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01/20/2016 / By Chris Draper

Hormone holocaust: California cities begin filling drinking water with millions of pieces of plastic

It’s no secret that California is experiencing a major drought. In an effort to prevent further evaporation and keep the water clean, the sunshine state spent millions of dollars on dumping millions of plastic balls – and in turn, the hormone disrupting chemicals in those plastic balls – into California’s water supply. The Los Angeles […]

01/14/2016 / By Chris Draper

Offshore wind power under development to aid Fukushima recovery

The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe demonstrated that the risks attached to nuclear power far outweigh the benefits. As a result, many Japanese citizens are now in favor of using alternative forms of energy. In an ironic twist of fate, the Japanese government has now decided to subsidize offshore wind power to aid the Fukushima recovery. The […]

11/30/2015 / By Chris Draper

Six reasons to oppose nuclear power

Less than five years after the worst nuclear catastrophe to plague Japan, the country’s government has once again decided to push for nuclear energy. The Japanese government is restarting reactors throughout the country and hopes nuclear power will account for 20 to 22 percent of its total electricity supply by 2030. Reverting back to nuclear energy is […]

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