Environment
Michigan, Louisiana latest victims of oil, chemical spills
April 16, 2013April 1 was no joke in Lansing, Michigan, when equipment at a power plant malfunctioned and caused 300 gallons of oil to leak into the Grand River.
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Arkansas, Texas towns poisoned with pools of oil
April 12, 2013The rupture in the ExxonMobil-owned Pegasus pipeline, which sent a deluge of tarsands oil through the Arkansas town of Mayflower, is worse than previously thought.
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Sharp drop in mine deaths and injuries
April 10, 2013Deaths and injuries in the nation's mines, including its coal mines, fell in 2012 to some of their lowest recorded levels.
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Food News: A birthday, a time to march, a time to sow
April 4, 2013Did you know that every minute, we lose one acre of farmland to development? Or that since 1982, we've lost over 23 million acres of farmland?
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Arkansas oil spill paints town black, pipeline risks exposed
April 2, 2013Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured March 29, spewing thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude throughout the town of Mayflower, Ark.
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