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1. Asbury Park's Trinity and the Pope offers an elegant and tasteful tribute to cuisines of New Orleans
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY MARGARET MORGAN NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Let's face it folks. New Orleans has had more than its share of disasters starting with Katrina and now the oil swell that is dooming the entire fishing industry ...

2. Pressure builds on Obama for handling of BP oil spill crisis
(U.S./Nation)

... briefing by the president's spokesman was taken up with questions about the scope of the disaster and the response by BP. With oil still spewing from the well some 1,500 meters under where the Deepwater ...

3. N.J. should pay close attention to Greece, where a trillion bucks ain’t quite enough
(Opinion/Commentary)

... authored several books, the last on Energy for the 21st Century published by M.E. Sharpe. ALSO BY ROY NERSESIAN The Tragedy of British Petroleum is more than an environmental disaster Greece and ...

4. How to end of food temptation (my Starbucks ‘aha' moment)
(Health/Healthquest)

...  Do you think that after your plane ride you'd be happy to get an inner tube and float down the river? Of course you wouldn't. You've seen that the river spells disaster. You now have a negative association ...

5. Did New Jersey's winter storms damage your home? Here's IRS help
(Money/Economy)

... More than 5,000 New Jersey residents filed with FEMA for disaster aid. More help may be available from Uncle Sam in the form of casualty loss deductions that New Jersey homeowners can claim on their ...

6. Weak oversight of site remediation helps N.J. stay polluted
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and public safety, and fails to have oversight - disaster happens. We are concerned that the LSRP program in New Jersey which privatizes toxic cleanups without proper oversight will end up in disaster ...

7. The Tragedy of British Petroleum is more than an environmental disaster
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY ROY NERSESIAN COMMENTARY Commentators are skewering British Petroleum for the environmental havoc being wrought in the Gulf of Mexico. The company's past environmental sins are being brought to ...

8. Common Sense
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... paying?) state jobs is what makes politicians powerful. Top down management, without the support and practical expertise of the people working in the classroom, will be a disaster. Mr. Schundler and our ...

9. Michael Brune: There is no safe way to drill for oil in oceans
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Schwarzenegger, who said he no longer supports a plan to allow limited drilling for oil off his state's coast. They're right. There is no safe way to drill for oil in oceans. This disaster is an impetus ...

10. Gulf oil spill couldn’t have come at a better time for those against offshore drilling
(U.S./Nation)

... worst environmental and economic disaster since the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled millions of gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. As people scramble to stem the oily tide on ...

11. Holt, Pallone introduce ‘Big Oil bailout prevention act’ to protect taxpayers
(U.S./Nation)

... it shouldn't spill over to taxpayers." "The Deepwater Horizon disaster and the massive effort to contain the spill are likely to cost billions, and we must make sure that taxpayer dollars are protected," ...

12. Disaster!
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Christie's formula for budget "success": Slash health-care, trash public education, eliminate 70% of the funding for public libraries, engineer 25-50% fare increases in NJ Transit fares, BUT CUT taxes ...

13. Wake up, N.J.: Self-regulating leads to disaster
(Opinion/Commentary)

... led to disaster. The failure of government to regulate puts not only the environment at risk but public health and safety as well. In New Jersey, we have privatized site remediation. The government ...

14. Rutgers disaster expert Lee Clarke says BP “overpromised,” which led to Gulf oil spill
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of Sociology at Rutgers University. Clarke is also the author of books on disaster preparedness — and the lack of it. Clarke commented May 2 on the oil pouring into the ocean after an explosion damaged ...

15. President Obama cancels trip to New Jersey
(N.J./State)

... called the oil spill a "potentially unprecedented environmental disaster," during remarks Sunday in Louisiana. Noah Cohen may be reached at ncohen@newjerseynewsroom.com  ...

16. Obama tries to calm coastal states on offshore drilling
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... no additional offshore oil drilling will be approved until the Interior Department investigates the cause of the disaster. The statement came as the mood at public hearings in New Jersey and elsewhere ...

17. ‘Sons of Perdition’ documentary: A Tribeca Film Festival movie review
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  Bruce Barlow, Joe Broadbent and Sam Zitting are one step away from disaster on the streets of Utah and Arizona, and just down the block from Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) and his well-off family in the ...

18. N.J. offshore drilling lacks support at federal hearing
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to the damage to the state's economy and environment if a disaster similar to that in the Gulf occurred off the nearby coast. "The only oil we want on our beaches is Coppertone," said Jeff Tittel, executive ...

19. Bufferfly farming on the rise in Africa
(World/International)

... Okala. At the Second Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Kenya earlier this month, Kenya Forestry and Wildlife Ministry chief public communications officer, Mary Ngaruma told IPS ...

20. Nuclear power making a comeback in U.S.
(U.S./Nation)

... groundwater. The Vermont case was a reminder of more serious nuclear accidents, such as the partial core meltdown of the Three Mile Island plant and the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Significant cost overruns ...