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Coal Ash is So Safe, I’d Eat it on Cereal, Doctor Says

Arsenic has been a known poison for centuries – in fact, it was often used as a murder weapon during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It causes cancer of the skin, lungs, bladder and kidney as well as symptoms like violent bowel pain, bloody vomit, convulsions, delirium, and death.
Yet according to the GOP’s star [...]

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Wild Dogs Turn Green After Eating Toxic Waste

It’s bizarre, to say the least: a pack of wild dogs in Russia, which previously had reddish fur, are suddenly emerald green after supposedly consuming toxic waste that had been dumped in the area. Photos and video show the animals, thought to be former guard dogs, sporting green-tinged fur.
From NineMSN.com:
“Either local residents or a factory [...]

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Potty-Trained Pigs – Solution to Farming Pollution?

Livestock waste is a major source of pollution, draining from farms into waterways and contaminating water sources. But what are farmers to do – train their pigs to relieve themselves in litter boxes?
It sounds crazy, but that’s exactly what one Taiwanese farmer did with his hogs, and he’s advocating that others do the same.
From Treehugger:
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The World’s Dirtiest Power Plants

Virtually all power plants burning fossil fuels release insane amounts of pollution into the atmosphere – but some are definitely dirtier than others. And if you live in the Southeast United States, you’re practically surrounded by dozens of the world’s biggest carbon offenders.
Forbes has a new interactive map that lets you see where the world’s [...]

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Robot Seeks Out Toxic Waste Dumped by the Mafia

The mafia is going to have to rethink dumping toxic waste into Italian waters now that there’s a robot submarine on their trail. Italian authorities have deployed the underwater surveillance robot to a shipwreck off the Calabrian coast to see if it’s loaded with radioactive waste. An informant has told police that the ship may [...]

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch Researchers Find Even More Plastic than Expected

Scientists with ‘Project Kaisei’, who spent three weeks gathering plastic debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, returned to the Bay Area this week with a rather horrifying sample of the trash that can be found floating in the ocean.
Chunks of styrofoam, cracked patio chairs, bleach bottles, tangled nets and old toys were among the [...]

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