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A tale of two Earth Day heroes: Tim DeChristopher and Sandra Steingraber
2013-04-21 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Earth Day, oddly, has never been a huge deal for me. Im just a little too young to really remember its remarkable debut in 1970, when one American in 10 went out in the streets to demand action on clean air and water. That unprecedented activism laid the groundwork for the swift passage of legislation, and the almost-as-swift rehabilitation of lakes and rivers. But in the years after, many Earth Day celebrations drifted in a slightly more corporate direction; there wasnt anything wrong with them,...
Sandra Steingraber: Next 12 Steps to Stop Fracking in New York
2013-01-28 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: 1. I am writing you from an airport in Wisconsin. People here, and across the river in Minnesota, are trying desperately to halt the strip mining of their communities for frac-sand. Trucks are rolling. Silica dust is flying. Hill by hill, bluff by bluff--the land itself is shoveled into railcars and shipped off to the gas fields of America where grains of silica sand are shot into the cracks of fractured bedrock so methane can flow out of it. Whats left behind in Wisconsin and Minnesota are...
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