New Mexico News

Coast Guard allows toxic chemical use on Gulf oil
The U.S. Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directive that the chemicals be used only rarely on surface waters, congressional investigators said Saturday after examining BP and government documents.
2010-07-31 22:27:18
Oil spill taints UC Berkeley's BP-funded research
BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley's research partnership with the British company, with activists and professors on the famously liberal campus calling for a severing of ties.
2010-07-31 22:26:18
3 squabbling companies must cooperate to plug well
On shore, BP, Halliburton and Transocean are engaging in a billion-dollar blame game over the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. At sea, they're depending on each other to finally plug up the environmental disaster.
2010-07-31 22:25:18
Commercial fishing reopens in southeast Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS â€” With approval from federal officials, Louisiana has reopened to commercial fishing a portion of state waters that had been closed because of the BP oil spill.
2010-07-31 22:23:18
AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar keeps oil drill ban, for now
The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico - with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface - when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana's coast, has a hull larger than a football field and can drill more than 5 miles beneath the ocean floor.
2010-07-31 22:23:18
Sack lunches often unhealthy
When it comes to the lunches our children are eating at school, there's good news and there's bad news. The good news is school cafeterias across Mississippi have worked hard in the past couple of years to rid menus of excessive fat, sugar and calories.
2010-07-31 22:30:18
Pakistan president heads to Europe amid Cameron row - BBC News
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2010-07-31 22:22:11
Prakash Shah: A nuclear-free world - Rhetoric or reality
If you thought earlier this year that a hopeful nuclear spring had arrived and our world is now closer to elimination of nuclear weapons, you would be forgiven. Last year, in Prague, the new young US President committed himself, at least rhetorically, to a vision of a world without nuclear weapons as an idea whose time had come.
2010-07-31 21:37:16
Immigration Policy Aims to Help Military Families - New York Times
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2010-07-31 21:24:20
Different angles: Using old lures in a new way
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2010-07-31 21:12:26