Category: Environment
Feds Propose Limited Immunity for Water Polluters
by Alison Fairbrother | Aug 8, 2013 | Environment(Source: woodleywonderworks/Flickr/Creative Commons) Agriculture is the largest contributor to water pollution in the U.S., dumping millions of pounds of nitrogen and phosphorous into the nation’s waterways each year. But as the problem worsens and government scrambles to find a solution, a program offering regulatory exemptions to farmers who voluntarily take cleanup steps is getting terrible […]
What Producers of BPA Plastic Learned from Big Tobacco
by Lou Dubose | Aug 1, 2013 | Environment(Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez) Our June investigative report on a Texas courtroom battle over “estrogenic-active” chemicals in consumer plastics is part of a much larger story involving compelling evidence that the plastics industry is hiding the toxicity of a product used in millions of American homes every day. Consider. The Eastman Chemical Company has spent […]
3 Basic Principles of Eating Meat
by Alexis Zanghi | Jul 29, 2013 | Environment(Image source: Benoît Deniaud/Flickr/Creative Commons) Nelly was wider than she was tall (about five hands or so), and kind of a jerk. She was old, and some brat (me) was always trying to put a saddle on her and play National Velvet in her paddock. But Nelly had that infuriating and endearing quality that most […]
Cleanup or Cover-up? What BP and the EPA Did to the Gulf
by Shanna Devine | Jul 1, 2013 | Environment, PoliticsIn summer 2011, a year after bp capped its disastrous Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and the national media had moved on, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) received a letter as unexpected as it was urgent. Michael Robichaux, a Louisiana physician treating individuals made sick by the disaster, explained: “This has been […]
Whistleblowing and Its Risks
by Hugh Kaufman | Jul 1, 2013 | Environment, PoliticsHaving been a “hard-core” EPA whistleblower since the Love Canal toxic-waste contamination case in 1977, I am amazed at how successful the major polluting oligarchies have been in hoodwinking the public and controlling the government’s ability to prevent major environmental catastrophes. Take, for example, the basic issue of protecting first responders. Everybody in government and […]
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