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Ozone Hole History Offers Climate Lesson

2013-11-10 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: In the 1970s, chemists Mario Molina and Sherwood Roland found that mundane household items posed a serious worldwide threat. The two chemists discovered that chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, from air conditioners and canisters of hair spray could destroy the ozone layer. That insight got them a Nobel Prize. By the 1980s, folks like then Secretary of State George Shultz woke up to the threat, despite a campaign of denial from scientific doubters. He convinced President Reagan that the danger was real...

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Did Canada Just Have the Largest Coal Slurry Spill in Its History?

2013-11-08 21:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: A scary thing happened on Halloween near Hinton, Alberta. Canada had what may be the largest coal slurry spill in its history when a dam failed at the Obed Mountain coal mine and 264 million gallons (1 billion litres) of waste water contaminated at least 25 kilometers of the Athabasca river. Ten municipalities located downstream of the spill were warned not to withdraw raw drinking water from the Athabasca river until it was deemed safe. Residents were also warned not to let their animals drink water...

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History and Honor: Fish and Gresham

2013-11-06 22:18:46| PortlandOnline

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11.06.13 -- The First Olympic Games In History With Carbon Neutral Travel Footprint

2013-11-05 07:52:11| pollutiononline News Articles

11/06/13Pollution Online Newsletter

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Federal Pipeline Regulatory Body Re-Opens Line Causing Biggest Fracked Oil Spill in US History

2013-11-03 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: A month after over 865,200 gallons of oil spilled from Tesoro Logistics' 6-inch pipeline near Tioga, North Dakota, the cause of the leak is still largely unknown to anyone but Tesoro. The pipeline resumed operations today. Carrying oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), the controversial horizontal drilling method used to capture oil and gas found embedded in shale rock basins worldwide, the Bakken Shale pipeline spill on September 29 was the largest fracked oil spill in U.S. history....

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