Articles by John Upton
John Upton is a reporter at Climate Central.
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EPA will let frackers keep on dumping chemicals into the sea
A new rule will just require the companies to tell the government which chemicals they're dumping.
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Coal chemical spills in West Virginia, leaving 300,000 without tap water
A supplier to the coal industry spilled thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical into a river, poisoning local water supplies.
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At least EPA is doing a little something to help bees
The agency still won't outlaw bee-killing pesticides, but it is funding research into reducing use of chemicals that harm pollinators.
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Pesticide in frozen food sickens hundreds in Japan
Perhaps 1,000 people in Japan have been sickened by insecticide-laced foods, and more than 6 million packages of frozen food have been recalled.