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DOT Issues Emergency Order for Stricter Standards to Transport Crude Oil by Rail

DOT Issues Emergency Order for Stricter Standards to Transport Crude Oil by Rail

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) yesterday issued an Emergency Order requiring all shippers to test product from the Bakken region to ensure the proper classification of crude oil before it is transported by rail, while also prohibiting the transportation of crude oil in the lowest-strength packing group. The fireball that followed the derailment and explosion […]

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    Bluefin Tuna Suffering From Heart Attacks Due to BP Gulf Oil Spill

    Bluefin Tuna Suffering From Heart Attacks Due to BP Gulf Oil Spill

    By Andy Rowell The fallout from the BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues. The oil giant is attempting to force the U.S. government to release evidence which BP says proves that the oil spill did much less damage than at first feared. According to the Financial Times, in filings to the U.S. court in New Orleans, […]

    Sea Shepherd Supporters Rally Worldwide Calling for End to Brutal Taiji Dolphin Hunts

    Sea Shepherd Supporters Rally Worldwide Calling for End to Brutal Taiji Dolphin Hunts

    To commemorate Valentine’s Day, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society brought the world’s love of dolphins to Japan’s doorstep to call for an end to the brutal and infamous hunts in Taiji, Japan’s killing cove. Led by Sea Shepherd chapters, peaceful “World Love for Dolphins Day” demonstrations were held Friday at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. […]

    Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill

    Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill

    Hear the latest on the 73 Olympic-size swimming pools worth of toxic sludge that Duke Energy dumped into North Carolina waterways starting Super Bowl Sunday in this Rachel Maddow interview with Michael Gerrard, professor of environmental law at Columbia University. Gerrard talks about a North Carolina federal investigation into this coal ash leak disaster. For more information […]

    Highly Contaminated Water Still Pouring Into Public Drinking Source on Dan River

    Highly Contaminated Water Still Pouring Into Public Drinking Source on Dan River

    [This is the fourth article in a four-part series. Read part one, read part two, read part three.] Waterkeeper Alliance and Yadkin Riverkeeper have obtained the results from a second round of water sampling on the Dan River in the wake of the third largest coal ash spill in recent U.S. history. Their results confirm that highly-contaminated […]

    4 Reasons the Sochi Olympics Are an Environmental Disaster

    4 Reasons the Sochi Olympics Are an Environmental Disaster

    By Kevin Mathews You may see a lot of gold, silver and bronze at the Olympics, but one color you definitely won’t see much of in Sochi is green. Years ago, Russia won its Olympic bid in large part by pledging to host the most environmentally friendly Games ever. Now, however, it’s clear that Sochi did not […]