Toxic Exposure
Scientists show BP oil spill is harming human lungs
Scientists at the University of Alabama Birmingham have completed a study that leads them to believe that the BP oil spill has been harmful to human lungs.No shit! Gulf residents have been complaining about "BP Syndrome" for quite some time now.Ten ...
Nebraska Oil & Gas Commissioners Shamed After Town Hall Member Asks Them to Drink Fracking Water
Without raising his voice or losing his cool, Tom Osbourne strolled into a Nebraska Oil & Gas committee meeting determined to make a difference. Once you watch the video, you will see he did just that and stole the show in the process.The commissioners of...
The Nuclear Reactor That Will Change the World
Indian engineers have designed a new type of nuclear reactor that will be safer, smaller, cleaner, cheaper and last longer than its disgraced predecessors.The reactor being planned at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai will be the first operation...
What the “frack”: Flammable Water
Water: essential to life, multi-useful, and... flammable?Fire water. What an oxymoron. Residents of areas rich in natural gas have noticed that their tap water is able to catch on fire. How does one find this out, you may ask? Well, that's all part of the ...
We Haven’t Heard the Last of the Keystone XL Pipeline
In November, the U.S. Senate narrowly failed to pass the hotly debated bill that would have finally seen the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a measure that had been approved in the House just a week before.
Keystone XL Pipeline
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Algae Attacks
Four hundred thousand people in Ohio are without clean drinking water. Their water, which is sourced from Lake Erie, is contaminated with microcystin. This dangerous toxin is the by-product of a particular blue-green algae. If the water were to be ingested, it...
No Respect For Clean Water
America's 67th largest city is without clean water.The Elephant in the room
The number one cause of fresh water pollution in the United States is agricultural runoff. Animal manure and fertilizers contain high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus. When that ...
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...
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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California’s Undrinkable Water
The state of California is in the midst of a drought and sure could use some water right now. Too bad at least 100 of the state's aquifers may have been contaminated by energy companies.
What's the story?
Fracking is a controversial technique used to extract...