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Florida Rep Rick Kriseman still wants special Legislative session on drilling and energy listen

06/07/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Rick Kriseman, BP, BP oil spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Florida Legislature, special session, oil drilling

Beginning last month there was a push by state Representative Rick Kriseman and others to hold a special legislative session on drilling and energy fueled by the ongoing BP oil leak disaster.

On Saturday Kriseman, a Democrat from St. Petersburg, reiterated his calls for a special session that co...

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Azalea neighbors irate about response from Raytheon, Crist, Foster, and DEP listen

06/07/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Raytheon, St. Petersburg, Rick Kriseman, Charlie Justice, Charlie Crist, DEP, BP, BP oil spill, Gulf Oil Spill

The BP oil blowout isn’t the only environmental catastrophe some Pinellas residents have to worry about. People in the Azalea neighborhood of northwest St. Petersburg have been dealing with an underground plume of toxins coming from a nearby Raytheon plant. On Saturday morning, about 60 residents gathered with state legislators such as state [Senator Charlie Justice](http://ww...

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Dr. Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground, on hurricanes & oil listen

05/27/10 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: BP oil spill, Hurricane season, Weather Underground, Jeff Masters, BP

Tuesday marks the start of hurricane season, and as you’ve heard, climate scientists say numerous factors are coming together to make for a busy one this time around.

With millions of gallons of oil hemorrhaging into the Gulf each day, forecasters are at a loss as to what all that crude might do to an approaching storm, and how the coast would fare.

Dr. Jeff Masters is co-founder and director of meteorology for Weather Underground. He recently wrote abou...

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Top Bay Area Attorneys Discuss the Oil Disaster In The Gulf

05/26/10 Robert Lorei
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Tags: BP, Steve Yerrid, Carl Nelson, Fowler White Boggs, lawsuits, dispersants, maritime law

Coming up today on Radioactivity: Two prominent local attorneys will discuss the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But first let's hear some provocative comments from former Clinton advisor James Carville about the Obama administration's handling of the crisis.

James Carville appearing this morning on ABC's Good Morning America.

With the oil disaster still occurring in the Gulf we're joined now by two local attorneys who have strong opinions about what to do to address the crisis. Ou...

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Mad In Mississippi listen

05/17/10 Tom Baur
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Tags: BP, Deepwater Horizon

They’re Mad in Mississippi.

50 miles south of Ocean Springs, Mississippi BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion un-corked a demon in the Gulf of Mexico. Minute by minute, gigantic plumes of death enlarge as thousands of gallons per minute of toxic chemicals erupt and feed them. All along the gulf coast the BP Blowout has ignited fear and anger.

Disaster, destruction, and despair are just a few of thos...

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USF Researchers return from oil leak site listen

05/17/10 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: BP oil spill, William Hogarth, BP, Deepwater Horizon

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that enormous oil plumes have formed in the Gulf of Mexico, causing some scientists to think the leak is far worse than officials currently estimate. One is as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick.

Meanwhile, today USF researchers have returned from a ten-day Gulf expedition. While they say it will take at least a week to analyze their findings, Marine Science Dean William Hogarth says weathered oil from the nearly month-old leak i...

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Rouson cautious about special Legislative session on oil drilling listen

05/14/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Darryl Rouson, Charlie Crist, BP, BP oil spill, Gulf Oil Spill, special session

Governor Charlie Crist has said he wants to call a special session of the Florida Legislature to discuss oil drilling. The Legislature could place an amendment on November’s ballot that, if passed by citizens, would forever ban fossil fuel drilling in state waters.

Rep. Darryl Rouson (D), who represents parts of St. Petersburg in the state Legislature, told WMNF he supports a constitutional ban on drilling in Florida waters, but thinks agreement should be reached before taking the time to...

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"Seize BP" holds rally in St. Petersburg, and across the US listen

05/13/10 Joshua Lee Holton
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Tags: BP oil spill, BP, Gulf Oil Spill, St. Pete for Peace, protest, protesters

Yesterday, activists in St. Petersburg protested BP’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf. The protest was one of a score of demonstrations that took place across the country that insist that BP use its billions of dollars in profits to clean up the spill and pay for economic damages associated with the 4 million gallon leak.

Passing drivers honked their horns in support,...

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Crist meets with BP in St Pete on oil disaster listen

05/12/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Charlie Crist, BP, BP oil spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Coast Guard, St. Petersburg

Gov. Charlie Crist has asked BP for more than thirty-four million dollars so the state can cover the costs of a marketing blitz to convince visitors the state’s beaches are still clean.

Crist met with representatives from BP, the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies at the St. Petersburg unified command center this afternoon. But Crist says BP has not responded to his request to fund the [VISIT FLO...

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Congressional committee grills rig execs listen

05/12/10 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: BP oil spill, Transocean, Halliburton, BP, Lamar Mackay, Lois Capps, Henry Waxman, Peter Welch

Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce asked the heads of four corporations what went wrong at the Deepwater Horizon rig site on April 20. Their answer, for the most part, was that they don’t know. Rep. Henry Waxman grilled them on an equipment test failure that had occurred just hours ahead of the rig explosion. [U.S. Rep. Peter Welch](http://w...

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