EPA Challenged By Louisiana Town Over Weak Protections, Environmental Injustice

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 EPA Challenged By Louisiana Town Over Weak Protections, Environmental Injustice Christine Bennett remembers her childhood days in Mossville, La., walking to and from school through an alley of industrial plants. Environmental Activists Being Killed At Alarming Rate Diplomats Agree On 'Weak' Text For Rio 20 Development Banks Vow $175 Billion For Clean Transport Enbridge Pipeline Leak Is Second Alberta Pipeline Spill In Two Weeks When Precisely Will The Summer Solstice Occur Tonight? BLOG POSTS Sigourney Weaver: Important Step Forward for World's Oceans I am thrilled to learn that the U.S. announced that we will join a number of other countries to fund an international partnership that supports ocean acidification monitoring. Ocean acidification is an urgent threat to our planet's ocean life. Frances Beinecke: At Rio 20 Earth Summit, Two Places Where World Leaders Should Start World leaders are arriving here in Rio to address some of the most daunting issues facing our planet. To be sure, the myriad problems we now face because we haven't taken more action to address global warming and sustainable development can seem daunting. Here's where to start. Jean Halloran: Meat on Drugs, Stop the Superbugs Some 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in this country are used not on people but on animals, to make them grow faster or to prevent disease in crowded and unsanitary growing facilities. Glen Martin: California's Selenium Time Bomb Keeps Ticking We need to get the Westside off the dole, and we need to retire seleniferous lands. Our two-headed trout and six-eyed ducks demand it. Billy Parish: On the Longest Day of the Year, Celebrate Solar Power! It is a beautiful day to get outside and celebrate the power plant that has kept our planet humming with life for the last 3.7 billion odd years. It's also the perfect day to celebrate what we're learning to do with the sun's power.

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