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Did you know that living near a toxic coal ash site can be worse for kids’ health than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day? Much of our country’s energy comes from dirty coal, which leaves behind toxic ash after … Continue reading →

September 20, 2010-by Bob Femandez in the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was that plant, according to plaintiff claims, that dumped toxic chemicals into an unlined retention pond between the early 1960s and late 1970s. The chemicals traveled to nearby McCollum Lake … Continue reading →

September 19, 2010-by Jeanette Sturges in the Naperville Sun. he city’s locked in to a full-requirements contract with the IMEA until 2035. Short of expensive lawsuits, Naperville is tied to IMEA, and thus to Prairie State, for 24 years, beginning … Continue reading →

September 17, 2010-by Ronald Bailey in Reason Magazine. Even my iPhone was forbidden on the grounds that no photos should be taken. Michelle, the very nice tour guide, explained that curious members of the public and reporters couldn’t tour the … Continue reading →

September 10, 2010-by David Biello in Scientific American. Coal-burning poses other threats as well, including the toxic coal ash that can spill from the impoundments where it is kept; other polluting emissions that cause acid rain and smog; and the … Continue reading →

August 26, 2010-by Gitte Laasby in the Post Tribune. Ed. Note: Apparently the Indiana Department of Environmental Management does not give a hoot about the law or the health of the people who must live with the consequences of their … Continue reading →

August 17, 2010-by Karl Grossman in the Huffington Post. “The evidence is there that the majority of cancer cases are environmentally caused,” says Dr. David Carpenter, founding dean of the University of Albany School of Public Health and now director … Continue reading →

August 15, 2010-by Gitte Laasby in the Post Tribune. On Thursday, South Bend TV station WSBT measured temperatures of water downstream from the mint farm as high as 190 degrees Fahrenheit. Photo shows IDEM Commissioner Thomas Easterly who happily says … Continue reading →

August 11, 2010-byDonald A. Brown, Penn State University. “Ethical arguments that could counter the national-interest based arguments are rarely heard in the climate change debate and are now virtually absent in the U.S. discussion of proposed domestic climate change legislation.” … Continue reading →

August 9, 2010- Ozone and fine particles will rise to an Orange alert today and tomorrow. Air Quality Action Day has been forecast for Southwestern Indiana for today, August 9th and Tuesday, August 10th for Ozone (O3) and Fine Particles … Continue reading →

July 29, 2010-By Stewart Elgie, Nic Rivers and Nancy Olwwiler in the Times Colonist. The carbon tax has obvious moral appeal. By tying the pollution tax to reduced income taxes, B.C. has shifted from taxing “goods,” like working and entrepreneurship, … Continue reading →

July 26, 2010-By Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family fund in the New York Times. Had Lyndon Johnson likewise relied on polling, he would have told the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to talk only about the expanded … Continue reading →

July 22, 2010-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. The full moon is Saturday night. This picture was shot one month ago as a waxing moon rose over Marina Point and the LST 325. The boat is a Landing Ship Tank, this … Continue reading →

July 22, 2010-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratioon. The global June land surface temperature was 1.93°F (1.07°C) above the 20th century average of 55.9 °F (13.3°C) — the warmest on record. Graph credit: NOAA Last month’s combined global land and ocean … Continue reading →

July 19, 2010-by Gitte Laasby, in the Post Tribune. According to an IDEM inspection report this spring, the pile is 900 feet long and 67 feet tall. It contains slag and 274,000 cubic yards of basic oxygen furnace sludge and … Continue reading →