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VIDEO: Toxic legacy of e-waste in Ghana
2014-02-19 09:28:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
David Reid travels to Agbogbloshie, Ghana to meet the people who make a living from sorting toxic e-waste.
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North Carolina riverbed coated by toxic coal ash, officials say
2014-02-18 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Federal officials said Tuesday that toxic coal ash has coated the bottom of a North Carolina river as many as 70 miles downstream of a Duke Energy dump where a massive spill occurred two weeks ago. The US Fish and Wildlife Service advised that a massive pile of coal ash about 75ft long and as much as 5ft deep has been detected on the bottom of the Dan river near the site of the February 2 spill. Deposits varying from 5in deep to less than 1in coated the river bottom across the state line into...
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Fracking boom spews toxic air emissions on Texas residents
2014-02-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When Lynn Buehring leaves her doctor's office in San Antonio she makes sure her inhaler is on the seat beside her, then steers her red GMC pickup truck southeast on U.S. 181, toward her home on the South Texas prairie. About 40 miles down the road, between Poth and Falls City, drilling rigs, crude oil storage tanks and flares trailing black smoke appear amid the mesquite, live oak and pecan trees. Depending on the speed and direction of the wind, a yellow-brown haze might stretch across the horizon,...
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Texas Officials Turn Blind Eye To Fracking Industry's Toxic Air Emissions
2014-02-18 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In January 2011, with air quality worsening in Texas' booming oil and gas fields, state environmental regulators adopted rules to reduce emissions. The industry rebelled. So did the state legislature. A few months later, lawmakers passed SB1134, effectively preventing the new regulations from being applied in the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas, one of the nation's biggest oil and gas booms. Since then, more than 2,400 air emissions permits have been issued in the Eagle Ford without additional...
Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill
2014-02-14 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Hear the latest on the 73 Olympic-size swimming pools worth of toxic sludge that Duke Energy dumped into North Carolina waterways starting Super Bowl Sunday in this Rachel Maddow interview with Michael Gerrard, professor of environmental law at Columbia University. Gerrard talks about a North Carolina federal investigation into this coal ash leak disaster. For more information on this third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, read Waterkeeper Alliances four-part series: part one, part two,...
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