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World Toilet Day Has a Different Meaning in Chicago

Henry Henderson | Posted 01.21.2013 | Chicago
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Henry Henderson

While we celebrate the civilizing influence of indoor plumbing on International Toilet Day, there is nothing civil about the Greater Chicago Region dumping intestinal miasma on our southward neighbors.

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How Big Will The Gulf's Dead Zone Get This Year?

Posted 06.22.2012 | Green
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By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer: The predicted size of this year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico depends on whom you ask. One forecast ...

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Groups Sue EPA Over Giant Gulf 'Dead Zone'

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012 | Green
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By David Bailey March 14 (Reuters) - Several environmental groups are suing the U.S. government to curb pollution of the Mississippi ...

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Gulf 'Dead Zone' This Year Predicted To Be Largest In History

AP | By CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 08.14.2011 | Green
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NEW ORLEANS -- Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history – ab...

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Female Fish Develop 'Testes' In Gulf Dead Zone

National Geographic | Posted 08.03.2011 | Green
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The Gulf dead zone occurs when agricultural and waste runoff from the Mississippi River spark blooms of algae and microbes. These organisms gobble up ...

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Untreated Sewage Dumped In City Waterways, Environmentalists Sue

Posted 07.04.2011 | Chicago
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by Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Environmental groups on Tuesday sued the city of Chicago's water treatment authority, charging its sewage p...

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Green News Report: August 3, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Thousands...

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Gulf Dead Zone Now The Size Of Massachusetts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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NEW ORLEANS — Scientists say this year that the "dead zone" area that forms every summer in the Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest ever measur...

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Massive Gulf Dead Zone From Biofuel Production? May Be More Harmful Than Oil Spill

sfgate.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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While the BP oil spill has been labeled the worst environmental catastrophe in recent U.S. history, a biofuel is contributing to a Gulf of Mexico "dea...

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