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Detroit’s Toxic Legacy –Bankrupt City Faces Environmental Challenges 26 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
Packard Plant (Library of Congress) Sitting silent and decaying in its own polluted waste, The Packard Plant awaits a new future in post-bankruptcy Detroit. It is little more than a home for the home...
Civil Disobedience and the Keystone XL Pipeline 19 Aug 2013 | 03:22 am
More than 100 people showed up at the State Department early Monday morning to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. President Obama and the State Department have been considering the approval of the pipe...
New York Imports Pennsylvania’s Radioactive Fracking Waste Despite Falsified Water Tests 14 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
Hyland Landfill i ANGELICA, N.Y. — Questions about the integrity of official water tests are stirring the latest controversy over New York State’s embattled policy of allowing imports of radioactive ...
VIDEO: The Future of Fracking 25 Jul 2013 | 12:38 am
We explore the ramifications of hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania and what they mean for New York. Watch the National Security News Service/www.DCBureau.org video by corespondent Amy Lipman. Read...
Pennsylvania Fracking: New York’s Future? 24 Jul 2013 | 07:44 pm
As New York state lawmakers continue to stall their decision on whether or not to permit hydrofracking in New York, the controversial drilling practice is being put to the test right over the border i...
More People; Fewer Resources 16 Jul 2013 | 12:52 am
The UN now estimates that there will be 9.6 billion people by 2050, which is a revision upwards from their 2010 estimate of 9.3 billion. For some environmentalists, this is a scary thought. A simplist...
Indiana Regulators Let BP Pollute Lake Michigan 10 Jul 2013 | 09:05 pm
The Indiana state government recently extended a deal with BP that allows it to continue to dump toxic waste into Lake Michigan. Back in 2007, it gave BP permission to increase discharges of toxic pol...
Obama’s Climate Plan – An Ambitious Plan that Isn’t Ambitious Enough 26 Jun 2013 | 11:07 pm
President Obama gave a major climate change speech (full video and transcript here) and released a Climate Action Plan on Tuesday. It’s just one speech and there is a lot to work to implement the plan...
New World Bank Climate Change Predictions 26 Jun 2013 | 01:03 am
With President Obama’s announcement of new climate change action on Tuesday, the World Bank has just released a report (written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analyti...
Hungnam, North Korea: Delving into Pyongyang’s Long Nuclear Past 25 Jun 2013 | 11:53 pm
“Since V-J Day wisps of information have drifted into the hands of U.S. Army Intelligence of the existence of a gigantic and mystery-shrouded industrial project operated during the closing months of [...
