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Get a Gulf cut – May 2010

Southern Oregon University's Ecological Center of the Siskiyous is encouraging locals to get a haircut and send their locks to a nonprofit that's making oil-absorbing booms using the hair. By Hannah Guzik Posted May. 20, 2010 at 2:00 AM Today marks the one-month...

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Hair of the dog helps tackle oil spill – May 2010

THE hair of the dog has long been touted as a fool-proof remedy, but it has never been used to deal with a multi-million-barrel oil slick. Now three dog-groomers from south Oxfordshire are bagging up the trimmings from their canine clients and sending them to the Gulf...

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Weatherford hair helps soak up oil spill – May 2010

Say what? How can boxes of leftover hair come to the aid of one of the worst U.S. oil spill in history? The answer is, hair absorbs natural skin oils, that’s why we wash it. So why not petroleum? It’s really not such a hair-brained idea. Weatherford Sport Clips...

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Oil spill could be ‘hairy’ situation – May 2010

For several weeks, Americans have watched anxiously as oil leaking from the catastrophic explosion of a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico edges closer and closer to the Louisiana coast. The oil spill began with an explosion and fire April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon...

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Haircut today, greener tomorrow – May 2010

Bad news continues to flow more than three weeks after a massive oil-rig explosion 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, fueling collective senses of not just dread but frustration. Yet many Americans looking for a way to help counter this environmental (and economic)...

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Pet groomer collects fur, hair to use on oil spill – May 2010

MERRIMACK – Jack’s pretty doggone psyched about the nice haircut he got last week. The handsome yellow Labrador from Henniker was trimmed down, his blonde coat shiny and short. Perfect for spring. Little does Jack know that his shed fur – which ordinarily would end up...

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