Polluting The Poor In Alabama

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Polluting The Poor In Alabama This story first appeared in the June 17, 2012 issue of "Huffington." magazine for the iPad. To learn more about the magazine, visit huffingtonmagazine.com. Keystone XL Out Of U.S. Transportation Bill, Aide Says 15 Repeat Offenders: America's Polluted Beaches 2012 Wildfire Season Could Get Even Worse, Officials Warn Appeals Court Rejects Arguments Against New Offshore Wells Florida Struggles To Recover After Debby Moves On BLOG POSTS Bianca Jagger: 'The Future We Want' What Rio+20 has demonstrated is that we can no longer stand by and wait for world leaders to provide solutions to prevent us from reaching the tipping point, or point of no return. Alex Pasternack: New York's Giant, Beautiful New Park, Built Atop a Landfill, Makes New York City Millions Public parks don't tend to be cash cows, but the park that sits on top of the old Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island is different. It will be three times the size of Central Park and will sit atop 50 years of trash produced by five boroughs. Joaquin Sosa: The Summer Adventure of a Lifetime! During my last week of school this May, I got a surprise far better than good grades. A call from Sierra Club Headquarters in San Francisco confirmed that I had won the "Best Internship on Earth." Francesco Fiondella: Into the Heart of Dryness The ability to predict seasonal changes in rainfall and temperatures, if effectively applied, could be one of the best adaptation strategies to climate variability and climate change in the Sahel and across sub-Saharan Africa. Jane Alexander: Arctic Birds: Global Travelers at Risk in Rush to Drill Well, every story has conflict and conflict is raging in the Arctic now over oil and gas drilling. Enormous oil giants are lobbying furiously for the rights to drill in more and more places with fewer and fewer safeguards.

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