Tag: united states
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100 Million+ Americans Exposed to Toxic Drinking Water
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — A new Environmental Working Group analysis of 2011 water quality tests by 201 large U.S. municipal water systems that serve more than 100 million people in 43 states has determined that all are polluted with unwanted toxic …
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Atomic Dominoes Fall While Tanks Leak at Hanford
HARVEY WASSERMAN — This may yet become the first year in decades that the U.S. has fewer than 100 operating commercial reactors. It will also be the biggest year worldwide for the booming Solartopian industries that are transforming …
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Stripmining Black History Month
JEFF BIGGERS — As schools, communities and politicians across the country celebrate Black History Month in February, they will be remiss if their lessons don’t include the coal fields of Fayette County, West Virginia. There, in the 1890s, a teenage African American …
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Policy Matters: The Clean Energy Future of the U.S.
THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS — To reclaim a leadership position in the worldwide competition, the public and private sectors in the U.S. must work together to strengthen the clean energy industry …
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Environmental Scorecard: How Your Elected Officials Voted in 2012
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS — From an environmental perspective, the best that can be said about the second session of the 112th Congress is that it is over. Indeed, the Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives continued its war on the environment …