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What Could Go Wrong? EPA Approves Bacteria-Infected Lab-Grown Mosquitoes
What Could Go Wrong? EPA Approves Bacteria-Infected Lab-Grown Mosquitoes Lab-grown mosquitoes armed with bacterium Wolbachia pipientis have just been approved by the EPA. The agency is saying that these mosquitoes could be the key to killing off insects that often transmit dangerous viruses such as Zika. Nothing can go wrong, right? The government would never do […]
Pennsylvania Attorney General Launches Fracking Probe After Residents Call for Help
Pennsylvania Attorney General Launches Fracking Probe After Residents Call for Help UPDATED 11/01/17: DEP responded to Public Herald’s questions regarding the Buckwalter complaint investigation. Over the past seven months, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General has received an influx of phone calls from residents alleging that officials at the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have ignored or […]
The Real Nuclear Triad: Energy, Weapons and Waste
The Real Nuclear Triad: Energy, Weapons and Waste Photo by Maxwell Hamilton | Public Domain Clear and Present Danger Never before has the unbreakable connection between nuclear energy, weapons and waste been so blatantly obvious to the public eye…yet, with so little notice. Although President Trump has threatened to obliterate North Korea and its 25 […]
How Has the US Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas?
How Has the US Fracking Boom Affected Air Pollution in Shale Areas? Urban air pollution in the U.S. has been decreasing near continuously since the 1970s. Federal regulations, notably the Clean Air Act passed by President Nixon, to reduce toxic air pollutants such as benzene, a hydrocarbon, and ozone, a strong oxidant, effectively lowered their abundance […]
The Ecosystem is Breaking Down
The Ecosystem is Breaking Down Photo by Richard Allaway | Public Domain The ecosystem is the quintessential essence of life on our planet, and this crucial life system is showing signs of breaking down. It is likely a more pressing problem than climate change. Time will tell but time is short. The ecosystem consists of […]
Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges
Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges On October 23, 84 Congressional representatives made a splash when they published a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking if those engaged in activism disrupting or damaging pipeline operations should face criminal prosecution as an act of terrorism under the USA PATRIOT ACT. Spearheaded […]
Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016
Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016 Last week the BBC carried another scare story on climate change, this time citing a report on CO2 from the World Meteorological Organisation: “Concentrations of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere surged to a record high in 2016, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Last year’s increase […]
Are Driverless Cars a Good Way to Help Stop Greenhouse Warming, or Is Greenhouse Warming a Good Pretext for Selling Driverless Cars?
Are Driverless Cars a Good Way to Help Stop Greenhouse Warming, or Is Greenhouse Warming a Good Pretext for Selling Driverless Cars? Photo by Paul Sableman | CC by 2.0 The automakers and IT giants are predicting that autonomous vehicles (AVs or “driverless cars”) will play a big role in reducing America’s currently extravagant emissions […]
Ohio Court Overturns Law Preventing Cities From Voting on Anti-Fracking Measures
Ohio Court Overturns Law Preventing Cities From Voting on Anti-Fracking Measures In a slight break with previous state policies that have encouraged fracking activity and new pipelines, the Ohio Supreme Court recently struck down a controversial provision restricting citizen efforts to vote locally on these and other issues through the ballot initiative process. Getting Out (of) […]
Meet Monsanto’s Other Herbicide Problem…
Meet Monsanto’s Other Herbicide Problem… http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-01/meet-monsantos-other-herbicide-problemEarlier this year we wrote about a series of court documents that were unsealed and seemingly revealed a startling effort on the part of both Monsanto and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work in concert to kill and/or discredit independent, albeit inconvenient, cancer research conducted by the World Health […]
Officials Warn: Airborne Black Death Epidemic Could ‘Explode’
Officials Warn: Airborne Black Death Epidemic Could ‘Explode’ The bubonic plague outbreak that is taking Madagascar to its knees will more than likely last another six months. But the worst news is that the epidemic could explode anytime unleashing the sickness on the globe. At least 128 people have been killed and more than 1,300 […]
The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics of Collapse
The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics of Collapse Contrary to common sense, we could experience booming GDP and stock market valuations all the way to society’s imminent collapse. As we reel from one natural disaster after another—hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, wildfires in California—climate scientists explain how they’re not really “natural” at all. They’re the anticipated consequence of a breakdown […]
Europe Fears ‘The Big One’ After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days
Europe Fears ‘The Big One’ After 140 Earthquakes Strike The French Alps In 40 Days In recent weeks, the locals living in the Maurienne part of Savoie in the French Alps have been getting used to being shaken awake at night. The region has been rocked by 140 earthquakes in a mere 40 days sparking […]
Pesticides Pollution
PESTICIDES POLLUTION Pesticides are chemicals that are used to kill or control pests. This includes herbicides that are used for getting rid of weeds, insecticides used to treat fungicides, nematocides used to control nematodes as well as rodenticides used to treat vertebrate poisoning. WHY PESTICIDES CAN BE HARMFUL Pesticides contain ingredients such as oxygen, chlorine, […]
After Wildfires, Californians Warned: ‘You Will See Rapid Flooding, People TRAPPED’
After Wildfires, Californians Warned: ‘You Will See Rapid Flooding, People TRAPPED’ Maxwell, California flooded in 2017 Experts are warning that California’s state capital could be the next hot spot to experience massive flooding on catastrophe levels. Officials are admitting that one particular Sacramento neighborhood is in an area that never should have been settled, to begin […]
