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"After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There's Little Action"

"You might think that everything would have changed for the chemicals industry on April 16, 1947. That was the day of the Texas City Disaster, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. A ship loaded with ammonium nitrate — the same chemical that appears to have caused the disaster last month in West, Texas — exploded. The ship sparked a chain reaction of blasts at chemical facilities onshore, creating what a newsreel at the time called "a holocaust that baffles description."

Source: NPR, 05/20/2013

Analysis: "Without Water, Revolution"

"This Syrian disaster is like a superstorm. It’s what happens when an extreme weather event, the worst drought in Syria’s modern history, combines with a fast-growing population and a repressive and corrupt regime and unleashes extreme sectarian and religious passions, fueled by money from rival outside powers — Iran and Hezbollah on one side, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar on the other, each of which have an extreme interest in its Syrian allies’ defeating the other’s allies — all at a time when America, in its post-Iraq/Afghanistan phase, is extremely wary of getting involved."

Source: NY Times, 05/20/2013

"Some of My Best Friends Are Germs"

"I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being."

Source: NY Times Magazine, 05/20/2013

"The Hunt for Endocrine Disruptors"

"Experts say Wisconsin lakes’ chemical cocktail likely similar to Minnesota's"

Source: Wisconsin Ctr for Investigative Reporting, 05/20/2013

"Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust"

"HASKELL COUNTY, Kan. — Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland. He struck an artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the surface every minute."

Source: NY Times, 05/20/2013

"A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit"

"WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River."

Source: NY Times, 05/20/2013

Chiefs Walk Out on State Dept. Keystone XL Consultation Meeting

"Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked out of a meeting with U.S. State Department officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Thursday May 16 in which the government was attempting to engage in tribal consultation over the Keystone XL pipeline."

Source: Indian Country Today, 05/20/2013

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"After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There's Little Action"

Analysis: "Without Water, Revolution"

"Some of My Best Friends Are Germs"

"The Hunt for Endocrine Disruptors"

"Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust"

"A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit"

Chiefs Walk Out on State Dept. Keystone XL Consultation Meeting

"Marine Daughter Seeks Dignity for 'Devil Dog Pups'"

"DOE Gives Green Light To Controversial Natural Gas Export Project"

"Remember When the IRS Targeted Environmental Organizations?"

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