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GM to recycle Gulf oil booms into parts for the Chevrolet Volt Reuters Blogs (blog) About 100000 pounds of boom material that had been placed along 100 miles of the Alabama and Louisiana coasts in the wake of the BP oil spill are being … Whatever Happened to the Gulf Oil Spill?TIME (blog) General Motors Turns Gulf Coast Oil Booms Into Chevy Volt PartsGreenBiz.com Good Eats From The GulfThe Ledger South Coast Today –Christian Science Monitor –Wall Street Journal all 64 news articles »

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General Motors Turns Gulf Coast Oil Booms Into Chevy Volt Parts GreenBiz.com DETROIT, MI — Although it might be a stretch to say that something good has come of last summer's tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico …

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'Boom Blaster' triples speed of cleaning booms News-Leader.com His patented "Boom Blaster" machine now is among the most successful new ideas to emerge from the disastrous gulf oil spill cleanup effort, according to BP. … and more »

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Gulf Oil Spill Booms Will Be Recycled Into General Motors Car Parts Huffington Post Remember all those oil absorbent booms that were used to clean up the massive Gulf Coast oil spill? Despite looking like long tubes of overstuffed socks, … Big Oil's Spill Fleet May Lag Deep-Water Drilling by 3 MonthsBusinessWeek Gulf Oil Spill Will Not Affect Property Insurance MarketNational Underwriter Property And Casualty Insurance News Oil Spill Update: Poll Shows Environmental Restoration High Priority in Gulf …Audubon Magazine (blog) MiamiHerald.com –WBRC –U.S. News & World Report all 3,033 news articles »

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Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms
boombaard writes “The day before yesterday CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported that, from now on, there is a new rule in effect, which de facto bars photographers from coming within 65 feet of any deployed boom or response vessel around Deepwater Horizon (official announcement). The rule, announced by the US Coast Guard, forbids ‘photographers and reporters and anyone else from coming within 65 feet …
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Gulf oil spill: Why booms, in short supply, may not save the day
Prices jump for oil-containment booms, as communities scramble to protect their coastlines from the approaching slick from the Gulf oil spill. Moreover, booms are effective only in certain conditions, experts say.

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Despite admiral’s claims, fire booms that might have lessened oil spill not required equipment
There appears to be nothing in federal law that requires BP or any other oil company to have such booms on hand during drilling or production activities in U.S. waters, despite fire booms being labeled as a primary first-response option in federal documents.

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