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Duke Fracking Tests Reveal Dangers Driller’s Data Missed

"When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared that a group of Texas homes near a gas-drilling operation didn’t have dangerous levels of methane in their water, it relied on tests […]
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In Harm's Way

"An Arizona Republic analysis found that despite warnings from fire and forestry experts, and nature itself, the state’s wildlands are dangerously overgrown. Arizonans, meanwhile, have since 1990 built more than 230,000 homes […]
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The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push

The ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the environment than politicians promised and much worse than the government admits today. Farmers have wiped out millions of acres of […]
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Raising a stink about spreading sewage on farms

“EPA regulations for the land application of biosolids are some of the most lenient in the world, requiring wastewater-treatment plants to check for just nine of some 80,000 pollutants that […]
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Extra Extra Monday: Poverty and profits, innocent drivers arrested, asbestos lawsuits and neglected abuse fatalities

Facing Foreclosure: Oklahoma's mortgage settlement program benefits attorneys | Tulsa World"So far, the largest financial beneficiary of Oklahoma's mortgage settlement program is a young attorney who used a system of […]
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BP oil refinery waste piles up on Southeast Side

By the end of the year, the oil giant BP is expected to complete work on new equipment that will more than triple the amount of petroleum coke produced by […]
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Stimulus Funds Paid For Trees For Wealthy Homeowners

"Stimulus funds aimed at jump starting the economy paid for about 4,000 trees in Denver, with many ending up at million dollar homes in Denver’s priciest neighborhoods where residents acknowledge […]
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Waste Land: Frio County Struggles with Fracking’s Leftovers

County officials estimate there’s been a 756 percent increase in the amount of fracking waste brought to Frio County since 2010 and that this year alone will see an estimated […]
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Even Small Amounts of Precipitation Dump Raw Sewage into Potomac River

Don't believe the signs city officials have posted at the four outfall spots that dump raw sewage into the Potomac River. The truth is much worse.
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Extra Extra Monday: Mentally ill inmates, sex predators unleashed, civil liberties violations

Sex Predators Unleashed | Sun-Sentinel"Another child is dead. This time, a brown-haired, brown-eyed girl, a year younger than Jimmy Ryce. A 1999 law passed after Jimmy was raped and murdered […]
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