EPA Can't Tell Public Which Chem Plants Violate Safety Rules [1]
"U.S. EPA knows which chemical facilities aren't following federal safety protocols, but it can't tell the public where they are."
Source: Greenwire [2], 04/12/2016
"U.S. EPA knows which chemical facilities aren't following federal safety protocols, but it can't tell the public where they are."
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[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/11/thousands-of-radioactive-boars-are-overrunning-farmland-in-fukushima/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nasa-global-warming-now-changing-how-earth-wobbles
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[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/death-us-coal-industry-steep-decline-cheap-natural-gas-rises
[12] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/08/us-coal-industry-decline-natural-gas
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/researchers-fly-over-8000-well-pads-and-find-hundreds-methane-leaks
[14] http://publicsource.org/from-the-source/researchers-fly-over-8000-well-pads-and-find-hundreds-of-methane-leaks#.VwuOjUc3niN
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/iowa-corn-fields-chinese-nationals-seed-theft-shows-vulnerability
[16] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-seeds-idUSKCN0X80D6
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[18] http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473379564/unable-to-compete-on-price-nuclear-power-on-the-decline-in-the-u-s
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