August 2014
Halliburton’s Selfish Chemical Spill
On June 28, 2014 a fire at a Halliburton-operated oil well in Monroe County Ohio caused a small-scale environmental disaster.A leak of the fracking fluid sprayed onto hot metal, igniting it and then spreading fire to the tankers that were used to store the...
Heart Medicine Warning
Niacin use is not safe
Niacin was previously believed by many to have a positive impact on heart health, by lowering low-density or LDL cholesterol while increasing high-density or HDL cholesterol. A study by the New England Journal of Medicine found that not...
North Carolina’s Toxic Water
Coal Ash Clean Up By Duke Energy Too Little Too Late
Sweeping a mess under the rug is never a good idea. When the rug is actually a fast flowing river, and the mess is a massive deposit of coal ash lying around, it is definitively an environmental disaster.
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