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My New Jersey hometown – contaminated?
June 14, 2012Garfield, like the other neighborhoods along the Passaic River that border it, was a working class factory town during the 20th century.
Read moreIn Western U.S., raging wildfires will get worse
June 13, 2012A large wildfire - sparked by lightning on June 4, and growing out of control - is burning across the Colorado mountains.
Read moreCanada, bowing to oil companies, fires ocean scientists
June 12, 2012After massive layoffs at Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, leading ocean scientists - and the environment itself - will suffer the consequences.
Read moreNew bill would remedy nation’s “dental crisis”
June 11, 2012Are your teeth a part of your body? Apparently, no. More than one-third of Americans have no dental insurance. One quarter of U.S. adults 65 and older have lost all their teeth.
Read moreEPA considers banning frog-poisoning herbicide
June 8, 2012Atrazine has been banned in the European Union since 2004, but in the U.S., approximately 80 million pounds of it are used during a year.
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