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A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
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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.
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A sound plan to protect eardrums, peace and quiet — and music — in New Orleans
There’s a welcome new sound in New Orleans — the sound of citizens banding together to fight for positive change, to make America’s most colorful city a better place to live, and to visit. In recent months, I’ve told you frequently about a kind of pollution here that doesn’t get its due: Noise pollution. The problem — I must once again reiterate — is not the city’s iconic, long-established music [...]
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