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Toxic Landscape series

An on-going series by The (Bergen, N.J.) Record looks at the effectiveness — or lack thereof — of Superfund efforts in New Jersey's Bergen and Passaic counties. The first story […]
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InvestigateWest:Cruise Ships Dump Waste To Dodge Laws

An InvestigateWest report on the billion dollar cruise ship industry in the Washington-Alaska cruise market found that most ships avoid tougher state regulations and dump their waste in Canadian waters […]
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Sewage has polluted fishery for over a decade

A review of state and federal environmental records by reporters Christopher Baxter, Patrick Lester and Jarrett Renshaw, of The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.), uncovered that for more than a decade, […]
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Gulf of Mexico littered with abandoned oil and gas wells

Associated Press reporters Jeff Donn and Mitch Weiss discovered that more than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental […]
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Regulators failed to address problems with blowout preventers

A New York Times investigation shows that regulators knew there were problems with the blind shear ram, a "fail-safe" device intended to prevent disasters like the Deepwater Horizon blowout, yet […]
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Safety of rig had been a concern for months

Ian Urbina, of The New York Times, reports that internal documents from BP showed that "there were serious problems and safety concerns with the Deepwater Horizon rig far earlier than […]
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BP chose riskier option to seal Deepwater Horizon well

Ian Urbina, of The New York Times, reports that a BP document provide to the paper by a Congressional investigator reveals that BP officials chose "to use a type of […]
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Nitrate contamination a problem across California

"The water supply of more than two million Californians has been exposed to harmful levels of nitrates over the past 15 years," according to a report by California Watch. Nitrates […]
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Drilling in Gulf of Mexico allowed without requisite permits

Ian Urbina, of The New York Times, reports that the "federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of […]
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Carbon offsets have little impact on global warming

A joint investigation by The Christian Science Monitor and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting "found that individuals and businesses who are feeding a $700 million global market in […]
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