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Jul 23 / 6:05am
Big Oil's Dirty Secret: There's a Serious Spill Almost Daily in America - Environment - GOOD
Most news outlets don't report on spills this "minor" because they happen quite literally all the time. About 20,0000 oil spills are reported to the U.S. government annually. Of those, approximately 300 are so bad that the Environmental Protection Agency either intervenes itself or oversees private cleanup contractors. In other words, that's about an oil spill per day.
via good.is
Jun 25 / 6:19am
World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Roundup, confirmed to cause birth defects.
industry regulators in Europe have known for years that glyphosate, originally introduced by American agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto in 1976, causes birth defects in the embryos of laboratory animals.
Jun 24 / 4:11pm
It's about time: package-free grocery stores!
via youtube.com
When we debut in 2011, in.gredients will be the first package-free, zero waste grocery store in the United States.
via in.gredients.com
Jun 4 / 6:40am
If we need taxes, why not pollution taxes?
In case that graph's too tiny, America's way over there on the far left, getting slightly less than 3 percent of its revenue from measures to discourage pollution.
May 6 / 6:21pm
50 Classic Russian Films (Including Tarkovsky’s Finest) Now Online.
the Moscow film company Mosfilm has just made 5o Russian classics (including Tarkovsky’s Mirror, Solaris, and Andrei Rublev) available on YouTube in high definition.
via openculture.com
Apr 30 / 7:29am
American Lung Association's State of the Air Report 2011 not good...
The State of the Air 2011 shows that...over 154 million people—just over one half the nation—suffer pollution levels that are too often dangerous to breathe.
Apr 10 / 6:41am
Hugo Chávez Is Right: Let's Get Rid of Some Golf Courses.
Does Palm Springs really need more than 120 golf resorts? Does Scottsdale, Arizona, need 174? With about 28.6 million golfers over the age of six in the United States, and about 19,000 courses, we've got a golf course for every 1,500 golfers. It seems excessive no matter how you look at it. And unlike, say, power plants, which use a ton of water in the name of keeping cities alive, golf courses eat up vast amounts of resources simply to provide wealthy people with a leisure activity.
via good.is
Mar 31 / 6:38am
House GOP wages war on environment - Obama caving.
the administration made it clear that some House GOP proposals restricting the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory powers would have to make it into the final bill...
It's not clear which proposals the White House might accept, but those backed by Republicans would block the government from carrying out regulations on greenhouse gases, putting in place a plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and from shutting down mountaintop mines it believes will cause too much water pollution.
via news.yahoo.com
Mar 13 / 8:46am
House Republicans move to shut down Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
In the next hurricane, flood, tornado or wildfire, lives will be lost and people will ask what went wrong. Congress' cuts and the devastation to the well-being of our nation's citizens are dangerously wrong.
