Did you know that char-grilled hamburgers are polluting the earth? That is the conclusion of a study by UC-Riverside, which said that a single hamburger cooked at a restaurant puts more particulates into the air than a diesel truck that travels 143 miles on the interstate...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Weathered oil in the form of tar balls has washed ashore on some Louisiana beaches from Gulf waters churned by Hurricane Isaac and a state coastal official says it is likely from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster.
Garret Graves, a coastal adviser to Gov...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Japanese shipping company has been placed on probation for three years and ordered to pay a $500,000 fine for obstruction and violating a federal pollution control act.
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says U.S. District Judge Lance M...