Environmental Must-Reads – June 18, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »It was a terrible week on Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” This narrow strip of the bayou country between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is home to more chemical plants and refineries than just about any area in the world, let alone the United States. Over the decades, these plants have been a source of both jobs and income for a state in desperate need of both. But as the nickname implies, [...]
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »You don’t need to be a rocket scientist — or a top geologist, or that matter — to understand that fracking for natural gas is not only a highly risky but a poorly thought-out process. In the half-dozen years since the boom in drilling for shale gas spread from the oil belt of Texas to new regions like the Marcellus Shale underneath Pennsylvania, we’ve watched poorly designed fracking rigs pollute [...]
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »Did you hear about the latest iPhone app? It alerts you when you find yourself under aural assault, when the decibel level where you’re at reaches the point where it could actually damage your hearing, or worse. If you’ve been paying attention to the posts here about noise pollution over the last couple of years, you probably won’t be surprised at all where the inventors headed to test their creation: [...]
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »Last weekend Bonny Schumaker from On Wings of Care — a tireless advocate who’s been our not-so-secret weapon in the war for salvation of the ecology of the Gulf Coast — went up in the skies over Bayou Corne, the small Louisiana town that’s been ravaged by a sinkhole caused by a collapsing sinkhole, an epic tale of neglect. The latest news from there is not good. The sinkhole, which was already [...]
Read More »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
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