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Heres How Electric Cars Will Cause the Next Oil Crisis
2016-02-25 13:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: With all good technologies, there comes a time when buying the alternative no longer makes sense. Think smartphones in the past decade, color TVs in the 1970s, or even gasoline cars in the early 20th century. Predicting the timing of these shifts is difficult, but when it happens, the whole world changes. Its looking like the 2020s will be the decade of the electric car. Battery prices fell 35 percent last year and are on a trajectory to make unsubsidized electric vehicles as affordable as...
Nuclear water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis
2016-02-25 09:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fish market vendor Satoshi Nakano knows which fish caught in the radiation tainted sea off the Fukushima coast should be kept away from dinner tables. Yet five years after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl there is still no consensus on the true extent of the damage -- exacerbating consumer fears about what is safe to eat. Environmentalists are at odds with authorities, warning the huge amounts of radiation that seeped into coastal waters after a powerful tsunami caused a meltdown...
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Lead Crisis: Flint plumber discovers poison pipes in his own house
2016-02-24 22:39:08| Waste Management - Topix.net
As the water crisis gripped Flint this winter, plumbers union official Harold Harrington was in the vanguard of those offering help, sending hundreds of tradesmen across the city to install filters and faucets for free, hand out lead-testing kits and inspect service lines. He was so busy coordinating the massive volunteer effort - and wielding a wrench himself - that he never got around to testing the water at his own home.
Flint water crisis prompts DEQ oversight proposal from Senate Democrats
2016-02-24 21:38:55| Waste Management - Topix.net
Citizen commissions would oversee air and water quality efforts of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality under legislation proposed by Senate Democrats Wednesday. "Air pollution is directly linked to an increase in heart and respiratory ailments, as well as a host of other health complications," said Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood, D-Taylor.
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South Africa's economy 'in crisis'
2016-02-24 14:54:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
South Africa's finance minister cuts growth forecast and says there is "no doubt the country is in crisis" ahead of his 2016 Budget speech.
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