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Daily Archives: August 31, 2010
Connecting the Dots on TVA’s Coal Ash Disaster
John L. Wathen’s summarized comments on the dumping of coal ash on poor, mostly black Uniontown residents in Alabama’s Black Belt. It’s “clearly an environmental justice community where TVA transferred to the Kingston coal ash disaster. It was not cleaned up, simply moved to Uniontown, Alabama,” Wathen said. Complaints filed with Lisa Jackson, the director…
The Poorest Nation’s on Earth Also Tend to be the Most Religious
There is a correlation between religion and poverty, and in countries with more wealth, religion is considered important on average by less than half the population, according to Gallup’s latest poll on the subject. Religiosity is strongly related to per-capita income worldwide. In the poorest countries 95 percent of adults say religion is an important…
BP Reverses Course, Admits There’s Oil in Local Waters
Despite persistent denials from BP officials, thousands of pounds of weathered oil is being pulled from under the surface of Pensacola Bay every day, according to the Pensacola News Journal. “During more than a dozen interviews last week, BP officials and spokespeople for a number of government agencies working on the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill…
