Environment
Today in women’s history: Three Mile Island nuclear reactor overheats
March 28, 2014Since the 1979 accident, there has been an ongoing controversy over whether the radiation released at Three Mile Island led to an increase of cancer and infant mortality in the surrounding areas.
Read moreAfter collision, Texas ship channel awash in oil
March 25, 2014The collision sent 170,000 gallons of oil into the body of water that connects the Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico and deals with up to 80 vessels per day. The oil quickly spread into...
Read moreU.S. covered up massive PCB contamination at Okinawa base
March 25, 2014U.S. military officials did not report the contamination to Japanese authorities, and did nothing to alleviate the contamination.
Read moreDioxins unearthed at U.S. base in Okinawa stir furor
March 24, 2014"They were 55-gallon and, on occasion, 30-gallon drums. You could smell the chemicals and a few were stenciled with 'Defoliant' in white with 'Property KAB Special Services."
Read moreFracking encroaches on Pennsylvania forests
March 21, 2014Five activists were arrested Mar. 20 in Pennsylvania's Tiadaghton State Park for protesting fracking operations there. Blocking the only access point to a wellpad, they chained themselves to barrels of concrete.
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