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For 26 years, California-based oil giant Texaco (presently owned by Chevron) intentionally dumped over 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water into Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. Ecuadorian residents have been enduring the brunt of self-seeking, deliberate negligence; with its local populace needlessly suffering from cancers, miscarriages, and birth defects. Following its acquisition of Texaco in 2001, Chevron has been steadfastly deceiving the…
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Despite Republican criticism over the current administration’s lack of initiative, President Barack Obama has overcome many obstacles in his goal to provide a green, sustainable future for America. As today marks the one-year anniversary for the 44th U.S. President, he remains vigilant in the fight for ecological conservation and protection by increasing gas mileage standards; rewriting environmental policies set by…
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In 2008, the largest natural gas reservoir in North America was discovered underneath rural pastureland in Northwest Louisiana, also extending into the borders of Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas. Deposited approximately 150 million years ago, the gas accumulation is attributed to the gradual build-up of rich, organic largest-natural-gas-field-haynesville-uslime mud upon other layers of sediment. According to Gregory Kallenberg’s documentary, aptly titled Haynesville…
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A pan-European group of organizations have united together to bring about major developments in response to marine wildlife emergencies, dubbed EMPOWER. The cause will support wildlife rescue organizations, as well as veterinarians and scientists to work effectively with authorities in circumstances where many seabirds, marine mammals or marine turtles unexpectedly wash onto land with health crises. Many unintended, yet common situations such as oil or chemical spills, toxic algae…
