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Both Former EPA Official and Flint Emergency Manager Pass the Buck on Water Crisis
Lawmakers took high-level decision makers during the Flint crisis to task, with scathing criticism.
How Far Does the Lead Water Crisis Go? We Don’t Do the Testing to Find Out
It's very hard to find out how widespread this problem of lead poisoning is in the US today.
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More Plastic Than Fish in Oceans by 2050 Helps Drive Calls for Reduced Plastic Use
Advocates against single-use plastics say cleaning up the world's oceans will take individual efforts and policy change.
Activists Demand Corporations Pay for Toxic Poverty Wages
Activists are championing laws that shift the costs of poverty wages from communities to corporations.
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Cutting Emissions Could Prevent Nearly 300,000 US Air Pollution Deaths
Researchers estimate saving these lives could benefit the US economy $250bn per year.
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Regulators Butt Heads With Activists Over Assessment of Offshore Fracking Hazards
To the dismay of environmentalists, a new draft assessment proposes to forgo new restrictions on offshore fracking and any changes to the permitting process.
Will Anyone Be Prosecuted in the Flint Water Crisis?
It remains to be seen whether anyone can or will be prosecuted criminally by either federal or state prosecutors for this disaster.
North Carolina Environmental Officials: Too Anti-Regulation Even for Duke Energy?
Duke Energy urged North Carolina to take a different approach to the Clean Power Plan.
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Dahr Jamail | As Fossil Fuel Industry Staggers, a Massive Gas Pipeline Project Endures in Texas
While the US oil and gas industry flounders due to falling prices, Japanese demand is helping a Texas pipeline project proceed.
The Department of Defense Is the Third Largest Polluter of US Waterways
An advocacy group has “crunched the numbers” in an effort to reveal who the largest polluters of US waterways are.