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Health risks demand a moratorium on fracking
Fracking in New York State. [2014, Les Stone]A rapidly growing body of research demonstrates that hydraulic fracturing poses dangers not only to the environment but to people’s health. Once...
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Claire McCaskill’s doomed love affair with Keystone XL
Today Claire McCaskill did it. She voted with all Senate Republicans and nine Senate Democrats to pass the House’s Keystone XL authorization. Of course, nine Democrats won’t be enough to override a...
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Keystone pipeline vote: corporate money trumps public good
The fossil-fuel industry is reaping the rewards of its three-quarters of a billion dollar investment to secure a Republican controlled congress. But they weren’t just buying Republicans—in a spirit of...
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STL landfill fire nears collision with radioactive waste: What’s next?
Westlake Landfill, St. Louis MO What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump? St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In North St. Louis County, near...
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Teaching the reality of climate change, one classroom at a time
You wouldn’t think that it would be controversial for a journalism professor to come to high schools in the Midwest to discuss his reporting on current issues in science. And it wasn’t. Justin...
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Rex Tillerson: What does he really think about climate change? Who knows?
Share/BookmarkDonald Trump’s pick of Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State sends a chilling message about the new administration’s commitment to addressing the challenges of a warming planet. Who is Rex...
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“A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists”
Share/BookmarkAt the annual gathering of The American Geophysical Union in fall of 2016, more than twenty-three thousand earth and space scientists from around the globe met to present their research...
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Tracking Trump’s regulatory rollbacks: so far, so bad
While Donald Trump distracts us with bellicose pronouncements and internecine White House wars, his henchmen in regulatory agencies are methodically rolling back decades of progress. Much of the damage...
View ArticleNew York says no to Trump’s offshore drilling expansion
New York State has approximately 2,625 miles of coastline. There are, of course, a myriad of reasons for protecting the state’s coastline. Beyond the coastline’s beauty and its role as an irreplaceable...
View Article3,500 economists call for carbon tax/carbon dividend. America isn’t listening.
Here’s a riddle. How many economists does it take to sound the alarm on the need for immediate action to address global climate change? If you guessed 3,558, you’d be on the money. That’s the total...
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