Articles by John Upton
John Upton is a reporter at Climate Central.
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Is the coal industry about to wreck the Great Barrier Reef?
Australia has OK'd a coal-export plan that will dredge part of the reef area and then run thousands of coal-laden ships through it.
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Another reason to hate fracking: It could screw up your sexual health
Scientists have found endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the Colorado River and linked them to the fracking industry.
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Forget golf course views; new subdivisions are being built around farms
Developers have figured out that food is more popular than golf, so they're now wrapping housing communities around farmland instead of links.
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Fight over frac-sand mining heads to the polls
Voters in a Wisconsin town are trying to throw out the mayor and two city council members who want to allow sand mining in city limits.