Articles by John Upton
John Upton is a reporter at Climate Central.
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Fracking company finds new way to screw over the environment
A subsidiary of fracking giant Chesapeake Energy is being fined $3.2 million for water pollution caused by sloppy construction practices.
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China doesn’t want our genetically modified corn
China has rejected a third of America's corn exports this year because they harbored GM varieties not approved for sale in the country.
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The Obama administration is undermining its own plans for carbon capture
New coal power plants will have to capture their CO2, but they'll be able to sell it to oil companies to be pumped down into old wells to increase oil production.
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Russia begins offshore drilling in Arctic
The rig made famous by Greenpeace's Arctic 30 is now pumping oil, the first step in Russia's plans to drill the hell out of the Arctic.