Environment
SW Florida residents say “No fracking”
May 6, 2014Environmental activists and oil drilling opponents have many unanswered questions concerning several aspects of this type of operation.
Read moreOil train explosion rattles and poisons Virginia town
May 2, 2014Oil trains throughout the U.S. are literally crashing and burning. One could easily produce a long list of such disasters from last year alone. Another incident can now be added to that list.
Read moreFirefighters battle cancer as well as flames in toxic homes
May 1, 2014Firefighters can smell smoke on their hair and skin for days after a fire; chemicals get into skin through the pores.
Read moreKeystone XL pipeline protest draws thousands
May 1, 2014The $5.4 billion project, which represents the dirtiest, least efficient kind of oil development, would pump dirty tarsands oil from Alberta, Canada to Texas refineries.
Read moreToday in eco-history: Chernobyl disaster announced to public
April 28, 2014On this day in 1986, continuing high levels of radiation emerging from the Chernobyl disaster led Soviet authorities to publically announce the accident.
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