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Flint, Michigan: Did race and poverty factor into water crisis?
2016-01-27 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan, has so outraged community advocates that they now pose a powerful question: Was the city neglected because it is mostly black and about 40% poor? Several advocates say yes. They charge that Flint residents are victims of "environmental racism" -- that is, race and poverty factored into how Flint wasn't adequately protected and how its water became contaminated with lead, making the tap water undrinkable. Flint water crisis: AG seeks to...
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America's climate refugee crisis has already begun
2016-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In the small town of Newtok, Alaska, a Yupik village of about 350 people, children once played on endless fields of frozen permafrost. Now, they splash in salt water pools and teeter on boardwalks as the permafrost below thaws and the Ninglick River chips away at the community. Soon even the boards will be swallowed by the rising tides. In 2017, it is projected that the highest point in Newtok - the school building - will be underwater. For these Alaskans, climate change is not just a global temperature...
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Hopes of a turnaround in Flint jeopardized by water crisis
2016-01-26 22:21:24| Automakers - Topix.net
Vehicles drive through downtown Flint, Mich., on Jan. 21, 2016. From its founding, Flint's fortunes essentially were entwined with a single industry.
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Subpoenas served to Snyder, MDEQ in class-action lawsuits filed in water crisis
2016-01-26 13:49:34| Waste Management - Topix.net
Subpoenas for records were served to Gov. Rick Snyder, the governor's office and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality on Jan. 25. The records include emails, text messages or other documents sent or received by Snyder, his staff, or the emergency managers Darnell Early, Michael Brown, Gerald Ambrose or Edward Kurtz relating to the Flint River as a water source from Jan. 1, 2011 to the present. One of the lawsuits was filed in a federal court in November.
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Calif.'s Massive Methane Leak Highlights Crisis Across U.S.
2016-01-26 04:07:45| Energy - Topix.net
Activists stage a protest outside the Environmental Protection Agency January 15, 2016, in Washington, DC. Activists urged the EPA to shut down operations of Southern California Gas Company's Aliso Canyon storage facility, which has been leaking huge amount of methane, sickening residents in the neighboring Porter Ranch, California.
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