"Once Feared, Now Celebrated, Hudson River Cleanup Nears Its End" [1]
"For half a decade, General Electric has been paying for a massive dredging operation on the upper Hudson River in New York."
"For half a decade, General Electric has been paying for a massive dredging operation on the upper Hudson River in New York."
"A U.S. federal jury acquitted a former BP Plc executive on Friday of lying about how much oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010, according to lawyers on both sides of the case."
Despite early headlines, an EPA study on the impact of fracking on drinking water offered both sides ammunition.
"An 8-year-old boy falls into one of Mexico’s most contaminated rivers. Eighteen days later, he’s dead. Fusion investigates how factories--many of them U.S. owned--get away with illegally dumping toxic chemicals into one of the country’s main waterways, with potentially deadly consequences."
"A landmark Environmental Protection Agency report on the impact of hydraulic fracturing has found no evidence that the contentious technique of oil and gas extraction has had a widespread effect on the nation’s water supply, the agency said Thursday."
"An oil pipeline that ruptured and spilled an estimated 383,000 litres (101,000 gallons) of crude near Santa Barbara in May had been allowed to corrode to a tiny fraction of its original thickness, federal regulators have said."
"The Obama administration is set to announce that it will require new rules to cut emissions from airplanes, expanding a quest to tackle climate change that has included a string of significant regulations on cars, trucks and power plants."
"A federal appeals court [Tuesday] rejected a series of challenges from states, environmental groups and energy companies to U.S. EPA's determinations of which parts of the country meet its standard for ozone, a main component of smog."
A recent study showed that nearly half of Delhi’s 4.4 million schoolchildren have irreversible lung damage from the poisonous air.
"ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Inside the National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory here, a mammoth contraption, with steel rollers, advanced electronics and exhaust tubes, is nearing completion."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[4] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast
[6] http://www.npr.org/2015/06/06/412335354/once-feared-now-celebrated-hudson-river-cleanup-nears-its-end
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bp-executive-acquitted-lying-about-gulf-mexico-oil-spill
[8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[12] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/05/us-usa-court-bp-idUSKBN0OL23020150605
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/both-sides-claim-victory-over-epa-fracking-study
[14] http://www.npr.org/2015/06/07/412633615/both-sides-claim-victory-over-epa-fracking-study
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/river-death
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/mexico
[17] http://interactive.fusion.net/river-of-death/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fracking-has-not-had-big-effect-water-supply-epa-says-noting-risks
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[21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california
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[25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/air
[26] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/transportation
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[32] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/asia
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[34] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-proposal-will-put-bigger-trucks-fuel-diet
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