... Strait of Hormuz, the 5th Fleet said in a statement. The New Orleans suffered a ruptured fuel tank, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 25,000 gallons (95,000 liters) of diesel fuel, Christensen said. According to the Bahrain-based ...

... Board of Regents last month questioned whether it was appropriate to accept a gift from the industry responsible for oil spills. The petroleum institute withdrew its $5 million. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Rules Committee chairman ...

... Since alcohol fuels are water soluble and biodegradable, a spill would not have the harmful environmental impact that oil spills bring. Were America to lead, the world would follow. "If all cars sold in the United States had to be flexible ...

... discerning desirable, well-being-enhancing economic activity from undesirable, well-being-reducing activity. An oil spill, for example, increases GDP because someone has to clean it up, but it obviously detracts from well-being. More ...

... horses, landowners who find endangered species on their property and those involved in litigation over the Exxon Valdez oil spill. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles ...

... New York after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Republicans also opposed provisions that would have increased taxes on oil spills by 5-cents per barrel, using the revenues to replenish the Highway Trust Fund. Republicans offered to pass the bill ...

... opposed lifting the drilling prohibitions, fearful that energy development could harm tourism and raise the risk of oil spills on beaches. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for president, opposes lifting the ban on offshore drilling ...

... billion dollars or more on a facility." The 1981 moratorium enacted out of environmental concerns in response to a massive oil spill off the Santa Barbara coast a decade earlier has prevented the Interior Department from spending money on offshore oil ...

... domestic production deduction. Cost: $478 million. Allowing commercial fishermen and others hurt by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska to average out damage awards over three years rather than taking a one-year hit from the IRS. Cost: $49 ...

... habitat right now is oil development and the potential for oil spills," Siegel said. Bruce Woods, a spokesman for the U ... companies have not demonstrated they can clean up an oil spill in broken ice. Ice jams skimmers, tears up containment ...