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West Virginia chemical spill causes state of emergency

January 10, 2014 By John Case

More than 100,000 homes, businesses and hospitals in nine counties around Charleston, W. Va., are without water due to a chemical leak into the Elk River, which provides water for an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 people.

North Dakota oil train explosion is another harsh lesson

January 3, 2014 By Blake Skylar

In what was a devastating end to 2013, on Dec. 30, just a mile outside Casselton, N.D., a train carrying oil collided with another train, producing a series of explosions that left 10 cars ablaze.

Sewage overruns Gaza

December 19, 2013 By Peter Korman

For over a month the streets of the largest Palestinian city, Gaza, have been overrun with sewage and now are being covered with icy flood waters.

Unhappy International Migrants Day

December 19, 2013 By Emile Schepers

Migrants, who arrive by the thousands in Lampedusa fleeing war and insecurity in Africa/Syria, are shown being stripped naked and hosed down by authorities.

A year after Newtown, more shootings, more gun profits

December 19, 2013 By Susan Webb

"Unless there is a sustained public movement to curb guns as a source of profit, the corporate profit drive will continue to push guns to make money."