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...dike next to the Kingston coal plant in the Tennessee Valley and blanketed several hundred acres of land, destroying nearby houses. The accident - which released 100 times more waste than the Exxon Valdez disaster - has polluted the waterways of Harriman, Tenn., with potentially dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic and mercury, and left much of the town uninhabitable. (See TIME's special report on the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exposing the Myth of Clean Coal Power | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...recent years for his investigative work on the decidedly unsexy House Government Reform Committee. Even when Democrats were out of power, Waxman and his talented staff churned out some 2,000 headline-grabbing reports, blasting the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress on everything from faulty prewar intelligence to arsenic in drinking water. When the Democrats regained control of the House and he took over the chairmanship of that panel in 2006, the headline of a TIME profile of Waxman described him as "The Scariest Guy in Washington." His operation is so respected that Obama picked longtime Waxman chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Battle of Congress Clout, Waxman Whacks Dingell | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Imagine if arsenic was found in the water supply,” Wagner said. “By measuring the amount of electricity produced by the modified Shewies, we may be able to directly detect the level of contamination...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bacteria Project Wins International Energy Award | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Environmentalists harbor no illusions about the Bush Administration. From a 2001 decision to weaken regulations on arsenic in drinking water to its antagonistic performance at last week's U.N. climate change talks in Bali, the White House has consistently opposed green goals. But Wednesday's move by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denying California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles was an unpleasant surprise, even by Bush standards. The announcement, made by EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, temporarily torpedoes state efforts led by California to drastically reduce CO2 emissions from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Clean-Air Slapdown | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...Heaven’s Gate Bros and Branch Davidian Hos: Get reimbursed for Kool-aid, purple squares of silk, and arsenic...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, Nicola C. Perlman, and Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 15 Parties We Can Have | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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