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01.15.2009 9:01 pm

Federal regulation for toxic coal ash

Each year, U.S. power plants generate enough coal ash to fill 1 million railroad cars. It contains toxic metals — including  arsenic, lead, selenium and mercury — that can cause cancer and other serious health problems.
Individually, each of those toxins…

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06.24.2008 9:01 pm

Wednesday editorial: Global warming turns 20

calving1_opt.jpgTwenty years ago this week, a then-unknown NASA scientist named James E. Hansen ushered global warming from the realm of climatology into the hot house of public policy.
He did it in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, delivered…

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