Tag: Clean Water Act
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Breaking: Unlimited Arsenic and Other Poisons Dumped Daily Into U.S. Waters
Today a coalition of environmental organizations and clean water groups released an eye popping new report highlighting the public health threats of toxic water pollution from coal-fired power plants. Environmental experts from Waterkeeper Alliance …
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New Pipeline Threatens Wetlands in Gulf Coast Communities
In a region still scarred by the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Plains Southcap LLC is building a pipeline meant to carry conventional crude oil from Alabama to Mississippi, threatening waterways in both states.
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ExxonMobil Fined for Fracking Wastewater Spill into Pennsylvania River
The U.S Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency handed the fine down to XTO Energy, which Exxon bought out in 2010, based on an alleged violation of the federal Clean Water Act …
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FRAC Act Reintroduced in the Senate
Amid widespread fears that the boom in “fracking” for natural gas poses a growing array of environmental threats, some members of Congress are making a new effort to reverse a 2005 law that exempted the industry from …
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Colorado Residents Protest Fracking at Democratic Governors’ Conference
This past Saturday, hundreds of Coloradans from across the state gathered outside the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) meeting at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, CO, to tell Gov. Hickenlooper and other governors from across the country to say no t…