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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Vex and the Single Hull South Korea to outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in 2011		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:42 AM on 07 Jan 2008 South Korea has announced that it will outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in its waters by January 2011, four years earlier than its original goal, due to the country's largest oil spill in December. The December spill dumped about 2.7 million gallons of oil some five miles off the country's coast when a barge struck a massive single-hulled tanker, puncturing it in three places. As of ...
Topics: international politics, news, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

Suin' 'Bout the Schlock of the Bay San Francisco sues over oil spill, South Korea spill cleanup ongoing		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:54 PM on 11 Dec 2007 The city of San Francisco has sued the owners of the container ship that hit the iconic Bay Bridge last month and blackened the bay with 58,000 gallons of oil. The "wholly avoidable" accident caused "more injury to the San Francisco Bay Area than we can yet begin to fathom," says the suit, which seeks damages for costs ranging from overtime ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, oil, San Francisco, South Korea, water pollution (all these topics)

Can You Believe That Ship? Barge collides with tanker, spilling 2.7 million gallons of oil off South Korean coast		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:50 AM on 07 Dec 2007 A barge collided with a massive oil tanker this morning about five miles off the coast of South Korea, damaging the tanker's single hull in three places and resulting in an oil spill estimated at about 2.7 million gallons. The over four-mile-long oil slick is slowly making its way toward what were once probably some very nice beaches and a national m ...
Topics: news, oceans, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

Also, Could You Paint Tom Sawyer's Fence? South Korea ships oil to North Korea in nuke-shutdown deal		05 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Also, Could You Paint Tom Sawyer's Fence? South Korea ships oil to North Korea in nuke-shutdown deal South Korea will ship oil to North Korea next week as part of a six-nation agreement reached in February that trades energy aid for a shutdown of the North's main nuclear facility. Funny story, though: North Korea hasn't shut down the reactor. But it totally will! It promises! In talks on Tuesday, North Korean ...
Topics: energy, news, North Korea, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

They Got Seoul But They're Not Eco-Soldiers South Korean Supreme Court rules in favor of eco-damaging seawall		23 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
They Got Seoul But They're Not Eco-Soldiers South Korean Supreme Court rules in favor of eco-damaging seawall In a bitter defeat for a worldwide coalition of environmentalists, the South Korean Supreme Court has ruled that construction can continue on what will become, if finished as planned, the world's longest seawall. Begun in 1991 and about 90 percent complete, the 20-mile-long wall will convert over 99,000 acres of wetland ...
Topics: news, South Korea, wildlife (all these topics)

Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting		09 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate partnership will kick off this Wednesday in Australia. The six participating nations -- Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. -- will emphasize the transfer of clean technologies to developing countries, in ...
Topics: Australia, China, climate, India, Japan, news, South Korea, United States (all these topics)

Daewoozy		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Daewoozy An automobile company lobbying for stricter emissions standards? It might sound like an unlikely tale, but not when the bottom line is at stake. General Motors is pressuring the South Korean government to impose tougher standards for diesel emissions than it is currently considering. Here's why: The automaker is trying to increase the competitiveness of its Korean affiliate, G ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, South Korea (all these topics)

True Grit		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
True Grit For the third year in a row, massive dust storms from China have blown into South Korea, closing schools, canceling flights, and creating a run on facemasks and respiratory medication. The storms are the result of severe desertification in China, where the Gobi Desert grew by 20,000 square miles from 1994 to 1999; the desertification stems from overfarming, overgrazing, and deforestation, among ...
Topics: air pollution, China, desertification, South Korea (all these topics)

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