Category Archives: Nuclear disaster
Did Fukushima fallout affect the health of U.S. infants?
Two years after the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear accident that devastated Japan, we continue to keep a close eye on the secondary impacts of radiation, not just in Asia but also here in the United States. We’ve been keeping tabs on U.S. sailors who were exposed to radiation during relief missions and reporting that radioactive fish are still turning up across the Pacific, long after the Fukushima meltdown. But [...]
Read More »It was the American Way of humanitarianism when the U.S. Navy dispatched some of its Pacific fleet toward the shores of Japan in March 2011, as news spread that a massive earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami had struck the island nation. But what the crew members of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan could not have imagined was that the real danger they would face would not be from the quake [...]
Read More »There’s been one issue that’s driven my career as a lawyer: Radiation. My first major case — more than two decades ago in southern Mississippi — involved a small, brother-owned company that cleaned out pipe from oil-patch production. It turned out that the dust — known as scale — that the Street brothers and their workers scraped out of those pipes was radioactive and making workers and even family members [...]
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 »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 »A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
Read More »It’s interesting — but also depressing — how you see the same story arc with major environmental disasters, even different types of pollution, on opposite ends of the world. A major catastrophe is the lead story in the news for several weeks. Dire impacts are predicted, but then the journalists move on and the corporate and government flaks take over, assuring us that everything is back to normal. But the [...]
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