Reality Check I’m still haunted by the CNN report about Mossville, Louisiana. Here’s the bullet: A small economically-challenged town is surrounded by 14 chemical manufacturers – mostly chemicals used to manufacture plastics. To say that this is a cancer cluster is to put it mildly. In this report, a chemist reports her findings, verified by [...]
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Oil Addiction and Building Products
May 5, 2010 – 12:17 pm
time to revisit this conversation The only good thing to come from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a re-energized conversation about ending our addiction to oil. And, while Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil warns environmental advocates about exploiting the Gulf oil spill, I disagree. It’s not exploitation. It’s [...]