Tag: News
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Ohio Executive Pleads Guilty, Faces Three Years in Prison For Dumping Fracking Wastewater
Just over a year after he pleaded not guilty to violating the federal Clean Water Act, an Ohio wastewater company owner changed his tune regarding allegations that he dumped or ordered the dumping of thousands of toxic and potentially radioactive fracking wastewater into a storm drain. Ben Lupo, 63, pleaded guilty in federal court in Cleveland this week, the Associated…
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Texas Oil Spill Expected to ‘Get Much Worse’ for Wildlife
The oil spill off the coast of Galveston, TX, has the potential to get a lot worse than previously expected. The 168,000 gallons of thick, sludgy fuel oil that escaped a barge—whose hull was breached after a collision with another ship—is proving extremely difficult to contain. As of yesterday morning, oil was reported as far as…
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Texas Oil Spill Expected to ‘Get Much Worse’ for Wildlife
The oil spill off the coast of Galveston, TX, has the potential to get a lot worse than previously expected. The 168,000 gallons of thick, sludgy fuel oil that escaped a barge—whose hull was breached after a collision with another ship—is proving extremely difficult to contain. As of yesterday morning, oil was reported as far as…
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Florida Congressman Says Climate All-Nighter Was ‘Crass’ and ‘Strange’
With the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projecting that Florida’s sea waters could rise by as many as 24 inches in the next four decades, you’d think Congress members in that state would give climate denial a rest. That’s not the case for at least one member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican Ron Desantis expressed doubt…
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Climate Change Causing Salamanders to Shrink, Leaving Them Vulnerable to Predators and Extinction
Wild salamanders living in some of North America’s best salamander habitat are getting smaller as their surroundings get warmer and drier, forcing them to burn more energy in a changing climate. [caption id="attachment_327994" align="alignnone" width="504"] This Northern gray-cheeked salamander, Plethodon montanus, is one of the Appalachian salamander species that has gotten significantly smaller in recent…