economy.
Senator Nelson is sounding the alarm: the gulf oil disaster is going to get worse, how much worse no one can predict. But with hurricane season here and a relief well months away, the damage is piling up.
On the subject of a final solution to the disaster, Nelson is confident that BP’s strategy of...
Be the first to commentRep. Kathy Castor opposes drilling off coast of Florida listen
03/31/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: oil drilling, Oil, kathy castor, Barack Obama, Bill Nelson, oil drilling near Florida's coast
Unlike Senator Nelson, Tampa-area U.S. Representative Kathy Castor opposes Obama’s offshore drilling plan.
1 commentsJuan Cole on U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil listen
04/06/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Foreign policy, Islam, oil
The first chapter of Juan Cole’s new Book, Engaging the Muslim World is called “The Struggle for Islamic Oil.” In it, he writes about U.S. foreign policy and oil.
He quotes John McCone, who said in the early 1970s that the relationship of the North Atlantic States to Islamic oil reached a momentous turning point when Arab oil exporters boycotted the U.S. and Netherlands in June 1967.
Be the first to commentNew Interior Secretary rejects plan for offshore oil, gas drilling listen
02/10/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Offshore Drilling, Oil, Barack Obama, Bush administration
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has rejected a Bush administration plan to open vast waters off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and gas drilling.
Speaking to reporters on a conference call, the former Colorado senator blasted the process with which the previous administration went about making such a decision.
Salazar said that despite the enormous sweep of the proposal to open up as many as 300-million acres to oil and gas leasing, the Bush administration’s notice called for the ...
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