Oil From Bugs

Bed bug batty? New treatment for pesky parasites deadly, expensive
SACRAMENTO - A new way to kill bed bugs using a blast of heated air is turning out to be the weapon of choice for many pest control companies — but it doesn’t come cheap.

Published Sep 1, 2010.
Read more: News10 Sacramento

Study: Microbes Consuming Gulf Oil Plume
A newly discovered microbe is thought to be fueling cleanup of the oil plume created in the Gulf of Mexico by the explosion of the Beyond Petroleum-owned Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers.

Published Aug 27, 2010.
Read more: The Daily Californian

Lake Vista is bubbling
A caller to the Daily News Thursday said the water was “boiling out of Lake Vista” and suggested that there might be some old rusting barrels under the surface leaking some noxious rising gas.

Published Aug 22, 2010.
Read more: The Daily News