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ExxonMobil subsidiary, with arm twisted behind back, agrees to treat fracking wastewater
XTO Energy will spend $20 million to treat wastewater from its fracking operations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia after it was prosecuted for Clean Water Act violations.
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Dolphins have names
But until they figure out how to name their babies Click-click-click the XIX, we're not impressed.
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Protecting Our Water from Coal Pollution
Think about this: Have you spent a day out on the water this summer? Swimming? Fishing? Boating? Well believe it or not, for decades, power plants have been allowed to dump toxic pollution into our nation’s waterways, with almost no limits. Coal plants have become by far the largest source of toxic water pollution in […]
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Solar and wind surge, but dirty energy still dominates, as this nifty chart shows
Solar energy production in the U.S. jumped by 49 percent last year, and wind energy by 16 percent, but we still have a long way to go.
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Bumblebee high-fives British guy in strange yet charming video
One more thing to miss if colony collapse disorder keeps killing all the bees: INSECT HIGH-FIVES.
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Climate change is making poison ivy go OUT OF CONTROL
"Gee, poison ivy grows too slowly, and its leaves are way too small!" -- NO ONE EVER.
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Safety last: Why a nerve-eating, cancer-causing chemical is still on the market
Thanks to a woefully outdated system for regulating chemicals, a substance called n-propyl bromide remains in widespread use, despite its known harm to humans.
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Welcome to Portage County, the fracking waste disposal capital of Ohio
A small part of Ohio has secured the ignominious honor of becoming the most successful frackwater dumping ground in the state.
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Gas fields, not cities, are America’s land of opportunity
It's too bad we can't drill our way to economic equality.
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Why won’t this cat answer my questions about climate change?
Maybe having nine lives makes you a little less worried about the baking of Alaska.
