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President Obama: say NO to the Keystone XL pipeline

We need more than sound bytes in an election year. Now, I am really not too hopeful... more

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Just back from IRAQ Tim Collette has a message for you. Thanks for preventing CHASE from taking fathers home.

CHANGE.org saved soldier's home (with father) on return from IRAQ. Chase had... more

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Fracking now affecting Rivers in addition to drinking water!

Please read up on fracking!... more

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Mother of the Superfund: Love Canal Warrios Lois Gibbs in Marquette, MI - as Upper Peninsula faces grave environmental battle

Mother of the Superfund: Love Canal fighter & environmental warrior Lois Gibbs... more

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Companies are fighting to water down toxic waste legislation.

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BREAKING: Hungarian Environmental Disaster Reaches the Danube River

(Reuters) - Toxic red sludge from a Hungarian alumina plant reached the Danube on... more

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Toxic waste contaminates US food supply and exports

Since the BP oil spill began on April 22 and clean up crews started skimming and... more

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Coal Ash Contaminates Groundwater and Drinking Water Sites in 21 States

A new study by a coalition of environmental groups has documented 39 cases where waste from coal-fired power plants has poisoned the groundwater and drinking water in 21 states.

The August 26 study—by the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice and Sierra Club—found that 39 coal combustion waste disposal sites in 21 states had contaminated water with toxic metals and other pollutants. An earlier study released in February had documented similar environmental harm at 31 coal combustion waste sites in 14 states.

“The contamination of water supplies, threats to people, and damage to the environment documented in this report illustrate very real and dangerous harms that are prohibited by federal law but are going on in a largely unchecked fashion at today’s coal ash dump sites,” said Jeff Stant, director of the Coal Combustion Waste Initiative at the Environmental Integrity Project.

“The need for more direct EPA involvement is clear; leaving enforcement to the same states that have refused to do their jobs for the last 40 years is simply not a responsible course of action,” Stant said.

Coal ash, the common name for coal combustion residuals, are the waste products left over after coal is burned to generate electricity. It can contain hazardous chemicals including arsenic, benzene, cadmium, mercury and selenium.

As the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice and Sierra Club noted in their February report, coal-fired power plants generate nearly 140 million tons of fly ash, scrubber sludge, and other combustion waste every year. The toxic metals contained in the waste can cause cancer and neurological damage in people and poison fish.

A catastrophic 2008 coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take a closer look at how the waste is stored, and hire contractors to conduct site assessments.

The spill resulted in a “tremendous” fish kill as it flowed into tributaries of the Tennessee River, which provide drinking water for the city of Chattanooga and hundreds of downstream communities in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky, The Chattanoogan reported. The 5.4 million cubic yards of spilled material—or more than a billion gallons—raised levels of lead and thallium above safe drinking levels in river water near the spill and resulted in elevated iron and manganese levels several miles downstream, according to The New York Times.

The EPA is holding a nationwide series of public hearings on the coal ash issue as the agency considers whether to seek tighter regulations of the waste.

The environmental groups charge that tighter rules are needed since state regulations have failed to protect the groundwater and drinking water surrounding coal ash dump sites.A new study by a coalition of environmental groups has documented 39 cases where waste... more

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State AG busts phony recyclers - Sacramento Environmental News | Examiner.com

charged with fraud and mishandling toxic materials.

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Oil company that 'poisoned 100,000 with toxic waste' is fined £830,000

One of the world’s biggest oil trading companies was yesterday fined... more

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Trafigura fined over toxic waste in Ivory Coast

The case of Trafigura and toxic waste in the Ivory Coast took a number of turns like... more

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Coal Ash Can Be Called Hazardous Waste

A new testing method by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reveals that... more

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Oil Spill Volunteers - Cleanup in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama

PHOTO: Forecast location of the spill at 1800 CDT on Saturday 5/1/2010. The red color... more

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honeywell v. the people, waters and earth of Syracuse, NY!

__Honeywell Expands Onondaga Lake and Shoreline Remediation__ Second Phase of Barrier... more

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Honeywell wants to relocate their toxic sludge rather than remove it!

under federal order to clean our great Lake Onondaga, Honeywell/Allied Chemical inc is... more

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Eco Artist John Fekner Revamps Famous Toxic Waste Video for Earth Day

We're big fans of John Fekner, who creates environmentally focused artwork, often... more

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Youth Get Toxic Company Banned from California

A youth group, Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), gets environmental justice... more

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WARNING!!! FLUORIDE IS RAT POISON a Deadly Toxin…Our KIDS are Drinking, Washing, & Brushing W/ It!!! VIDEO

Story on Mystery Substance Distracts from Fact Fluoride is a Deadly Killer Kurt... more

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Regulations foiled, EPA not able to enforce laws to protect clean water!

here is another example of the mockery monied corporate interests have made of our... more

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Superfund Dollars give hope that world's most polluted lake can be cleaned, state & local governments killing all hope!

In Central New York, we are blessed with our connections to the enviroment and 95% of... more

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