I'm sure that dumping more chemicals in the air is the answer to the problem of Chinese smog: Government agencies are to test a new design of aerial drone to see whether it might help tackle the air pollution that often blankets much of the...
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On February 26, 1972, a Pittston Coal Company slurry dam collapsed in Logan County, West Virginia. The ensuing flood of coal slurry would kill 125 people and demonstrate once again.
As you recall, BP was responsible for a tiny little oil spill in 2010 called the Deepwater Horizon disaster. This only crushed tourism to New Orleans for several months, made.
Maryland legislators have introduced a bill to make the state's poultry producers pay a whole 5 cents a bird to protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed from runoff from these incredibly polluting facilities. Governor Carcetti O'Malley has backed away from such legislation in the past, afraid...
If you wanted to develop a corporation that personified evil, you couldn't do better than Freedom Industries: Federal and state officials were scrambling today following the surprise disclosure on Tuesday.
The true meaning of freedom is Freedom Industries declaring bankruptcy immediately after its chemical spill made water unsafe for 300,000 West Virginia residents. Freedom owes $3.6 million to its top.
It's possible that oil pipleines are a better way to transport the stuff than trains. But the wages of oil pipelines are severe. Ask the people of Mayflower, Arkansas, which suffered a pipeline rupture in town last year. For her entire life, 28-year old Genieve...
Sure am glad the relevant agencies declared West Virginia water safe now after the Freedom Industries chemical spill: “What we are seeing when we talk to our partners in hospital.
John Boehner gives his official approval to a regulatory regime that allows companies to cut off the water supply for 300,000 people. More on the lax regulations of West Virginia.
I now see why the Republicans passed the bill to gut Superfund. It's clearly unnecessary, what with a company actually named Freedom Industries taking care of the good people of West Virginia. Schools and restaurants closed, grocery stores sold out of bottled water, and state...
This is not an acceptable decision from the EPA during a Democratic administration: Today, the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection to change how toxic selenium.
Were one to want to work a job where your life and safety are consistently in danger and where you can live with the constant threat of pollution, one could.