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5 percent of polluters create 90 percent of toxic emissions. Guess where theyre located?
2016-01-28 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: With the way the Flint water crisis is unfolding, the reality of environmental racism is front and center in the news. As Aura Bogado explained so well earlier this week, environmental justice is closely tied to segregation and inequality. It seems like every month theres a new study telling us that pollution is higher in black and low-income communities. Well, January did not disappoint. A new study published in Environmental Research Letters looks into the connections between pollution, race,...
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Researchers find some solid-state hydrogen storage materials could serve as less toxic solid propellants for rockets
2016-01-25 11:55:38| Green Car Congress
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Call for UK ban on "toxic" children's fur trim
2016-01-19 15:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is calling on the UK government to ban the sale of fur-trimmed children's clothing.
Poison warmed over: Climate change may hurt animals' ability to live on toxic plants
2016-01-16 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: University of Utah lab experiments found that when temperatures get warmer, woodrats suffer a reduced ability to live on their normal diet of toxic creosote - suggesting that global warming may hurt plant-eating animals. "This study adds to our understanding of how climate change may affect mammals, in that their ability to consume dietary toxins is impaired by warmer temperatures," says biologist Denise Dearing, senior author of the research published online Jan. 13 in the British journal Proceedings...
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St. Louis Anxious About EPA Plan for Barrier Between Fire, Toxic Waste
2016-01-11 15:40:00| Waste Age
Al Jazeera America Those living near a landfill complex in suburban St. Louis where an underground fire is burning near Cold War-era nuclear weapons waste say they remain afraid and frustrated despite a government pledge to build a barrier between the two. read more
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