Old plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the recent catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico will be re-purposed as car parts in the Chevrolet Volt beginning next year. Months after the spill, volunteers and cleanup crews began discharging hundreds of miles of plastic booms to contain and remove the noxious substance from Gulf waters. General Motors has found a way to reuse the old boom material, which will keep roughly 100 miles of the oil-soaked…

According to a news segment from CNN, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System — an 800-mile oil transport tube which carries roughly 650,000 barrels of oil a day across the virgin Alaskan wilderness — could be another potential disaster waiting to happen. The pipeline is managed by Alyeska, a company that BP owns 46 percent of. Built over 30 years ago, the pipeline is now considered an tremendous environmental hazard as allegations arise that BP…

In 1998, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assigned one of its top scientists to the University of Georgia, partly to investigate the probability of an offshore drilling rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico and how to respond if such a disaster occurred. Research Microbiologist David Lewis expressed concern that a rig explosion could damage the Gulf stream and scatter contaminants in deep ocean currents to environmentally…

BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has shown no signs of stopping or even slowing for that matter, and ocean life is becoming increasingly more threatened by each passing minute. To add insult to injury, the inept oil company has actually resorted to burning the oil ridden areas in an attempt to eradicate the problem. The issue, however, is not just the oil which remains in the water. There are tons of species of ocean animals that are put at…

This fall, BP plans to involve itself in yet another potentially hazardous oil exploit. Utilizing a high-tech drill from a gravel island in the Beaufort Sea, the company hopes to reach two miles deep, turn and bore another six to eight miles horizontally to eventually tap an oil reservoir in federal waters. The ban established on new deep water drilling and drilling in Arctic waters, brought on by BP’s perpetual oil nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, terminated…