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Industrial Pollution

African American Descendants Sue To Save Louisiana's Revilletown Cemetery

Susan Buchanan | Posted 03.13.2013 | Green
Read More: Funerals, Mount Zion Baptist Association, Iberville Parish, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Plaquemine, Burials, Norco, Chemical Plants, Mount Zion Baptist Church No.1, Chlorine, Ancestors, Baton Rouge, Georgia Gulf Corp., Lake Charles, Industrial Pollution, Slavery, Shell Chemical, PPG Industries, Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Plantations, Mississippi River, Green News
Susan Buchanan

(This article was published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the Jan. 7, 2013 edition.) Former residents of Revilletown--an African American community to...

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EPA Gives Out First Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit

AP | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 01.10.2012 | Green
Read More: Texas, Environmental Protection Agency, Texas Greenhouse Gas Permits, Epa Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit, Lower Colorado River Authority, Industrial Pollution, Greenhouse Gases, Epa, Environment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Texas Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Rick Perry, Video, Green News

HOUSTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded a greenhouse gas permit to a Texas plant, the first the federal agency has iss...

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Lynne Peeples

The Dirt On Shop Towels: Are Industrial Workers At Risk?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.10.2011 | Green
Read More: Kimberly Clark, Dirty Towels, Heavy Metal, Kimberly Clark Research, Car Repair, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Industrial Pollution, Heavy Metal Contamination, Kimberly-Clark, Contaminated Towels, Cancer, Towels, Toxic Metals in Towels, Heavy Metals, Toxins, Green News

Once a week, a batch of freshly laundered red towels, sealed in plastic, arrives at the Atlas Garage on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, while 100 or...

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As the Earth Turns: How Environmentalism Has Evolved

Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Environment, Environmentalism, Earth Day, Clean Air Act, Oil Spill, Industrial Pollution, Hog Farm, Earth Day 2010, Earth Day Anniversary, Global Warming, Green News
Will Marshall

Unlike the great industrial cleanup of the '70s and '80s, which focused on visible pollution like smokestacks and drainage pipes, we're faced today with damage from "non-point" sources like fields and hog farms.

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More Than Genes III: Pregnancy, Toxic Environments, and Fetal Vulnerability

Dan Agin | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Pregnancy, Epigenetics, Gene Expression, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Industrial Pollution, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Healthy Living News
Dan Agin

It's natural for pregnant women to feel besieged by the idea of environmental toxic impacts on the developing fetus. The reality is that we're all besieged by this idea. But is it better to be ignorant of the dangers?

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Cleaning up the American Eden: How Environmentalism Was Born on the Hudson River

Louise Mirrer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Hudson River School, Hudson River Park Trust, Erie Canal, Industrial Pollution, George Pataki, Henry Hudson, Andrew Revkin, Eden, Hudson River, Storm King Mountain, Green News
Louise Mirrer

The Hudson River has played a decisive role, not only as the birthplace of New York City and State, but also as the cradle of today's environmental movement.

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