Category «Waters of the Gulf of Mexico»

Trump to spread out gulf waters to grease drilling

Exxon states its investment is making more than 45,000 construction and manufacturing jobs with salaries varying from $75,000 to $125,000. Exxon Chief executive officer Darren Forest stated Trump’s agenda of deregulation “enhanced” his company’s investments. Shortly before departing office, former The President secured much more offshore areas from drilling, issuing a professional order in December …

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Uncharted waters: restoring the deep gulf fouled by bp’s deepwater horizon spill

"We are trying to behave that we have never done before," stated Erik Cordes, a Temple College barrier expert that has studied the corals broken through the spill and labored around the government’s restoration plans. "We’re in uncharted waters here." The continental shelf drops dramatically, about 25 miles from the Louisiana coast. Miles below, there’s …

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Gulf waters are freakishly warm, that could mean explosive springtime storms – the washington publish

Research printed within the journal Geophysical Research Letters in December found: “The warmer (cooler) the Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures, the greater (less)  hail and tornadoes occur during March–May within the southern U.S.” Victor Gensini, a professor of meteorology in the College of DuPage, agreed the warm Gulf could intensify storms this spring but cautioned that …

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