Articles by John Upton
John Upton is a reporter at Climate Central.
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Pesticides are blowing into California’s mountains, poisoning frogs
Agricultural chemicals are accumulating in frog tissue in the Sierra Nevadas -- the same kinds of chemicals that are sprayed over crops in California's Central Valley.
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Gulf of Mexico dead zone is big, but not record-breaking big
A 5,800-square-mile area of the Gulf of Mexico is dead this year, starved of oxygen. That's terrible, but not as terrible as had been feared.
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Leak-prone oil tankers to remain on American train tracks for now
The Obama administration has announced another delay in better regulating the type of disaster-prone rail cars that exploded in Quebec earlier this month.
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Leaked EPA document raises questions about fracking pollution
The EPA doesn't seem very interested in finding out whether fracking pollutes groundwater, according to a report in the L.A. Times.
