Articles by John Upton
John Upton is a reporter at Climate Central.
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![One of the petcoke piles in Chicago]()
![One of the petcoke piles in Chicago]()
Chicagoans fight the Kochs and their petcoke
The city stopped short of banning piles of petcoke, a tar-sands refining waste. Now activists and officials are trying to get rid of the piles with lawsuits.
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![Monsanto protest sign]()
![Monsanto protest sign]()
Is Monsanto’s Roundup linked to a deadly kidney disease?
Farm workers on sugar and rice plantations have been hit by a mysterious kidney ailment. Recent research suggests the herbicide glyphosate could be connected to the epidemics.
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![Greenpeace activism in the Netherlands]()
![Greenpeace activism in the Netherlands]()
Greenpeace activists arrested — again — for trying to block Russia’s Arctic oil activities
The same protestors who were jailed in Russia last year got themselves arrested once more, this time for trying to block an oil delivery to a Dutch port.
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![Lynchburg train derailment]()
![Lynchburg train derailment]()
Oil train derails in Virginia, explodes, pollutes river
Meanwhile, the U.S. government still hasn't forced the railroad industry to get rid of the most dangerous, puncture-prone railcars.
