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Biggest oil spill?
BP plans asset sale of $30 billion
However, the company, facing public anger over the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, tempted further ire by denying it needed cultural change and by offsetting the costs of the spill, including expected fines, against its taxes.
Your article claims this is the largest oil spill in US history: catastrophic as it is, this is not the worst oil spill in the US.
That accolade belongs to the ‘Lakeview Gusher’ in California, which flowed for 16 months between May 1910 and September 1911, releasing an estimated 9 million barrels of crude oil – about 283 million Imperial gallons (378 million US gall).
W.B. Our story should have used worst instead of biggest. We fixed it in a subsequent version: GBU Editor
BP chief executive Tony Hayward poses for the media outside BP’s headquarters in London July 27, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Asbestos banned?
EnPro unit files for bankruptcy over asbestos claims
Asbestos, once widely used in manufacturing, has been banned by the U.S. government after it was proven to cause cancer, often in people who were exposed by breathing in asbestos particles.
You incorrectly stated in this article that asbestos has been banned in the U.S.
Please print a correction on this immediately. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter.
Sarah L.
Thank you. We corrected: GBU Editor
A woman covers her face as she walks near the site of a steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan during the morning commute in New York July 19, 2007. Debris from an explosion of an aging steam pipe, that occured July 18, contained asbestos, New York authorities said on Thursday, but no airborne samples of the dangerous mineral fiber were detected. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Oil spill victims?
Over 300 dead birds are likely Gulf spill victims
LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) – More than 300 sea birds, nearly 200 turtles and 19 dolphins have been found dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast during the first five weeks of BP’s huge oil spill off Louisiana, wildlife officials reported on Monday.
When did birds start becoming victims? They’re birds, not humans. You people are getting wackier every day.
A. B.
I’m fine with using that word. They sure look like victims to me: GBU Editor
An oil soaked brown pelican is prepped before being bathed at Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, May 15, 2010. REUTERS/Hans Deryk
To A.B. — You know what’s wacky? People who are so far removed from reality that they believe they can exist outside the ecosystem.
When will a majority realize we’re all in this together? How many huge man-made disasters will it take to shake you shrink-wrapped, anti-nature rubes out of your denial? I wish you’d all pile into space shuttles and set up a sterile station on the moon where you wouldn’t have to worry about what’s a victim and what’s not.
When humans turn into machines that don’t rely on clean air, clean water & a sustainable food-chain, then we can scoff at the mass annihilation of our fellow living organisms. Until then, it’s a matter of watching the pyramid crumble beneath our feet.
It didn’t sink
BP halts video of leaking pipe, blames dirty lens
On Thursday BP said it was making progress on plugging the ruptured well as U.S. government figures showed the disaster has eclipsed the previous worst U.S. oil spill caused by the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989.
Your article states that Exxon Valdez ‘sank’. This is false.
The tanker struck Bligh Reef and its cargo hold ruptured, causing the spill – but it never sank.
The ship is still in service today under another name.
F.W.
We corrected: GBU Editor
Green news on reuters.com
wanted to know why the Environment tab is no longer available.
I am very interested in the Reuters environment issues and would like to see it come back.
Marcelle
I have been using the environmental section of your website to keep up on issues that are important to me. I can’t seem to find it any more. Have you relocated the section or eliminated it?
I liked coming to the Reuters.com home page scanning the news and then linking to the environment page by clicking on news in the left hand column and then clicking on environment. This allowed me to scan the headlines of the the day and then go on to my topic of interest.
I understand that you have to make business decisions when reviewing the content on your site. I am a business person that understands if you are not getting enough impressions you are not serving you advertisers. But as a news organization it is also your responsibility to publish on the important topics in our society. I contend that in the long run environmental/green issues will be the news that will be of the highest priority. We are faced with global warming and scarcity of resources issues that are only going to expand.
I agree! Economics is certainly important, but issues like Environment need to be front and centre. I don’t get the strategy behind this….
They joined…
China wants importers to cover some emission costs
China, like the United States, did not join the 17-year-old Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants linked to climate change problems.
There is a significant factual error in this article. China has signed and ratified the Kyoto treaty, along with much of the world, the United States has not.
J.L.
Yes. We corrected: GBU Editor
An airplane flies near a gas flare from a factory at Keihin industrial zone in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, in a 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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