Fertilizer that helps crops grow contains high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, and as these nutrients run off fields and urban areas into the Mississippi River they contribute to mass algae growth that steals oxygen from other aquatic life.
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There Leslie Rutledge — cough, cough — goes again
Rutledge continues to battle to protect greenhouse gas emissions. Cuz, federalism, or something.
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Rutledge touts her ‘achievements.’ Poor women might not cheer.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge lists her accomplishments in seeking another term. We see them in a different light.
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Real news: The end of science
The decimation of the EPA is but one of many dark examples of the lack of respect for science in the Trump administration.
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New Yorker’s Jane Mayer chronicles complaints of Koch pollution in Crossett
Residents have long complained about pollution from the Koch Industries-owned Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Crossett and they now have some powerful new attention from The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, who’s written a book about the Kochs, and a new documentary film, “Company Town.”
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State moves to comply with EPA Clean Power Plan
The state of Arkansas indicated it will move to complay with federal Clean Power rules to reduce dangerous emissions from power plants, though continue to fight to reduce the cost on power companies.
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American Bridge releases report on Koch brothers’ environmental impacts and layoffs
American Bridge, the liberal PAC formed by David Brock, the former Clinton foe now dedicated to round-the-clock Hillary Clinton defender, is out today with a new report on environmental impacts and layoffs from Koch Industries. The report focuses on the business activities of the Koch brothers — more famous for hundreds of millions in political spending aimed at slashing government services, regulation and taxes — in twelve states, including Arkansas. From the report: “The Kochs’ extreme, self-serving agenda is bad for working families. And that reality is starkly embodied not only by their political persuasions, but by their business endeavors.”
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The good old days of deregulation
Ernie Dumas this week recalls his idyllic youth in Union County, bobbing a cork for panfish, but taking care to avoid the oil-industry polluted waters in the days before government environmental regulation cleaned them up.
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Lincoln: Yay for fewer regulations!
Blanche Lincoln pens an op-ed calling for fewer environmental regulations.
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Shale watch: Where are the regulators?
Good report from Channel 4 on a Van Buren County man, Dennis Brummett, concerned about leaks from a containment pond holding gas drilling waste.