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EPA tests have revealed that schoolchildren in New York City, Massachusetts, Oregon and North Dakota have been exposed to dangerous levels of PCBs via leaking lighting fixtures.

Until now, pesticide experiments on humans have been allowed, including experiments that sound one small step removed from legalized torture.

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NASA It May Be Winter, But Climate Change Hasn’t Gone AnywhereThere’s nothing like a good bout of winter weather, preferably with icy chill and buckets of snow, to bring the global warming deniers out of the woodwork. Granted, some folks don’t experience much in the way of bracing cold, even in January. But they, like […]

Rhett Butler, the one-man rainforest crusader behind the site mongabay.com has written an essay that takes to task the idea that forest-depleting paper companies in Indonesia—specifically Asia Pulp & Paper—are “carbon neutral” and help to alleviate poverty.

Since 1998, environmental advocates have been trying to stop the Spruce Mine in West Virginia, which would have been one of the largest mountaintop removal coal mines in the Appalachian Mountains. Last week, their efforts succeeded.