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Here’s the New Study the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to See
Here’s the New Study the Fracking Industry Doesn’t Want You to See (ANTIMEDIA) Though fracking industry proponents scoff at any intimation their so-called vital industry poses even scant risks to the public, a new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacologyjust proved those critics right — fracking wastewater causes cancer. Using human bronchial epithelial cells, which are commonly used to […]
Cattle Deaths Spark Renewed Oil Drilling Controversy
Cattle Deaths Spark Renewed Oil Drilling Controversy Following the mysterious death of seven cattle near an oil field in Kansas, public health authorities are investigating whether oil drilling could be the cause. In late December, seven dead cattle were found near an oil field in the Cimarron National Grassland, Kansas, and authorities believe that cows […]
6 Cities in Michigan Have Even Higher Levels of Lead than Flint
6 Cities in Michigan Have Even Higher Levels of Lead than Flint (ANTIMEDIA) As the nation rightly focuses on Flint’s ongoing water crisis, other cities in the state of Michigan face even higher levels of lead contamination. The alarming pervasiveness of potentially toxic drinking water extends across the United States. The Detroit News reports that “Elevated blood-lead levels are seen in […]
The Haunting Legacy of South Africa’s Gold Mines
The Haunting Legacy of South Africa’s Gold Mines Thousands of abandoned gold mines are scattered across South Africa, polluting the water with toxics and filling the air with noxious dust. For the millions of people who live around these derelict sites, the health impacts can be severe. The name is derived from “happy prospect” in Afrikaans, […]
The Teflon Toxin: How Dupont Slipped Past the EPA
The Teflon Toxin: How Dupont Slipped Past the EPA IKE ROMINE GREW UP in Blennerhasset, West Virginia, not far from DuPont’s Parkersburg plant. Throughout his childhood and young adulthood, Romine was probably exposed through his drinking water to C8, a slippery, soap-like chemical used to make Teflon pans and Stainmaster carpet and hundreds of other products. […]
Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?
Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money? A week before The EPA disastrously leaked millions of gallons of toxic waste into The Animas River in Colorado, this letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard & The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist detailing verbatim, how EPA would foul […]
The Teflon Toxin: Dupont and the Chemistry of Deception
The Teflon Toxin: Dupont and the Chemistry of Deception KEN WAMSLEY SOMETIMES DREAMS that he’s playing softball again. He’ll be at center field, just like when he played slow pitch back in his teens, or pounding the ball over the fence as the crowd goes wild. Other times, he’s somehow inexplicably back at work in the lab. […]
Toxic Waste Sullies Solar’s Squeaky Clean Image
Toxic Waste Sullies Solar’s Squeaky Clean Image Toxic sludge and filthy air – byproducts of the oil and coal industries – are a constant irritant for opponents and even proponents of fossil fuels, while renewables like wind and solar are often seen as bastions of rectitude for their relative cleanliness. However, before the proponents of […]
Mercury levels still rising near Grassy Narrows First Nation, report says
Mercury levels still rising near Grassy Narrows First Nation, report says 50-year-old contamination that was never cleaned up still polluting water and fish, report says Fifty years after a Dryden pulp mill dumped its effluent into a northern Ontario watershed, mercury continues to rise in some lakes, according to a study commissioned by the provincial government […]
Nine Months After Polley Breach, Alaskans Seek Compensation Guarantee from BC
Nine Months After Polley Breach, Alaskans Seek Compensation Guarantee from BC Proposed northern BC mines ‘source of great angst in Juneau.’ Earlier this month, Heather Hardcastle, a commercial fisherwoman from Juneau, Alaska met in Williams Lake, B.C. with members of the Tsilhqot’in First Nation. They shared a meal of wild Alaskan salmon that Hardcastle brought […]
Unprecedented Mass Die Offs as Pacific Ocean “Turning Into a Desert” Off California Coast
Unprecedented Mass Die Offs as Pacific Ocean “Turning Into a Desert” Off California Coast “Ocean’s dying, plankton’s dying… it’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!” It was the […]
Environmentalists Are Taking California To Court Over Illegal Oil Industry Wastewater Injection
Environmentalists Are Taking California To Court Over Illegal Oil Industry Wastewater Injection Environmentalists filed a motion requesting a preliminary injunction today in a California court to immediately stop the daily illegal injection of millions of gallons of oil field wastewater into protected groundwater aquifers in the state. Last week, Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Sierra Club […]
Dimock, PA Lawsuit Trial-Bound as Study Links Fracking to Water Contamination in Neighboring County
Dimock, PA Lawsuit Trial-Bound as Study Links Fracking to Water Contamination in Neighboring County A recent peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed what many fracking critics have argued for years: hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas can contaminate groundwater. The study’s release comes as a major class action lawsuit filed in the District […]
Analysis: What Bill C-22 Means For Oil Spill Cleanup in Canada
Analysis: What Bill C-22 Means For Oil Spill Cleanup in Canada After BP’s Deepwater Horizon well blowout in April 2010, responders dumped approximately 1.84 million gallons of chemical dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to stop the oil slick from fouling fragile coastal environments. The use of such a massive quantity of dispersants, coupled […]
New—and Worrisome—Contaminants Emerge From Oil and Gas Wells
New—and Worrisome—Contaminants Emerge From Oil and Gas Wells Researchers find alarming levels of ammonium and iodide in fracking wastewater released into Pennsylvania and West Virginia streams. Two hazardous chemicals never before known as oil and gas industry pollutants – ammonium and iodide – are being released into Pennsylvania and West Virginia waterways from the booming […]
