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Corrupt Executives Sent To Prison For Pumping Toxic Leaded Fuel Overseas
2014-08-10 04:46:19| Chemicals - Topix.net
Every morning, hundreds of thousands of cars converge in the Algerian capital of Algiers.
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Lake Erie's Toxic Bloom Has Ohio Famers On The Defensive
2014-08-08 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A giant algae bloom is still making the waters in the western part of Lake Erie look like a thick, green pea soup. Toxins in that muck seeped into the water supply of Toledo, Ohio, last weekend, forcing officials to ban nearly half a million people from using tap water. A big cause of the algae proliferation isn't a mystery - it's crop runoff. And local farmers are on the defensive. Six miles from Lake Erie is Ron Schimming's 400-acre soybean and corn farm. "They shouldn't be placing all the...
Scientists and business leaders urge US government to reject toxic...
2014-08-08 11:05:20| Chemicals - Topix.net
A group of scientists and medical experts is calling on the Obama Administration to reject an application by Dow AgroSciences seeking approval for a new herbicide known as Enlist Duo, which contains the glyphosate component of Roundup and the 2,4-D component of the Vietnam War weapon Agent Orange in a single solution.
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A Texas County Sees Opportunity in Toxic Waste
2014-08-07 19:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Loving County is big, dry and stretches for miles, and is the perfect place, local officials say, to store high-level radioactive waste. Officials here hope to entice the federal government with $28 billion to spend on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste into considering the possibility. With the money that this would generate for the county, we might even be able to pay the taxpayers back, said the county judge, Skeet Jones. We could build some roads. We could bring in some...
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Toxic Algae Contaminates Toledo Water
2014-08-04 03:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: More than 400,000 residents of Toledo, Ohio`s fourth largest city, are without water following the detection of the toxin Microcystin in the public water system, caused by an algal bloom in the area. On Saturday, Governor John Kasich, a Republican, declared a state of emergency for Lucas County, where Toledo is located, and neighboring Wood and Fulton counties. National Wildlife Federation President Collin O`Mara points to toxic algae in Toledo`s Maumee Bay, August 3, 2014 (Photo courtesy NWF)....
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