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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

By the time Doty’s team parked its monitoring vans outside K-Solv for the first time on June 4, 2005, de Zavala’s log house had been leveled, and industrial facilities had replaced wooded prairies. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. But the agency didn’t fine or otherwise penalize K-Solv.

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Hope in the Midst of Despair - An Environmental Success Story

Green Market Oracle

During this time we made significant progress on a number of environmental fronts including asbestos, acid rain, DDT, open-air nuclear tests, endangered species, toxic waste, waste recycling, leaded gasoline, ozone, pollution, mercury emissions and SLCPs. Fish and Wildlife Services in Denver crushed six tons of illegal elephant ivory tusks.